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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - November 25, 2025 [Doof]

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It's almost Thanksgiving. Get yourself home any way you can!

The Tuesday night ONT is here. So glad you could make it.

How are your Thanksgiving planning and prepping efforts going? Doing anything unusual this year? Trying any new recipes? Expecting any nefarious guests? Tell us all about it!

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You Don't See This Every Day

Motorist in North Carolina tells 911: ‘I just had a bald eagle drop a cat through my windshield’

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A motorist in western North Carolina escaped injury when the carcass of a cat crashed into the passenger side of her front windshield along a highway near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

In a call to 911, the unidentified driver on U.S. Route 74 in Swain County, near Bryson City, told a dispatcher that a bald eagle dropped the cat. Bryson City is about 65 miles (104 kilometers) southwest of Asheville.

It’s not clear if the feline slipped from the eagle’s talons Wednesday morning or was discarded simply because the big bird didn’t have a taste for it.

“You may not believe me, but I just had a bald eagle drop a cat through my windshield,” the incredulous driver said on the recorded 911 call. “It absolutely shattered my windshield.”

Check out the whole thing. I wonder if this falls into the "we've seen a thing or two" bucket that one insurance company always mentions.

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ONT Video Segment

Chicken wings are literally Hitler?

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Young Morons!


Please tell me they only cook what they shoot themselves.

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Touche!

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Live from AOP's place?

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Who Among You Has a Vanvera?

Come on, fess up. One of you has a 17th century fart catcher in your possession.

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The vanvera was a strange accessory worn primarily by female aristocrats that allowed them to discreetly pass gas during social events.

The origins and history of the vanvera are shrouded in mystery; some sources claim it can be traced back to ancient Egypt, while others that it was inspired by Roman creativity, but there is no real evidence that this gas-muffling invention has its roots in ancient history. What everyone seems to agree on is that the vanvera was used by the aristocracy of that era, primarily women who could easily conceal it under their large, elaborate dresses.

The vanvera on display at the Sex Machines Museum in Prague consists of a leather pouch that connects to the wearer’s behind, muffling farts and containing the foul-smelling gases during social events. It can then be emptied in private by squeezing the pouch.

Guys would totally use this differently. "Dude, you shoulda smelled this one I ripped last night. Oh wait, I got it here in my vanvera - check it out!" {pooooofffff}

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DJ Doof - Guess the Theme (Easy Level) Edition


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Tonight's ONT brought to you by gratitude

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1 ❤️
Enter into His gates with thanksgiving,
And into His courts with praise.
Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.
For the Lord is good;
His mercy is everlasting,
And His truth endures to all generations.

Posted by: mindful webworker - nothing means anything at November 25, 2025 09:58 PM (LaTF/)

2 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 25, 2025 10:00 PM (lUFok)

3 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2025 10:00 PM (cYBz/)

4 Today I made cranberry sauce and the cornbread for dressing. Tomorrow is pie.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 25, 2025 10:01 PM (ys6FW)

5 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 10:01 PM (zZu0s)

6 Lost footage of Donald Trump’s 2004 SNl Sketch titled “Donald Trump’s House of Wings.”

This sketch is missing from SNL DVDs and streams.

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The left always has been childish is so many ways.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2025 10:01 PM (cYBz/)

7 Don't pick her up Forrest!

Posted by: Jenny at November 25, 2025 10:01 PM (41CYW)

8 I'm sure the girl had no problem getting a ride outta somebody.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 25, 2025 10:01 PM (uQesX)

9 11th!

Posted by: mot at November 25, 2025 10:01 PM (fIPNY)

10 I'm sure the girl had no problem getting a ride outta somebody.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 25, 2025 10:01 PM (uQesX)

Gas, grass, or that other thing!

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2025 10:03 PM (QMAsf)

11 Guys would totally use this differently. "Dude, you shoulda smelled this one I ripped last night. Oh wait, I got it here in my vanvera - check it out!" {pooooofffff}

You've completely ignored the potential for demonstrating impressive conflagrations.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2025 10:03 PM (Riz8t)

12 On that sequential blinker, if you put on the hazards and the blinker at the same time you'll have both sides going out from the center.

Was on a road trip with about 30 Mercury Cougars one time and they all did that going down the road.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 25, 2025 10:03 PM (lUFok)

13 So basically a muffler, for a human. Or if you're ballistic minded, a suppressor.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 10:04 PM (3uBP9)

14 The great thing about being Grandpa with NO culinary skills is all I am required to bring is an appetite.

Posted by: Some Rat at November 25, 2025 10:04 PM (TfUTr)

15 Hey everybody. Hey Doof. Hey ONT!

Motorist in North Carolina tells 911: ‘I just had a bald eagle drop a cat through my windshield’

That darn cat!

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 10:04 PM (xqw19)

16 I'd be ok if those boys cooked food they also obtained from trapping or fishing.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 25, 2025 10:04 PM (S/Y4j)

17 Sorry I'm late, I had to Polish the silverware for the big meal.

It will henceforth be known as silverwareski.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 25, 2025 10:04 PM (FVLcK)

18 Today I made cranberry sauce and the cornbread for dressing. Tomorrow is pie.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

Mixed my bread dough today - I'll bake tomorrow. AND! *trumpet flourish* I finally found a local hog farm that sells leaf lard. I can now die a happy man.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2025 10:04 PM (cYBz/)

19 That fort video brings back memories. Out at the fort until mom called us for lunch then back at the fort until dark.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at November 25, 2025 10:04 PM (31p00)

20 Good evening morons e grazie Disco

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 10:04 PM (9ipOP)

21 BSMary, I took care of pies today. Went to the local supermarket and bought two! And a cake! You could do that, too.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 25, 2025 10:05 PM (47diA)

22 Love the fort. Thanks for the ONT, Disco.

Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2025 10:05 PM (41CYW)

23 I'm sure the girl had no problem getting a ride outta somebody.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 25, 2025 10:01 PM (uQesX)

Gas, grass, or that other thing!
Posted by: Doof

Guys! She's a hippie! Crazy, dirty, and enough stds to scare off hunter biden.

Posted by: Some Rat at November 25, 2025 10:06 PM (TfUTr)

24 Eric Metaxas@ericmetaxas . 2h

@GenFlynn joins me to talk about the deep state, Pam Bondi, Sidney Powell, the seditious six, and why he believes Trump must move at the speed of war to bring real justice and fix our elections.

⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
(0:00) Intro
(0:43) General Michael Flynn Joins
(1:13) Pam Bondi And Justice Delay
(3:33) Deep State And Wrong People
(10:31) Seditious Six
(17:44) Obama, Russiagate, and Trump Duty
(24:25) Election Integrity And Speed Of War

https://tinyurl.com/26yhb3uy

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 25, 2025 10:06 PM (P9xGM)

25 Thanksgiving this year is going to be low-key. Kiddo is in Japan, so it's just me, hubs, and Mom.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 10:06 PM (r+pQK)

26 Am I first? No way!

Posted by: Nerd Herd at November 25, 2025 10:07 PM (NZPfR)

27 About that fort. Didn't every kid build a fort in the woods at the edge of town?

Posted by: clarence at November 25, 2025 10:08 PM (GE9Fw)

28 The great thing about being Grandpa with NO culinary skills is all I am required to bring is an appetite.
Posted by: Some Rat at November 25, 2025 10:04 PM (TfUTr)

I'd say something witty but I'm not talking to you. You know what you did!

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2025 10:08 PM (QMAsf)

29 We are on the road...visiting MIL(who is in AL), so will bring her to our hotel room for Thanksgiving...will do a turkey breast in the crockpot (have a huge refrig, a dishwasher and a microwave - but no stovetop or oven), and reheat sides that I prepped at home and will assemble and cook tomorrow at another family member's stove and oven...it's like the ultimate science project!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 25, 2025 10:08 PM (cCn4/)

30 Meow

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at November 25, 2025 10:08 PM (w3u3d)

31 I had an atari game, Journey Escape, where you play a band member trying to race to the scarab/space ship while dodging crazy fans and photographers. Songs from the album in 8bit form play the whole time.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 10:09 PM (3uBP9)

32 Ace, from an earlier thread:

"They claimed disco was dead, too. But it still lives on in garrett's heart."

He literally has a CoB nicknamed Disco, yet it's Garrett's heart that gets down with the groove.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 25, 2025 10:09 PM (FVLcK)

33 About that fort. Didn't every kid build a fort in the woods at the edge of town?
Posted by: clarence

Edge of town? Geez, that's 30 miles away!

Posted by: Some poor kid in LA at November 25, 2025 10:09 PM (TfUTr)

34 14 The great thing about being Grandpa with NO culinary skills is all I am required to bring is an appetite.
Posted by: Some Rat
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Whoa whoa, I heard about a hotplate and a can opener. Stand tall, chef.

Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2025 10:10 PM (41CYW)

35 3 Good evening good people.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2025 10:00 PM (cYBz/)

Good evening to you, Tonypete. Thank you for the warm greetings.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 25, 2025 10:10 PM (FVLcK)

36 With that rig and that area, I would always suggest starting in the middle and spiraling outward, finishing off by running the edges.

Then, of course you can lower the height of the blades, and carve a big H in the middle so helicopters might land!

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 10:10 PM (rbvCR)

37 "They claimed disco was dead, too. But it still lives on in garrett's heart."

He literally has a CoB nicknamed Disco, yet it's Garrett's heart that gets down with the groove.
Posted by: tankdemon

Saw that, almost filed a formal complaint.

Posted by: Some Rat at November 25, 2025 10:10 PM (TfUTr)

38 Anyone who has owned a Mercury Cougar or an old Tbird has had to fool with that turn signal system. It can mess up your brake lights too

Fortunately there is a plug in sold state replacement nowadays.

Posted by: I M Simpleton at November 25, 2025 10:10 PM (KPAbF)

39 Remember when SNL was funny? About a quarter century before that clip.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 25, 2025 10:10 PM (3nLb4)

40 Sorry I'm late, I had to Polish the silverware for the big meal.

It will henceforth be known as silverwareski.
Posted by: tankdemon
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Silverware!!! Darn, I knew I'd forget something...do you deliver Tankdemon?

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 25, 2025 10:11 PM (cCn4/)

41 Gas, grass, or that other thing!
Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2025 10:03 PM (QMAsf)

Comic book?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 25, 2025 10:11 PM (uQesX)

42 Boulder to Birmingham is one of my favorite songs of ever and always.

Posted by: huerfano at November 25, 2025 10:11 PM (98kQX)

43 ...consists of a leather pouch that connects to the wearer’s behind...containing the foul-smelling gases during social events. It can then be emptied in private by squeezing the pouch.

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So kind of like the Ghost Trap that the Ghostbusters used to capture ghosts and empty them into the containment facility later?

Posted by: TRex - keymaster dino at November 25, 2025 10:12 PM (cCn4/)

44 The lawn mowing incident would have been funnier if the mower had been an old Sears push mower and she had to pull the starter cord twenty times.

Posted by: clarence at November 25, 2025 10:12 PM (GE9Fw)

45 Whoa whoa, I heard about a hotplate and a can opener. Stand tall, chef.
Posted by: scampydog

Sigh, no one wants canned chili at Thanksgiving....or shredded wheat.

Posted by: Some Rat at November 25, 2025 10:13 PM (TfUTr)

46 We are on the road...visiting MIL(who is in AL), so will bring her to our hotel room for Thanksgiving...will do a turkey breast in the crockpot (have a huge refrig, a dishwasher and a microwave - but no stovetop or oven), and reheat sides that I prepped at home and will assemble and cook tomorrow at another family member's stove and oven...it's like the ultimate science project!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 25, 2025 10:08 PM (cCn4/)

Sounds awesome! Elder son of mine and I did something similar a few years ago. First Thanksgiving without the lovely late Mrs. Doof. Younger son was overseas doing his gap year thing. The 2 of us traveled to Lexington for several days. Did some stops on the Bourbon Trail. Went to the UK vs Louisville game. We made Thanksgiving dinner before we left MD and heated it up in the hotel. Watched hockey and college football and basketball, played cards, and drank bourbon. Was a fantastic time!

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2025 10:13 PM (QMAsf)

47 If those young men who built the fort live in California, I certainly hope they had the proper permits and inspections prior to beginning construction’

Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at November 25, 2025 10:14 PM (ZTJjv)

48 Meow
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at November 25, 2025 10:08 PM (w3u3d)

The one that got away!

Posted by: The Eagle at November 25, 2025 10:14 PM (uQesX)

49 Ace, from an earlier thread:

"They claimed disco was dead, too. But it still lives on in garrett's heart."

He literally has a CoB nicknamed Disco, yet it's Garrett's heart that gets down with the groove.
Posted by: tankdemon at November 25, 2025 10:09 PM (FVLcK)

That's cute that you think Ace actually knows who I am.

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2025 10:14 PM (QMAsf)

50 I knew a guy with a Datsun station wagon. A warning message, for the lights or keys or something was on a little record that was played by a system needle, then set up again. Something like this:

youtu.be/6hJBko3-oV4

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 10:15 PM (3uBP9)

51 >>Remember when SNL was funny? About a quarter century before that clip.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 25, 2025 10:10 PM

I remember when everyone thought it was funny because they were high. Looking back, it wasn't really.

Posted by: huerfano at November 25, 2025 10:15 PM (98kQX)

52 You know, I stripped apart a '67 Cougar back in the late '70's. I don't recall a motor-driven cam stepper like that. I seem to remember a module with a bunch of relays.

There is something about that wiring in the image that doesn't look like typical FoMoCo wiring practice.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 10:15 PM (npFr7)

53 29 We are on the road...visiting MIL(who is in AL), so will bring her to our hotel room for Thanksgiving...will do a turkey breast in the crockpot (have a huge refrig, a dishwasher and a microwave - but no stovetop or oven), and reheat sides that I prepped at home and will assemble and cook tomorrow at another family member's stove and oven...it's like the ultimate science project!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 25, 2025 10:08 PM (cCn4/)
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This is how great memories are made. Enjoy!

Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2025 10:17 PM (41CYW)

54 I knew a guy with a Datsun station wagon. A warning message, for the lights or keys or something was on a little record that was played by a system needle, then set up again.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 10:15 PM (3uBP9)


Eddie Murphy did a bit about that. Was on his first album.
https://youtu.be/kMxdFwCU1OE

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2025 10:17 PM (QMAsf)

55 That's cute that you think Ace actually knows who I am.
Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2025 10:14 PM (QMAsf)

Well, he lets you have keys to the place. He has to know you. Maybe he just can't quit Garrett?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 25, 2025 10:18 PM (uQesX)

56 This is how great memories are made. Enjoy!
Posted by: scampydog
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We are considering introducing MIL to the concept of a Golden Birthday celebration!

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 25, 2025 10:18 PM (cCn4/)

57 I had a 67 Mercury Cruiser with tail lights like that . Had y do wish I still had it .

Posted by: Biggest Alfredo at November 25, 2025 10:18 PM (8cPKb)

58 Was talking to my son, and he told me his turkey recipe: honey, chili powder, sugar, pancake mix, caramel, cinnamon, pine nuts, etc. then you cook it at 250 for 8 hours.

I told him he forgot the liquid smoke.

"Oh yeah, liquid smoke is awesome."

Not sure I want him cooking dinner for us.

Posted by: Michael Bluth at November 25, 2025 10:19 PM (0aYVJ)

59 Guys! She's a hippie! Crazy, dirty, and enough stds to scare off hunter biden.
Posted by: Some Rat at November 25, 2025 10:06 PM (TfUTr)

Must be an Aussie hippie. She's hitching on the wrong side of the road.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 10:19 PM (npFr7)

60 When's the last time you saw someone hitching a ride?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 25, 2025 10:20 PM (pkeXY)

61 Must be an Aussie hippie. She's hitching on the wrong side of the road.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 10:19 PM (npFr7)

(Jump to top of page)

Nah, she'd be upside down.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 25, 2025 10:20 PM (uQesX)

62 Dumb ol' sock. You go squish now!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide at November 25, 2025 10:21 PM (0aYVJ)

63 Morning Tech Report: What do dancing vamps in their undergarments have to do with the question what is love? And what does any of that have to do with Tech Reporting?

Overnight Thread answers, Love is like a rock

mindful opines, love is just a Game of Thieves
https://youtu.be/7vQIceKPvHo?t=646

Posted by: mindful webworker - a long time ago when the hair was long and the fingers worked at November 25, 2025 10:22 PM (LaTF/)

64 We are considering introducing MIL to the concept of a Golden Birthday celebration!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba
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*Turns hat around. Retracts olive branch*

Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2025 10:22 PM (41CYW)

65 Silverware!!! Darn, I knew I'd forget something...do you deliver Tankdemon?
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 25, 2025 10:11 PM (cCn4/)

Do I look like an OB-GYN?

Posted by: tankdemon at November 25, 2025 10:22 PM (FVLcK)

66 61/ So she's in an UK country or Ireland? Other side of the road but not upside down?

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 25, 2025 10:22 PM (cCn4/)

67 With that rig and that area, I would always suggest starting in the middle and spiraling outward, finishing off by running the edges.

Then, of course you can lower the height of the blades, and carve a big H in the middle so helicopters might land!
Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 10:10 PM (rbvCR)

I usually mow the perimeter first, and spiral in towards the center. Break the yard up into random quadrangles, mow each one in turn, or mow the facing sides of two quadrangles, until the quadrangles become narrower than the gap between, and then do each one in turn.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 10:23 PM (npFr7)

68 Must be an Aussie hippie. She's hitching on the wrong side of the road.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Or the front is hideous.

Posted by: Some Rat at November 25, 2025 10:23 PM (TfUTr)

69 When's the last time you saw someone hitching a ride?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

I explained hitchhiking to my granddaughter once. She looked at me like I had three heads.

"You'd just stand on the side of the road, stick your thumb out and someone would stop and pick you up!!?"

Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2025 10:23 PM (cYBz/)

70 Tomorrow is pie.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
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Here too. I did make the crust today. Tomorrow will make apple, pumpkin, and a lemon tart.
Also dressing and corn pudding.

Posted by: lin-duh at November 25, 2025 10:23 PM (VCgbV)

71 Well, he lets you have keys to the place. He has to know you. Maybe he just can't quit Garrett?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 25, 2025 10:18 PM (uQesX)

I only have the valet key. I can't open the trunk or glove compartment. In M.C. parlance, I'm still a COB "prospect" - not a "full patch".

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2025 10:23 PM (QMAsf)

72 >>> There is something about that wiring in the image that doesn't look like typical FoMoCo wiring practice.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 10:15 PM (npFr7)


Every image and video on the internet has something close to a 60% chance of being flipped left/right from the original. I don't know why that is but I'm confident in the statistic.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 10:23 PM (3uBP9)

73 27 About that fort. Didn't every kid build a fort in the woods at the edge of town?

Not us. We played in the dump instead.

Posted by: The Neon Madman at November 25, 2025 10:24 PM (yNfcm)

74 Silverware!!! Darn, I knew I'd forget something...do you deliver Tankdemon?
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 25, 2025 10:11 PM (cCn4/)

Do I look like an OB-GYN?
Posted by: tankdemon
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Silverware Tankdemon...nothing else, just silverware...

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 25, 2025 10:24 PM (cCn4/)

75 And along comes Doof....
Slow walkin' sweet talkin' Doof...

Yeah...that's pretty bad...never mind🤪

Good to see ya darlin and a fine ONT it is 🎶🎶🎶

Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 25, 2025 10:25 PM (3pxDZ)

76 Posted by: mindful webworker - nothing means anything at November 25, 2025 09:58 PM

Great start!

Posted by: KT at November 25, 2025 10:26 PM (7vIsy)

77 That's cute that you think Ace actually knows who I am.

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2025 10:14 PM (QMAsf)

Ace can't quit Gabe and the Meatball. What makes you think he knows what's going on past 2018?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2025 10:27 PM (n9ltV)

78 We are considering introducing MIL to the concept of a Golden Birthday celebration!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba
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*Turns hat around. Retracts olive branch*
Posted by: scampydog
*****
Now, now...it's Thanksgiving week...we won't even mention your name, and I guarantee you she will look at me like she has no idea what I am talking about, lol....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 25, 2025 10:27 PM (cCn4/)

79 And along comes Doof....
Slow walkin' sweet talkin' Doof...

Yeah...that's pretty bad...never mind🤪

Good to see ya darlin and a fine ONT it is 🎶🎶🎶
Posted by: COMountainMarie at November 25, 2025 10:25 PM (3pxDZ)

A for effort! Good to see you too - thanks for always having kind words for me!

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2025 10:27 PM (QMAsf)

80 51 >>Remember when SNL was funny? About a quarter century before that clip.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 25, 2025 10:10 PM

I remember when everyone thought it was funny because they were high. Looking back, it wasn't really.
Posted by: huerfano at November 25, 2025 10:15 PM (98kQX)

It was live and there wasn't much counter culture targeted programming in 1975. And they poked fun at everybody.

Posted by: Joemarine at November 25, 2025 10:27 PM (y171U)

81 I only hitchhiked once. It was when I worked in Yellowstone, and was transferring from Canyon Village to Lake Hotel after Canyon closed for the season. I was five miles down the road, heading to the Hayden valley where all the buffalo hang out. Finally I got a ride. Turns out it was a line cook who was also heading to Lake Hotel.

I never hitched again. And now that I think about it, why did my luggage get delivered but I didn't? The hell?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide at November 25, 2025 10:28 PM (0aYVJ)

82 "Please tell me they only cook what they shoot themselves."

Shoot? No, they just need a rabbit stick ... throw it and knock the rabbit out (or kill it outright). I've actually tried that briefly, and came close a few times. Just a solid ~1' x 2" solid stick ... thrown hard at a rabbit, it would stop them. Or maybe that is some Indian trick, idk where I learned it. Maybe in my brief "Tracker School".

Posted by: illiniwek at November 25, 2025 10:28 PM (vbXSk)

83 "You'd just stand on the side of the road, stick your thumb out and someone would stop and pick you up!!?"
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And chances were, you *wouldn't* be harmed. Those were the days...

Posted by: JQ at November 25, 2025 10:29 PM (rdVOm)

84 The pic on top - the redhead hitchhiking - takes me back to my yoot.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2025 10:29 PM (s0JqF)

85 Every image and video on the internet has something close to a 60% chance of being flipped left/right from the original. I don't know why that is but I'm confident in the statistic.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 10:23 PM (3uBP9)

I was thinking wire color and terminals just don't look "Ford" to me. I'm wondering if that motor stepper was some sort of aftermarket gadget built to replace an unreliable OEM solid-state module?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 10:29 PM (npFr7)

86 That's cute that you think Ace actually knows who I am.
Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2025 10:14 PM (QMAsf)
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Well, he lets you have keys to the place. He has to know you. Maybe he just can't quit Garrett?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 25, 2025 10:18 PM (uQesX)

Brokeback Blog.

Wait, I post here.

Posted by: RickZ at November 25, 2025 10:30 PM (gKDq2)

87 >>> When's the last time you saw someone hitching a ride?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 25, 2025 10:20 PM (pkeXY)


In the early 90s. I was driving to work late night, stopping at an intersection, and this chick suddenly comes up and asks for a ride home. My back seat was full of camping gear from the weekend that I hadn't cleared out. She asked what that stuff was in a quiet, "are you an axe murderer voice". Oh, that's just camping stuff, so where am I taking you, I got 10min to get to work. She told me and I dropped her off at a house then sped to work.

I think about her occasionally. I hope she makes better decisions.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 10:30 PM (3uBP9)

88 I come from a law enforcement family and there was one absolute rule: no hitchhiking. No putting out your thumb and no stopping to pick up someone. They went to extremes to emphasize this rule, and it's probably the only rule I never considered breaking...

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 25, 2025 10:31 PM (cCn4/)

89 Silverware Tankdemon...nothing else, just silverware...
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 25, 2025 10:24 PM (cCn4/)

Grandpa made sure everything got split evenly in the will, so each of us grandkids only got enough silver for one place setting, so I really don't have any to spare.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 25, 2025 10:31 PM (FVLcK)

90 If you have to fart, fart! You will feel much better for it.

Posted by: Mao at November 25, 2025 10:32 PM (6KcYW)

91 Vanvera is no marketing strategy.

What about the Big Bag O' Farts?

Posted by: Ron Popeil at November 25, 2025 10:32 PM (JkO4W)

92 I think about her occasionally. I hope she makes better decisions.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 10:30 PM (3uBP9)

Dude...how was her rack?

Sometimes I despair for you Morons!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2025 10:33 PM (n9ltV)

93 About that fort. Didn't every kid build a fort in the woods at the edge of town?
Posted by: clarence
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And, really shakey treehouses. I'm amzed that none of never plunged to an early demise.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 25, 2025 10:33 PM (XeU6L)

94 Hitched from college in Wisconsin to Chicago. Twice. Survived.

Hitched to Iowa to visit an ex-girlfriend. Bad idea, but not because of the hitching.

https://youtu.be/NdYWuo9OFAw

G'nite for now, y'all. Things to do for Thursday.

Posted by: mindful webworker - it was a different age at November 25, 2025 10:33 PM (LaTF/)

95 88 I come from a law enforcement family and there was one absolute rule: no hitchhiking. No putting out your thumb and no stopping to pick up someone. They went to extremes to emphasize this rule, and it's probably the only rule I never considered breaking...
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 25, 2025 10:31 PM (cCn4/)

The hitchhiker is most likely to die rather than the driver by a ratio of 3 to 1.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 25, 2025 10:34 PM (6KcYW)

96 "...The vanvera on display at the Sex Machines Museum in Prague..."

Ok. I understand the need for a fart catcher in Victorian England. What I don't understand is how it ended up in a Sex Machines Museum.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 25, 2025 10:35 PM (0CU3H)

97 Ok. I understand the need for a fart catcher in Victorian England. What I don't understand is how it ended up in a Sex Machines Museum.
Posted by: Darrell Harris

The kink exhibited in the Universe is unlimited.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2025 10:36 PM (cYBz/)

98 >>> Dude...how was her rack?

Sometimes I despair for you Morons!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2025 10:33 PM (n9ltV)


I don't remember much, and I was dog tired. That was my second job on top of college courses which I wasn't doing great at. Little sleep. No money. Sometimes no where to live. I was basically running on autopilot those days.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 10:37 PM (3uBP9)

99 Before I had a car I hitchhiked with a surfboard to the beach almost every day.

Had a few real skeevy rides where I had to insist being let out at the next corner. Lots of creeps out there, even in the early 70s.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2025 10:37 PM (JkO4W)

100 Good choice on the Donnie Iris, Doof.

Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2025 10:37 PM (41CYW)

101 I'm out...tomorrow is massive assemble and bake day...good night all....

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 25, 2025 10:37 PM (cCn4/)

102 Fortunately there is a plug in sold state replacement nowadays.
Posted by: I M Simpleton
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Not so sure about that. The Made in China solid state flasher that replaced the 15 year old thermal flasher in my S-10 did not last one year. I actually packed it up and mailed it to The AutoZone customer service people. Never heard anything from them.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 25, 2025 10:38 PM (XeU6L)

103 Hitchiker- Thanks for picking me up, though I'm surprised you stopped. For all you know, I could be a serial killer.

Driver- I don't think that's very likely. The odds against two serial killer riding in the same car are astronomical.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 25, 2025 10:39 PM (FVLcK)

104 Guys would totally use this differently. "Dude, you shoulda smelled this one I ripped last night. Oh wait, I got it here in my vanvera - check it out!" {pooooofffff}

You've completely ignored the potential for demonstrating impressive conflagrations.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2025 10:03 PM (Riz8t)

Ok, next Texas MOME guys, everyone bring your vanvera!

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 25, 2025 10:40 PM (nbLIj)

105 >>> Ok. I understand the need for a fart catcher in Victorian England. What I don't understand is how it ended up in a Sex Machines Museum.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 25, 2025 10:35 PM (0CU3H)


I guess because she had to keep it shoved up her wazoo.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 10:40 PM (3uBP9)

106 95 The hitchhiker is most likely to die rather than the driver by a ratio of 3 to 1.
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 25, 2025 10:34 PM (6KcYW)

Twilight Zone episode..."I believe you're going...my way?"

Posted by: Joemarine at November 25, 2025 10:40 PM (y171U)

107 There is a third option. The Bald Eagle thought it would be cool to drop the cat on the car. Just like every damn bird in my neighborhood sits on tree limbs silently smirking and trading side-eyes as I wash and wax my car.

And, yeah...fart catcher. Sure, why not. BUT, I'm more interested in the fact that there is an actual Sex Machines Museum in Prague.

Posted by: Orson at November 25, 2025 10:41 PM (dIske)

108 Hitched from college in Wisconsin to Chicago. Twice. Survived.
Hitched to Iowa to visit an ex-girlfriend. Bad idea, but not because of the hitching.
https://youtu.be/NdYWuo9OFAw
G'nite for now, y'all. Things to do for Thursday.
Posted by: mindful webworker - it was a different age at November 25, 2025 10:33 PM (LaTF/)


I thought you were going to post this one

youtu.be/QAxEJ67MIH4

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 10:41 PM (rbvCR)

109 Doof, re Donald's House Of Wings:

There's actually a hot dog place in Chicago that's well know, called The Wieners Circle. Their 'specialty' is that their servers are really rude and insulting. Strange thing to be proud of. But at least the hot dogs are really good.

Anyway, I was reading about them last week. They obviously *hate* Trump and are always putting nasty jokes about him on their outside sign, but aren't above making money off him. They have a specialty, Trump Footlong Hot Dogs. (They're each three inches long.)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 10:42 PM (xqw19)

110 104 Guys would totally use this differently. "Dude, you shoulda smelled this one I ripped last night. Oh wait, I got it here in my vanvera - check it out!" {pooooofffff}

You've completely ignored the potential for demonstrating impressive conflagrations.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2025 10:03 PM (Riz8t)

Ok, next Texas MOME guys, everyone bring your vanvera!
Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 25, 2025 10:40 PM (nbLIj)

Vanvera > Vuvuzela

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 25, 2025 10:42 PM (0CU3H)

111 The pic on top - the redhead hitchhiking - takes me back to my yoot.
Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2025 10:29 PM (s0JqF)

I don't know why but I never pictured a commenter named Eeyore as a winsome redhead lass. More like a 29 year old.

Disclaimer - The term "youth" is generally considered a gender-neutral term for a young person. While it can refer to both males and females, the traditional feminine counterparts are "damsel" or "maiden," which are now considered archaic. In modern usage, "youth" is the most common and appropriate term to refer to any young person, regardless of gender.
Deep Gyan an internet genius

Posted by: Pete Bog at November 25, 2025 10:42 PM (CF1xw)

112 The kink exhibited in the Universe is unlimited.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2025 10:36 PM (cYBz/)

"I am not kink shaming, I am Kink asking why?"

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 10:43 PM (rbvCR)

113 The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 25, 2025 10:08 PM

The science project sounds great! Don't forget plates, utensils, a sharp knife and olives with can opener if they're in a can.

Posted by: KT at November 25, 2025 10:43 PM (7vIsy)

114 I guess because she had to keep it shoved up her wazoo.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 10:40 PM (3uBP9)

I'm wondering how they managed to effect a good seal.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 10:43 PM (npFr7)

115 I knew a guy with a Datsun station wagon. A warning message, for the lights or keys or something was on a little record that was played by a system needle, then set up again. ----------

I had one of those in an 1985 810. It could be defeated by an ON/OFF switch in the console. When Car & Driver did a review of the car, they had a photo of the switch witha caption, 'There's a nagging lady that lives under thhis switch'. I wa so interested in the mechanism that I bought one off of Ebay. Still have it. Obviously, the tone arm indexes across to the proper message.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 25, 2025 10:44 PM (XeU6L)

116 Vanvera > Vuvuzela
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 25, 2025 10:42 PM (0CU3H)

The two could be combined...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 10:44 PM (npFr7)

117 Jesus, a fart bag. Fucking primitives.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 25, 2025 10:45 PM (snZF9)

118 Hello folks, happy Thanksgiving eve eve.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 25, 2025 10:45 PM (CHHv1)

119 Ok, next Texas MOME guys, everyone bring your vanvera!
Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 25, 2025 10:40 PM (nbLIj)

You guys have fun. I'm out. Too much methane for open flames.

Posted by: Pete Bog at November 25, 2025 10:45 PM (CF1xw)

120 107 There is a third option. The Bald Eagle thought it would be cool to drop the cat on the car. Just like every damn bird in my neighborhood sits on tree limbs silently smirking and trading side-eyes as I wash and wax my car.

And, yeah...fart catcher. Sure, why not. BUT, I'm more interested in the fact that there is an actual Sex Machines Museum in Prague.
Posted by: Orson at November 25, 2025 10:41 PM (dIske)

A few years ago, we were in NYC to have lunch with a friend of my wife's at the Ritz Carlton in the Flatiron District. Afterwards, my son and I stepped out to check out the neighborhood while my wife stayed behind to catch up. Going down 5th Avenue, we passed the Museum of Sex on our way to the Museum of Mathematics just around the corner on the same block.

As Cindy Adams would say in the NY Post, "Only in New York, kids. Only in New York."

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 25, 2025 10:45 PM (0CU3H)

121 TV and pron would have American men believe women's, uh, 'down there' chamber is as roomy as a VW Bus.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 10:46 PM (xqw19)

122 And like a picture she was layin there

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 25, 2025 10:46 PM (gbOdA)

123 Good choice on the Donnie Iris, Doof.
Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2025 10:37 PM (41CYW)

Glad you appreciate it!

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2025 10:46 PM (QMAsf)

124 I had one of those in an 1985 810. It could be defeated by an ON/OFF switch in the console. When Car & Driver did a review of the car, they had a photo of the switch witha caption, 'There's a nagging lady that lives under thhis switch'. I wa so interested in the mechanism that I bought one off of Ebay. Still have it. Obviously, the tone arm indexes across to the proper message.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 25, 2025 10:44 PM (XeU6L)

A Chatty Cathy doll, with a motor-driven skeleton hand to pull the string...now that would be cool.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 10:46 PM (npFr7)

125 >>> The two could be combined...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 10:44 PM (npFr7)


Like bagpipes, of a sort.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 10:47 PM (3uBP9)

126 113/Thanks KT...have plates, utensils, sharp knife, tablecloth, napkins, decorations, as well as a turkey breast, stuffing, corn pudding, sweet potato casserole, and zinfadel cranberry relish - and apple pie ala mode. But no olives. Please don't tell TRex, he will be most disappointed.

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 25, 2025 10:47 PM (cCn4/)

127 Darrell:
wait 'til you see the Museum of Sex Gift Shop...

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 10:48 PM (xqw19)

128 What, so the toot smell stays in a porous leather bag? Sure it does.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2025 10:48 PM (OoFl2)

129 Doof, I'm going down to the big southern county of Oklahoma to visit number two son and family. I think I may be the nefarious guest!

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 25, 2025 10:48 PM (47diA)

130 SNL had 3 peaks, each a little bit lower. First of course was the original cast - Akroyd, Belushi, Bill Murray, Jane Curtain, Chevy Chase - Buck Henry was one of the writers and they could make you laugh til you had tears in your eyes every week. That wave faded out, it went flat .
But in ‘84 it built to a second peak with Jon Lovitz, Phil Hartman, Victoria Principal, Dana Carvey and others - a few more wonderful seasons til it faded again.
And the final high was the David Spade - Chris Farley - Norm McDonald era. After that, which was in the 90’s, it was never worth watching again.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 10:48 PM (ngbZu)

131 Thanksgiving dinner will be simple this year: I will join hubby at the nursing home. Probably will bring some cheese & crackers and onion dip.

I'll stay until he 'sundowns' and then go home & make that sloppy ol' bacon cheeseburger I've been craving!

Lovely holiday. 🤔

Posted by: JQ at November 25, 2025 10:48 PM (rdVOm)

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133 2/2

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Posted by: RickZ at November 25, 2025 10:49 PM (gKDq2)

134 Evening, folken. It's been a strange day.

I remember the sequential blinker lights on the mid-'60s Thunderbirds. Though I'd forgotten that the Cougar, Mercury's answer to the T-Bird, had them too. Didn't some other car companies offer them a little later?

Earlier this year we saw a Cougar, well-restored, outside a coffee shop/bakery in a suburban town near us. I knew what it was immediately, though I hadn't seen one since the late '90s in Denver. Black, with a red interior, it was amazing in its proportions and styling. The hood and trunk each seemed twice as long as a mid-size car today, and the vehicle was low to the ground -- though it hadn't been lowered as far as I know.

The owner said it was the first year, the 1967. Not the XR-7 model, the "sporty" one with the toggle switches on the dash like the Jaguar E-Type of those days.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2025 10:49 PM (wzUl9)

135 And like a picture she was layin there
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 25, 2025 10:46 PM (gbOdA)

It's a shame I won't be passin' through again

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2025 10:49 PM (QMAsf)

136 Tom Servo: agreed re SNL's two peaks.

But it was Victoria Jackson, not Victoria Principal (who was on Dallas).

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 10:49 PM (xqw19)

137 Like bagpipes, of a sort.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 10:47 PM (3uBP9)

"eat your fill of beans and Melbourne cabbage tonight, Lassie. We be playin' Scotland The Brave tomorrow."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 10:50 PM (npFr7)

138 There was some talk of fine dining at Panera Bread yesterday so . . .

https://is.gd/UrRViE

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 10:50 PM (L/fGl)

139 137 Like bagpipes, of a sort.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 10:47 PM (3uBP9)

"eat your fill of beans and Melbourne cabbage tonight, Lassie. We be playin' Scotland The Brave tomorrow."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 10:50 PM (npFr7)

"Now, let's eat, drink and be merry. For tomorrow we die."

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 25, 2025 10:51 PM (0CU3H)

140 But it was Victoria Jackson, not Victoria Principal (who was on Dallas).

But what about their racks?

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 25, 2025 10:51 PM (47diA)

141 What, so the toot smell stays in a porous leather bag? Sure it does.
Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2025 10:48 PM (OoFl2)

Hey there! Was REALLY hoping our resident fashion reporter would have some input.

OK, I didn't word that correctly.

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2025 10:52 PM (QMAsf)

142 LRob, they were interchangeable IIRC

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 10:52 PM (xqw19)

143 If anyone is close, there is room at our table for Thanksgiving!

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2025 10:52 PM (OoFl2)

144 130 SNL had 3 peaks, each a little bit lower. First of course was the original cast - Akroyd, Belushi, Bill Murray, Jane Curtain, Chevy Chase - Buck Henry was one of the writers and they could make you laugh til you had tears in your eyes every week. That wave faded out, it went flat .

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 10:48 PM (ngbZu)

Murray wasn't part of the "original" cast-- he was a writer season one and came on in season two after Chevy Chase left to make movies. (Foul Play, not exactly a comedy classic.) They got into a fight when Chase returned as a guess host.

But I concede that Murray is considered part of original glory days.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 25, 2025 10:53 PM (FVLcK)

145 SNL had 3 peaks, each a little bit lower. First of course was the original cast - Akroyd, Belushi, Bill Murray, Jane Curtain, Chevy Chase - Buck Henry was one of the writers and they could make you laugh til you had tears in your eyes every week. That wave faded out, it went flat .

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 10:48 PM (ngbZu)

I don't think Bill Murray was in the original cast. I think he joined the second season. I remember him on the show doing a riff about 'being the new guy'.

Posted by: RickZ at November 25, 2025 10:53 PM (gKDq2)

146 The owner said it was the first year, the 1967. Not the XR-7 model, the "sporty" one with the toggle switches on the dash like the Jaguar E-Type of those days.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2025 10:49 PM (wzUl9)

Cougar was initially a gussied-up Mustang on the Mustang platform. At some point in the mid '70's, it became a clone of the Thunderbird on the Thunderbird platform.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 10:54 PM (npFr7)

147 137 Like bagpipes, of a sort.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 10:47 PM (3uBP9)

"eat your fill of beans and Melbourne cabbage tonight, Lassie. We be playin' Scotland The Brave tomorrow."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 10:50 PM (npFr7)

golf clap!

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2025 10:54 PM (QMAsf)

148 141 What, so the toot smell stays in a porous leather bag? Sure it does.
Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2025 10:48 PM (OoFl2)

Hey there! Was REALLY hoping our resident fashion reporter would have some input.

OK, I didn't word that correctly.
Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2025 10:52

Can you just imagine trying to pretend you didn’t hear Lady McGillicutty honk like a goose during the Walz because she trusted this thing?

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2025 10:54 PM (OoFl2)

149 Tomorrow I have to work out, wash and gas up the car, and hit Walmart and another local chain grocery for just my usual supplies. We're going to a suburban restaurant on Thurs.. No need for things like large frozen barnyard birds.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2025 10:54 PM (wzUl9)

150 Probably didn't take a genius to look at the vanvera and think: "Wouldn't it be hilarious if I put a full one on someone's seat and they sat on it?"

Few people know that the original Whoopie Cushions were using live ammo.

Posted by: MartynWW at November 25, 2025 10:55 PM (+1tao)

151 Posted by: RickZ at November 25, 2025 10:49 PM (gKDq2)

King Harv is going to put you on a list. And not on a good list like Santa Claus.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 25, 2025 10:55 PM (FVLcK)

152 Evening all!

I hope everyone expecting snow this weekend stays warm. We have a cold front coming in tonight with strong winds. Yeck!

Posted by: Joyenz at November 25, 2025 10:55 PM (2F0/Y)

The Beastmaster Cafe

siberiantiger.jpg
R to L: A Siberian tiger, a scratching post, lunch

This better not be AI.

This astronomy is making me horny.

Grooming your doe, if you know what I mean.

Lion dad summons Chip.

A mama bear leads her troop of cubs through the snow.

Polar bear cub crawls all over mama.

Kitty's got claws.

Olivia Nuzzi just took a flea and tick bath.

Prairie dog yahoos to the chickens. Like Beastmaster's did. (Beastmaster actually had ferrets, I think, whom he called "my friends," but I don't have a ferret video so just play along and pretend he had a prairie dog. Sometimes a post's theme is like Olivia Nuzzi's metaphors -- it has to be forced.)

A bird, maybe an owl, camouflages itself as a log. I'm just glad it didn't reveal itself to be a spider.

Here's the Beastmaster training his dog to dance. (The Beastmaster had a dog, he just wasn't in the movie.)

Lion brothers fight over the bed.

Beastmaster definitely had a leopard. (Or a panther, though commenters have told me these are the same animal.) That one's right on the poster.

beastmastermoviephoto.jpg

Here's the trailer. They make a direct appeal to the Dungeons and Dragons set. I don't really remember the trailer. I do remember that it was on HBO after school, every single day, playing multiple times between 3 and 8. HBO used to reserve R-rated movies for night time and that meant the day was nonstop Beastmaster, Rocky III, Labyrinth, and then topped off by another airing of Beastmaster. Sometimes Beastmaster would come on right after If You Could See What I Hear, about some blind guy, and then you'd have Marc Singer double feature. Here's part one of that great movie.

This is claimed to be the best parts of Beastmaster. The best parts of Beastmaster are actually just "all of Beastmaster," thank you very much.

This was Don Coscarelli's follow-up to Phantasm. Odd move but I guess he just needed to tell the story of Dar.

Beastmaster only has three gears: Awesome, So Awesome You Wouldn't Even Believe It, and the highest gear, "Beastmaster."


Posted by: Ace at 07:20 PM




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1 The people on that Beastmaster poster look nothing like the real actors. And where are the ferrets?

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 07:22 PM (vZ7A2)

2 Ahhh... Tanya Roberts... yummm...

I'll be in my bunk...

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 07:22 PM (mP0Kj)

3 That’s a big pussy!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 25, 2025 07:23 PM (u73oe)

4 Evening all

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2025 07:25 PM (QtIaX)

5
Beastmaster looks more like Trump in that poster than Marc Singer.

Posted by: Soothsayer Shakes a Spear at You at November 25, 2025 07:26 PM (BihGC)

6 Where are the ferrets?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 25, 2025 07:26 PM (kd1a0)

7 That’s a big pussy!
Posted by: Duke Lowell



Poor Mrs. Slocumbe.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2025 07:26 PM (QtIaX)

8 Yes chickens are strange animals and we love them

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 07:27 PM (+qU29)

9 discussion of crab migration is making me itch

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 07:29 PM (rbvCR)

10 Never seen Beastmaster, but if it's from Don Coscarelli, I'm in!

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at November 25, 2025 07:29 PM (r+xel)

11 That’s a big pussy!
Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 25, 2025 07:23 PM

That's a big pussy!

Posted by: The Echo at November 25, 2025 07:29 PM (Wnv9h)

12 Jive-ass inflatable penguins are gonna wreck Christmas.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at November 25, 2025 07:29 PM (vFG9F)

13 Status of the mephitic bouquet left by 3 troops of penguins happy-footing through the Café recently: Pungent.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 25, 2025 07:29 PM (0sNs1)

14 My big tom is telling me it is time to feed him. He is like a black panther, but he only weighs 20 lbs

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 07:29 PM (rbvCR)

15 "Now THAT'S a big scratching post!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 25, 2025 07:31 PM (cjvQp)

16 Good evening, horde!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 25, 2025 07:31 PM (zYpTz)

17 Evening, Horde...How goes it?

Laundry is laundered, grades are graded, groceries are grocered, work is worked.

Nothing to do for the next few days except watch DVDs, play video games, read books, and eat too much food.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 25, 2025 07:31 PM (IBQGV)

18 Never seen Beastmaster, but if it's from Don Coscarelli, I'm in!
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at November 25, 2025 07:29 PM (r+xel)

=====

It's primo 80s camp.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 07:31 PM (Q9UqY)

19 "Black" tigers aren't all black, they just have wider black stripes.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 07:32 PM (8avO+)

20 Pretty sure Beastmaster and similar movies were an attempt to cash in on Conan the Barbarian's cult-popularity.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 25, 2025 07:32 PM (IBQGV)

21 Beastmaster looks more like Trump in that poster than Marc Singer.
Posted by: Soothsayer Shakes a Spear at You at November 25, 2025 07:26 PM (BihGC)

=====

Marc Singer and his sister Lori (Footloose) have the most beautiful eyes.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 07:33 PM (Q9UqY)

22 TJM, you still around?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 07:33 PM (77rzZ)

23 6 Where are the ferrets?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 25, 2025 07:26 PM (kd1a0)

Didn’t they sweep your apartment for bugs last week ?

Posted by: George Smiley at November 25, 2025 07:34 PM (TTAGa)

24 Went to town to get the mail. Thermometer in truck reads zero. "Oh, it warmed up? Oh, wait...(sees tiny "F")

But it shot all the way up to 3 on my return home.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 07:34 PM (npFr7)

25 Black" tigers aren't all black, they just have wider black stripes.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 07:32 PM (8avO+)

Missed a Westley Crusher sock opportunity

Posted by: Beartooth at November 25, 2025 07:35 PM (0714D)

26 Mmmmm, Tanya Roberts

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at November 25, 2025 07:35 PM (5yDGQ)

27 Hey, Perfessor! Hey, Dash!

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 07:35 PM (77rzZ)

28 This astronomy is making me horny.

Because it's a Mons?

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at November 25, 2025 07:35 PM (0sNs1)

29 Chickens have small gyroscopes embedded in their heads, leaving little room for brains.

Posted by: Chicken Facts at November 25, 2025 07:36 PM (vFG9F)

30 Olivia Nuzzi just took a flea and tick bath.

Looking forward to her 1,000-word essay on the subject.

Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2025 07:37 PM (mADJX)

31 I am positive I never saw a episode of You can see what I hear
Ever.

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 07:37 PM (+qU29)

32 If a Wesley Crusher could crush Wesleys, how many Wesleys could a Wesley Crusher crush?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 07:37 PM (npFr7)

33 Still watching AppleTV's Invasion. It is so bad that I guess I am hatewatching it at super speed. Apparently only Japanese Super Lesbian can save mankind. The greatest minds of the human race are no match for her "love".

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 25, 2025 07:38 PM (jc0TO)

34 12 Jive-ass inflatable penguins are gonna wreck Christmas. - Penguin Facts

They're actually real. And they're watching you.

Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2025 07:39 PM (mADJX)

35 I don’t have the mental stamina to read the rest of the comments, but there was a stand-up comic who had the joke that HBO stood for “Hey, Beastmaster”s on!”

Posted by: Hipster Ninja at November 25, 2025 07:39 PM (WeQvm)

36 Damn.... Ferrets were named Odo and Kodo weren't they?

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 07:39 PM (mP0Kj)

37 >>>I don’t have the mental stamina to read the rest of the comments, but there was a stand-up comic who had the joke that HBO stood for “Hey, Beastmaster”s on!”

Lol. It's funny because it's true.

Posted by: ace at November 25, 2025 07:40 PM (1wjle)

38 "But it shot all the way up to 3 on my return home.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon"

I hope this ice age talk is just that. I don't know if I could endure cold like that for months anymore. It was 83 here today.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 07:41 PM (vFG9F)

39 33 Still watching AppleTV's Invasion. It is so bad that I guess I am hatewatching it at super speed. Apparently only Japanese Super Lesbian can save mankind. The greatest minds of the human race are no match for her "love".
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 25, 2025 07:38 PM (jc0TO)

Japanese remake of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes?

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 07:41 PM (mP0Kj)

40 >>36 Damn.... Ferrets were named Odo and Kodo weren't they?

that rings a bell but I couldn't swear to it. but yeah, that sounds right.

Posted by: ace at November 25, 2025 07:41 PM (1wjle)

41 While I was out running errands today, I drove past Costco, hoping to dash in and get a pumpkin pie. Nope, parking lot was full, with cars cruising around looking for an empty stall.

Guess I'll have to make do with the emergency backup pumpkin pie I got at Walmart. It is a sad looking critter, perhaps made in China. I wonder how much lead and melamine is in it.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 25, 2025 07:41 PM (4mmkh)

42 Missed a Westley Crusher sock opportunity
Posted by: Beartooth

----------
If Wil Wheaton had been cast as the boy in Beastmaster, we all would have been cheering for him to be sacrificed.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at November 25, 2025 07:41 PM (5yDGQ)

43 "Black" tigers aren't all black, they just have wider black stripes.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 07:32 PM (8avO+)

IIRC the one in Beastmaster was dyed

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 07:42 PM (rbvCR)

44 >>> This astronomy is making me horny.
Because it's a Mons?

yes but also because it looks like big round boob with a nipple.

Posted by: ace at November 25, 2025 07:42 PM (1wjle)

45 The giant lizard is not cool.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 07:42 PM (A0sqA)

46 Penguins have been targeted by Sphenicidaphobes for the most preposterous and mentally twisted of reasons. Perhaps the most bizarre trigger of anti-Penguin sentiment is an untreated form of Asperger's syndrome manifesting itself in the constant repetition of the word “mephitic”.

In any event, these people are increasingly resorting to truly outrageous propaganda. For example:

https://tinyurl.com/5d7ztbj2

Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2025 07:42 PM (mADJX)

47 Beastmaster wasn't just on HBO...I remember seeing it crop up on other channels like WGN, TNT, or TBS (at least one of those) quite frequently.

I never bothered to watch it all the way through, though.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 25, 2025 07:43 PM (IBQGV)

48 Re Best parts of Beastmastrr

I see no mention of naked Tanya Roberts.

Gay!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 07:44 PM (zZu0s)

49 Yes chickens are strange animals and we love them
Posted by: Skip


Especially with fajita seasoning. Which I'm cooking right now.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2025 07:44 PM (QtIaX)

50 Kodo and Podo. One valiantly gave his life taking down one of those gimp monsters.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 07:45 PM (zZu0s)

51 Beastmaster looks more like Trump in that poster than Marc Singer.
Posted by: Soothsayer

Can't unsee it, now.

Posted by: mikeski at November 25, 2025 07:45 PM (nhCoE)

52 The giant lizard is not cool.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 07:42 PM (A0sqA)

Immediately after the clip ends, a little old lady starts whacking it with a broom, hollering, "You been here four hours! You go now!"

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 25, 2025 07:46 PM (4mmkh)

53 I have heard of this Wesley Crusher.

I would like to fight Wesley Crusher.

Posted by: Lt. Worf at November 25, 2025 07:46 PM (A0sqA)

54 The ferrets were good at sneaking and getting stuff like jail cell keys. Other than that they just stink up the place.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 07:46 PM (vFG9F)

55 I know I'm not supposed to be up in here.

You know I'm not supposed to be up in here.

Both of these are your problem.

Posted by: The Giant Lizard at November 25, 2025 07:48 PM (A0sqA)

56 You can't housetrain a ferret.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 25, 2025 07:48 PM (jc0TO)

57 Then at the end of the movie, circle of life.

Baby ferrets.

You done good, Lil buddy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 07:49 PM (zZu0s)

58 You can't housetrain a toby928(c).

Posted by: ferret at November 25, 2025 07:50 PM (9fYs9)

59 Look at the chompers on this guy!

https://is.gd/xXz6yS

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 07:50 PM (L/fGl)

60 You can't housetrain a ferret.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 25, 2025 07:48 PM (jc0TO)

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My sister had one that used a litterbox.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 07:50 PM (EzbKu)

61 You know, "Breastmaster" would be a great brand name for a line of bras for full-figured gals.

"It lifts, and agitates!"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 07:51 PM (npFr7)

62 You can't housetrain a toby928(c).
Posted by: ferret at November 25, 2025 07:50 PM

Harsh but fair.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 25, 2025 07:51 PM (jc0TO)

63 Ah, Wesley Crusher. The fellow who thinks I really believe pineapples grow on palm trees. Well, just to set the record straight, old boy, I raise pineapple plants as a hobby, so I know they don't grow on palm trees. What my fictional characters believe is another matter.

Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2025 07:51 PM (mADJX)

64 Ferrets were named Odo and Kodo weren't they?"

"All pilgrims have a love of life. Especially their own..."

Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 07:51 PM (XuXeR)

65 WTBS loved them some Beastmaster.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 25, 2025 07:52 PM (LjSYW)

66 You can’t rollerskate in a buffalo herd.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 25, 2025 07:52 PM (TbUYH)

67 My sister had one that used a litterbox.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 07:50 PM

How did she train it? The half dozen that I have known just didn't give a damn.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 25, 2025 07:52 PM (jc0TO)

68 "Black" tigers aren't all black, they just have wider black stripes.
Posted by: Oldcat

IIRC the one in Beastmaster was dyed
Posted by: Kindltot

That's what happened to the schmuck who had to color it.

Posted by: and he's bleeding applying the dye of the tiger at November 25, 2025 07:52 PM (nhCoE)

69 AOP I laffed

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 07:52 PM (A0sqA)

70 we quoting Jim Croce now ?

Posted by: alpine_beer at November 25, 2025 07:53 PM (EH7ZV)

71 You can’t rollerskate in a buffalo herd."

Or tug on Superman's cape?

Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 07:54 PM (XuXeR)

72 Beastmaster looks more like Trump in that poster than Marc Singer.
Posted by: Soothsayer

Can't unsee it, now.
Posted by: mikeski at November 25, 2025 07:45 PM

Neither can I. 🤣

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2025 07:54 PM (Wnv9h)

73 Better turn this off
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 07:54 PM (+qU29)

74 I think the ferrets had more screen presence than Singer.

Posted by: Beartooth at November 25, 2025 07:55 PM (0714D)

75 we quoting Jim Croce now ?
Posted by: alpine_beer at November 25, 2025 07:53 PM (EH7ZV)

Now I have time in a bottle playing.

*sigh*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 07:55 PM (zZu0s)

76 Whenever you read the word "penguin", don't forget the '8 P's' we were taught as children:

Penguins push profuse pustulant pernicious polymorphicaly-perverse pestilence.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 25, 2025 07:55 PM (0sNs1)

77 You can’t rollerskate in a buffalo herd.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 25, 2025 07:52 PM

But you could hang in a buffalo stance.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2025 07:55 PM (Wnv9h)

78 Ah, Wesley Crusher. The fellow who thinks I really believe pineapples grow on palm trees. Well, just to set the record straight, old boy, I raise pineapple plants as a hobby, so I know they don't grow on palm trees. What my fictional characters believe is another matter.
Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2025 07:51 PM (mADJX)
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Pineapples grow on pine trees, of course.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at November 25, 2025 07:55 PM (A0sqA)

79 Buffalo girls?

Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 07:56 PM (XuXeR)

80 How did she train it? The half dozen that I have known just didn't give a damn.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 25, 2025 07:52 PM (jc0TO)litter box.

=====

I'm not sure. They were these corner kinds, and she (the ferret) would back up into it, use it, then resume stealing things and hiding them under the bed.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 07:56 PM (BJ3RU)

81 I think the ferrets had more screen presence than Singer.
Posted by: Beartooth at November 25, 2025 07:55 PM (0714D)

He was a thing for a little bit there. V and this. And this, as ace said, was ALWAYS on.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 07:56 PM (zZu0s)

82 we quoting Jim Croce now ?
Posted by: alpine_beer

Lend me your ear and I'll play you a song.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 25, 2025 07:56 PM (LjSYW)

83 You can’t rollerskate in a buffalo herd.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 25, 2025 07:52 PM

Are you referring to bison or buffalo?

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at November 25, 2025 07:57 PM (OsWVp)

84 Baby ferrets called kits?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 07:57 PM (zZu0s)

85 >>>A bird, maybe an owl, camouflages itself as a log. I'm just glad it didn't reveal itself to be a spider.

Don't think that's an owl. You've had these on the Cafe before. Some kind of Big Mouth something or other. Some other not an owl kind of bird.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 25, 2025 07:57 PM (syz1S)

86 You can’t rollerskate in a buffalo herd.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 25, 2025 07:52 PM

Roger Miller. Novelty song from the 60s.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 25, 2025 07:57 PM (4mmkh)

87 Shut up, Wesley.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2025 07:57 PM (Wnv9h)

88 Motherfuckers always gotta try to ice skate up hill.

Posted by: Blade at November 25, 2025 07:58 PM (zZu0s)

89 A bird, maybe an owl, camouflages itself as a log.

-------------

"Pardon me, do you have any Great Potoo?"

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 25, 2025 07:58 PM (cjvQp)

90 Try not to sing out of key?

Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 08:01 PM (XuXeR)

91 Lion brothers fight over the bed.

------------

OUT: "But first, you will blow me."
IN: "But first, you will sit on my face."

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 25, 2025 08:02 PM (cjvQp)

92 Try not to sing out of key?
Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 08:01 PM (XuXeR)

Never seems to be enough time,
To do the things I wanna do

Posted by: Blade at November 25, 2025 08:02 PM (zZu0s)

93 48 Re Best parts of Beastmastrr
I see no mention of naked Tanya Roberts.
Gay!
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 07:44 PM (zZu0s)

The skinny-dipping scene.

Posted by: davidt at November 25, 2025 08:03 PM (Q+gd/)

94 Beastmaster definitely had a leopard. (Or a panther, though commenters have told me these are the same animal.) That one's right on the poster.

-------------

That black panther doesn't skip biceps day at the gym.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 25, 2025 08:03 PM (cjvQp)

95 >>>IIRC the one in Beastmaster was dyed

i always thought that, but later I saw a black panther in the zoo and it also had black spots "under" its black fur. Like, even the black leopards have black spots.

Posted by: ace at November 25, 2025 08:03 PM (1wjle)

96 32 If a Wesley Crusher could crush Wesleys, how many Wesleys could a Wesley Crusher crush?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 07:37 PM (npFr7)

All of 'em. You'll run out of Wesleys in no time. Except for that guy that once shot a man for snorin' too loud. He scares me.

Posted by: The Wesley Crusher at November 25, 2025 08:03 PM (pIfcn)

97 but i guess the beastmaster cat was a tiger, spraypainted black to look like a panther?

Posted by: ace at November 25, 2025 08:04 PM (1wjle)

98 Try not to sing out of key?
Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 08:01 PM (XuXeR)

Never seems to be enough time,
To do the things I wanna do
Posted by: Blade at November 25, 2025 08:02 PM (zZu0s)

Obligatory:

https://youtu.be/XF8ZgguyQ3Y

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2025 08:04 PM (Wnv9h)

99 >>>Don't think that's an owl. You've had these on the Cafe before. Some kind of Big Mouth something or other. Some other not an owl kind of bird.

oh yeah maybe a frogmouth

Posted by: ace at November 25, 2025 08:04 PM (1wjle)

100 Hey everybody. Hey ace.

Olivia Nuzzi just took a flea and tick bath.

But did it take care of her STDs?

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 08:05 PM (xqw19)

101 The skinny-dipping scene.
Posted by: davidt at November 25, 2025 08:03 PM (Q+gd/)

Mmmm-hmmm.

And iirc in that scene she is not bleached blonde but had a dirty blonde to brown hair look. Pretty hot.

Posted by: Blade at November 25, 2025 08:05 PM (zZu0s)

102 >> Because it's a Mons?

Olympus Mons.

Mars is also home to the biggest canyon in the solar system, Valles Marineris, which makes the Grand Canyon look like a little scratch.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 25, 2025 08:05 PM (w6EFb)

103 Don't think that's an owl. You've had these on the Cafe before. Some kind of Big Mouth something or other. Some other not an owl kind of bird.

oh yeah maybe a frogmouth
Posted by: ace at November 25, 2025 08:04 PM (1wjle)

Yeah, yeah, like that Tim Walz fella.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 25, 2025 08:05 PM (0aYVJ)

104 The NYT might be the worst newspaper in the US, at this point. It's down to garbage tier clickbait.

"Acclaimed Writer of Indigenous Stories Says He Is Not Cherokee

Thomas King said he felt “ripped in half” on learning he had no Indigenous ancestry. The Canadian author has dedicated his career to writing about Indigenous people."

https://is.gd/5H0Uc4

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 08:05 PM (BI5O2)

105 Speaking of camouflaged spiders, outside our bedroom window there was a leaf sort of caught up on a spider web. The fetching Mrs Beartooth watched as the spider ran out, grabbed the leave and brought it back next to the window, secured it with more webbing then crawled behind it. So, it built a camouflaged shelter that protects it from the elements and gets heat via the window.

Posted by: Beartooth at November 25, 2025 08:06 PM (0714D)

106 /off sock

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 08:06 PM (zZu0s)

107 I was rooting for the Lion.

Sorry.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2025 08:07 PM (Ffc+8)

108 So, it built a camouflaged shelter that protects it from the elements and gets heat via the window.
Posted by: Beartooth at November 25, 2025 08:06 PM

And it watches you in your bedroom.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2025 08:08 PM (Wnv9h)

109 Otters, cool.
Penguins, cool.
Kittens, cool.
Lizards, not cool.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 08:08 PM (A0sqA)

110
Valles Marineris with the continental US outline imposed for scale:

https://is.gd/gGD3kc

That's a big gulley.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 25, 2025 08:08 PM (w6EFb)

111 Olympus Mons

I prefer the Pentax Mons and Nikon Mons myself :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 08:08 PM (xqw19)

112 The ferrets are Kodo and Podo. Odo was the shapeshifter security officer on Deep Space 9.

Posted by: Serious geekery at November 25, 2025 08:08 PM (TbWk/)

113 Blade vs Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Discuss.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 08:09 PM (zZu0s)

114 And it watches you in your bedroom.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2025 08:08 PM

The Observation Lounge does get crowded sometimes.

Posted by: Bob from NSA at November 25, 2025 08:09 PM (0sNs1)

115
109 Otters, cool.
Penguins, cool.
Kittens, cool.
Lizards, not cool.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 08:08 PM (A0sqA)

Actually, lizards are cold blooded, the others are warm blooded.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at November 25, 2025 08:10 PM (Ffc+8)

116 Thomas King said he felt “ripped in half” on learning he had no Indigenous ancestry. The Canadian author has dedicated his career to writing about Indigenous people."

https://is.gd/5H0Uc4
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 08:05 PM (BI5O2)

Well, he's got the "making shit up" part down to a science.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 08:10 PM (npFr7)

117 Thomas King said he felt “ripped in half” on learning he had no Indigenous ancestry. The Canadian author has dedicated his career to writing about Indigenous people."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 08:05 PM (BI5O2)

What a pussy.

Posted by: ferret at November 25, 2025 08:10 PM (9fYs9)

118 You can’t rollerskate in a buffalo herd.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 25, 2025 07:52 PM

Roger Miller. Novelty song from the 60s.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

Well, it's no Chug-a-Lug Chug-a-Lug.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 08:10 PM (L/fGl)

119 NYT is about ]-[ this close to publishing a BuzzFeed listicle about the top 17 NTC hotspots where you're likeliest to get caught by a cop dressed as a gay whore.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 08:11 PM (BI5O2)

120 I prefer the Pentax Mons and Nikon Mons myself :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 08:08 PM

Pffft! The Hasselblad Mons is the one to own.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2025 08:11 PM (Wnv9h)

121 RMBS, yes but it costs $10,000

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 08:12 PM (xqw19)

122 Blade vs Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Discuss.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

Buffy wins the long game. Since another Slayer was "promoted" every time Buffy died (and was resuscitated or resurrected), she'd eventually outnumber him by enough to out-badass even Wesley Snipes.

Posted by: mikeski at November 25, 2025 08:13 PM (nhCoE)

123 Blade vs Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Discuss.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 08:09 PM

Kristy Swanson >>>>>>> Wesley Snipes.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2025 08:13 PM (Wnv9h)

124 OUT: "But first, you will blow me."
IN: "But first, you will sit on my face."
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November

And tell me that you love me?

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 25, 2025 08:15 PM (mT+6a)

125 I've never seen Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Not sure that's something that needs to be remedied in my lifetime.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2025 08:16 PM (Ffc+8)

126 Disagree. Blade is minimal flash. Kind of like the John Wick of vampire killers. Just shooting motherfuckers in the head. Done. I'd say Buffy would be thinking up a quip, get decapitated and Wesley snipes would be cleaning his sword inside a minute.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 08:16 PM (zZu0s)

127 In my 29 years I have sung exactly two karaoke songs: "Dust in the Wind" and" King of the Road."

I would like to do "Sweating Bullets," but that's not in the cues of most karaoke machines.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 25, 2025 08:16 PM (0aYVJ)

128 Kristy Swanson >>>>>>> Wesley Snipes.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2025 08:13 PM (Wnv9h)

Hmmm. Interesting argument.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 08:17 PM (zZu0s)

129 RMBS, yes but it costs $10,000
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 08:12 PM

The RMBS Dad's hobby was photography. Goddaughter The Younger's grandfather was a professional photographer. He had a Hasselblad that somehow got out of kilter. Told the dad if he could fix it, it was his. Surprising absolutely no one, the dad fixed it. One of these days I'll have to look up it's value.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2025 08:17 PM (Wnv9h)

130 I've never seen Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Not sure that's something that needs to be remedied in my lifetime.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

The movie was camp.

The TV series got good, mostly after the first season. Which was a half-season-long mid-season replacement for something else that must have sucked.

Posted by: mikeski at November 25, 2025 08:17 PM (nhCoE)

131 That damn Vance!

Joy Reid pushes the deranged conspiracy theory that JD Vance is going to leave his wife for Erika Kirk:
“Rubbin on his head? Babyyyy… you in leatha pants?… Wouldn’t it be the most perfect MAGA fairy-tail if he finally sees the light that he needs a White Queen instead of this brown Hindu?”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 08:18 PM (L/fGl)

132 Back in the early days of cable I must have watched Beastmaster a dozen or three times.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2025 08:19 PM (estQK)

133 RMBS, understood.
I got my technology and photography interest from my dad as well, although he was always happy with whatever was on sale. Crazy me, of course, is in love with the out-of-reach stuff.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 08:19 PM (xqw19)

134 Monty Python

Sit on My Face


https://tinyurl.com/3z5hk6b4

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 25, 2025 08:20 PM (mT+6a)

135 you can keep the dime

Posted by: alpine_beer at November 25, 2025 08:21 PM (EH7ZV)

136
Believe it or do not believe it, I eat average 30 eggs a week.

I have NEVER in my life seen a "double yolk." What are the odds?

Posted by: Soothsayer Shakes a Spear at You at November 25, 2025 08:22 PM (BihGC)

137 The demand for racism always outstrip the supply.

Although a few of the stories lately make you examine that.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 08:23 PM (zZu0s)

138 Pug: is "Everything Is You" by the Stylistics easy to find to do karaoke with?

I like to think I can make myself sound a bit like Russell Thompkins Jr.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 08:23 PM (xqw19)

139 RMBS, understood.
I got my technology and photography interest from my dad as well, although he was always happy with whatever was on sale. Crazy me, of course, is in love with the out-of-reach stuff.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 08:19 PM

I still have an old wood, brass and leather Kodak and tripod the dad had as a kid. Glass slide type. Along with a couple of photographs he took with it of his little sister. It's a great piece.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2025 08:23 PM (Wnv9h)

140 76 Whenever you read the word "penguin", don't forget the '8 P's' we were taught as children:

Penguins push profuse pustulant pernicious polymorphicaly-perverse pestilence. - Duncanthrax

Hmm. Pernicious Alliterative Commenting Online. A sad case of end-stage Spheniscidaphobia.

Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2025 08:24 PM (mADJX)

141 I get Family Sized Tea Bags that are duds on occasion.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2025 08:24 PM (estQK)

142 I've never seen Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
-------
I saw the movie in the theater, long before the television show came out. Once upon a time there was a decent movie in the theater pretty much every week.

Posted by: Crusader at November 25, 2025 08:24 PM (TN0g+)

143 I get Family Sized Tea Bags that are duds on occasion.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2025 08:24 PM (estQK)

How do you fit a whole family on your chin?

Posted by: ferret at November 25, 2025 08:25 PM (9fYs9)

144 RMBS, all that sounds like really nice stuff. Is the Kodak a Brownie?

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 08:25 PM (xqw19)

145 After admitting President Trump hasn't issued any illegal orders, Elissa Slotkin bizarrely brings up the Nuremberg trials and "A Few Good Men" to try and justify Democrats' insurrectionist video.

-
And don't forget Jurassic Park! Sumbitch could be cloning Tyrannosaurs and Raptors!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 08:26 PM (L/fGl)

146 I get Family Sized Tea Bags that are duds on occasion.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2025 08:24 PM (estQK)

How do you fit a whole family on your chin?
Posted by: ferret at November 25, 2025 08:25 PM (9fYs9)


There's a sperm volume joke in here somewhere.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 08:27 PM (zZu0s)

147 Bird is a frogmouth -related to whipoorwill. Sometimes called nightjars.

Posted by: Glenn at November 25, 2025 08:27 PM (vneJl)

148 you can keep the dime"

You can keep your hat on...

Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 08:28 PM (XuXeR)

149 Anon, next thing you know Trump will be shrinking DC representatives.

"Honey I Shrunk The Congress!"

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 08:28 PM (xqw19)

150 And don't forget Jurassic Park! Sumbitch could be cloning Tyrannosaurs and Raptors!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 08:26 PM (L/fGl)

*nods*

So worried about whether they could, they did not stop to think if they should.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 08:28 PM (zZu0s)

151 Kelly should absolutely be censured in the Senate.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 08:29 PM (xqw19)

152 I saw the movie in the theater, long before the television show came out. Once upon a time there was a decent movie in the theater pretty much every week.
Posted by: Crusader at November 25, 2025 08:24 PM (TN0g+)

Before they had kids, my brother and his wife would spend an entire Saturday watching a movie, getting tickets for another; and they had a great time seeing mostly pretty decent flicks. Some duds, of course, but that's part of the fun. Sometimes they would see three of four. But the 80s was kind of a golden age.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 25, 2025 08:30 PM (0aYVJ)

153 Kelly should absolutely be censured in the Senate.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 08:29 PM (xqw19)

You misspelled keelhauled.

Posted by: ferret at November 25, 2025 08:30 PM (9fYs9)

154 RMBS, all that sounds like really nice stuff. Is the Kodak a Brownie?
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 08:25 PM

I think so. That rings a bell.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2025 08:30 PM (Wnv9h)

155 Compared to Hammond and his Jurassic flea circus, Elon Musk wanting to create cat-girls is positively benign.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2025 08:30 PM (BqVGy)

156 ferret, how about drawn and quartered? :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 08:30 PM (xqw19)

157 Kelly should be left under the keel as Nimitz does a speed run.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2025 08:31 PM (BqVGy)

158 RMBS, it is probably worth a pretty penny then.
Especially if it still works.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 08:31 PM (xqw19)

159 A lot of the world was built by men wanting to impress women.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2025 08:32 PM (Ffc+8)

160 Do the Nimitz Carriers have to be retired at some point?

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2025 08:32 PM (estQK)

161 RMBS, it is probably worth a pretty penny then.
Especially if it still works.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 08:31 PM

As far as I know it does work. I think I have a couple of glass plates as well.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2025 08:33 PM (Wnv9h)

162 Nimitz should have gone into deactivation this year, but the Ford class is having issues.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2025 08:33 PM (BqVGy)

163 RMBS, your retirement is assured then :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 08:34 PM (xqw19)

164 but the Ford class is having issues.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2025 08:33 PM (BqVGy)

Weren't they trying some new sort of catapult? That worked as well as the rail gun thing?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 08:34 PM (zZu0s)

165 AFAIK, Brownies were all roll-film cameras, and were inexpensive. Kodak made a whole line of other cameras, both roll and sheet film, that used a bellows to focus. "Ektagraphic" is one such model.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 08:35 PM (npFr7)

166 The Fords are rolling out too slowly.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2025 08:35 PM (estQK)

167 I shudder to think of what would have happened to any Repub congresscreature who mentioned during Obama's term that soldiers didn't have to follow illegal orders.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 08:36 PM (xqw19)

168
Believe it or do not believe it, I eat average 30 eggs a week.

I have NEVER in my life seen a "double yolk." What are the odds?
Posted by: Soothsayer Shakes a Spear at You

I never saw any until I started buying Jumbo eggs.
Now I see one every couple of dozen or so.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 25, 2025 08:36 PM (pkeXY)

169 RMBS, your retirement is assured then :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 08:34 PM

😄 He had an extensive collection of antique cameras. I'll have to find someone who can value them one of these days.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2025 08:36 PM (Wnv9h)

170 AFAIK, Brownies were all roll-film cameras, and were inexpensive. Kodak made a whole line of other cameras, both roll and sheet film, that used a bellows to focus. "Ektagraphic" is one such model.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 08:35 PM

This one is older than roll film. I'll have to see if I can find anything about it online.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2025 08:38 PM (Wnv9h)

171 Hey Steve!

I didn't get to post an answer on the radish question until the very end of the food thread, but looking at your website link, it looks like pickled daikon radish. A classic accompanyment at most fine Korean restaurants.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 25, 2025 08:39 PM (/HDaX)

172
Weren't they trying some new sort of catapult?

ACME rubber band.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 25, 2025 08:39 PM (pkeXY)

173 Trebuchet ftw.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2025 08:40 PM (estQK)

174 Additional Blond Agent: thanks for the info!

I can't believe that radish side would be hard to make at home. Like I said, I think the brine is just water, sugar and a bit of salt.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 08:40 PM (xqw19)

175 Chicago’s Marxist Mayor Brandon Johnson Says Imprisoning Violenct Criminals is ‘Racist, Immoral and Unholy’


I agree.

Held in protective custody until trial because they should be treated as outlaws and subject to whatever the good citizenry chooses to do with them. Unless the request protective custody and dand a trial.

If convicted they get the ol' eye for an eye (or whatever) and left as their victim was.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 25, 2025 08:41 PM (rGPrJ)

176 A bird, maybe an owl, camouflages itself as a log.

For a bit of irony, back when I was a teenager, I had a friend who was a bit of nature girl. She had a pet bluejay and one day, while she was walking, it was sitting on her shoulder.

Suddenly it took off and flew right at her house, nailing something that looked like a vine or twig hanging from the siding.

Turns out it was a praying mantis that failed camoflage school.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 25, 2025 08:42 PM (/HDaX)

177 My parents gave me a brownie when I was in 3rd grade, it was old even then, but I took pictures of Yellowstone with it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 08:42 PM (ngbZu)

178
Beastmaster, hmmm? Death Stalker, yes.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 25, 2025 08:43 PM (P9xGM)

179
If convicted they get the ol' eye for an eye (or whatever) and left as their victim was.
----
Too early to call dibs on the air hose?

Posted by: clarence at November 25, 2025 08:43 PM (GE9Fw)

180 131 That damn Vance!

Joy Reid pushes the deranged conspiracy theory that JD Vance is going to leave his wife for Erika Kirk:
“Rubbin on his head? Babyyyy… you in leatha pants?… Wouldn’t it be the most perfect MAGA fairy-tail if he finally sees the light that he needs a White Queen instead of this brown Hindu?”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
.........................................................
Amazing.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 25, 2025 08:43 PM (sAmhv)

181 I can't believe that radish side would be hard to make at home. Like I said, I think the brine is just water, sugar and a bit of salt.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 08:40 PM (xqw19)

Nah, the real trick, according to my asian wife, is finding a decent quality daikon radish (hint: don't buy the really big ones) at the market. Once you got that part down, the pickling is straightforward.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 25, 2025 08:44 PM (/HDaX)

182 He had an extensive collection of antique cameras. I'll have to find someone who can value them one of these days.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2025 08:36 PM (Wnv9h)

If you want to carry on, and add to the collection, I have a few not-very-valuable cameras I would be happy to give you.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 08:44 PM (npFr7)

183 "Believe it or do not believe it, I eat average 30 eggs a week."

Those are rookie numbers.

Posted by: Cool Hand Luke at November 25, 2025 08:45 PM (Q+gd/)

184 Before they had kids, my brother and his wife would spend an entire Saturday watching a movie, getting tickets for another; and they had a great time seeing mostly pretty decent flicks. Some duds, of course, but that's part of the fun. Sometimes they would see three of four. But the 80s was kind of a golden age.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 25, 2025 08:30 PM (0aYVJ)

Buy tickets for another? In the 70’s when mall theaters came out with 8 screens and such, my friends and I would go at about 10 or 11 in the morning and then we’d spend all day hopping from screen to screen watching everything they had on one ticket. Eh, they made it up on all the popcorn and cokes we bought.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 08:46 PM (ngbZu)

185 You only got to watch the SFW version if you were watching Beastmaster during daylight hours. They cut the part that went beyond "Beastmaster" level and went to "Hubba Hubba" levels - Tanya Roberts coming out of the pond topless.

Posted by: GWB at November 25, 2025 08:46 PM (RMPzC)

186 Additional, again thanks. :-)

If you've never tried bb.q chicken, give 'em an order. Willing to guarantee you'll love their wings. Expensive, but at least they make sure the chicken is MEATY. I also love to dip everything in their honey garlic sauce.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 08:46 PM (xqw19)

187 MTG resigns and a volcano erupts in Ethiopia. No way is this a coincidence.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at November 25, 2025 08:46 PM (zqeQL)

188 It was on HBO for a decade.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2025 08:47 PM (estQK)

189 After an egg sale I eat 42 eggs per week.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2025 08:48 PM (estQK)

190 That lion is two steps from jumping into the bed of that truck.
You can see it in his eyes.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 25, 2025 08:48 PM (P9xGM)

191
I never saw any until I started buying Jumbo eggs.
Now I see one every couple of dozen or so.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Must be nice.

Posted by: Soothsayer Shakes a Spear at You at November 25, 2025 08:50 PM (QhCdW)

192 I fondly remember the Breastmaster movie, and those two bouncy ferrets.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 08:50 PM (3uBP9)

193 I have not seen Blade, but I do know that Sarah Michelle Gellar Buffy is superior to Kristy Swanson Buffy.

Posted by: Scarlett O'Hara at November 25, 2025 08:51 PM (I+b0k)

194 173 Trebuchet ftw.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2025 08:40 PM (estQK)


https://tinyurl.com/486e6nxa

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at November 25, 2025 08:51 PM (pIfcn)

195 Buy tickets for another? In the 70’s when mall theaters came out with 8 screens and such, my friends and I would go at about 10 or 11 in the morning and then we’d spend all day hopping from screen to screen watching everything they had on one ticket. Eh, they made it up on all the popcorn and cokes we bought.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 08:46 PM (ngbZu)

You would have to meet my brother and his wife. Upright Christians. They don't even jaywalk.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 25, 2025 08:52 PM (0aYVJ)

196 177 My parents gave me a brownie when I was in 3rd grade, it was old even then, but I took pictures of Yellowstone with it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 08:42 PM (ngbZu)

It took me a minute, but I finally realized you were not being patronized by your mom and dad with a tasty chocolate concoction.

Posted by: moki at November 25, 2025 08:53 PM (wLjpr)

197
Title RefuckingVoked!

Gay fag pervert pretending to be a girl "won" Worlds Strongest Woman title at some powerlifting event.

Reeeeeeeeeeeee....



VOKED.

Why?

Because the backlash was too much for organizers to ignore. Because Trump's victory made it okay to vociferously oppose this evil, and not be cowered into silent acceptance.

Posted by: Soothsayer Shakes a Spear at You at November 25, 2025 08:54 PM (QhCdW)

198 Soothsayer, good news.

Also wanted to add if it's okay:

FYI everyone, you all know the Babylon Bee right?
There's a similar online website at IG about living in Orange County, California. As you may or may not know, the general rule in OC is: the further south you go, the higher the net worth per person/household.

Anyway, the site is called the OC Tuna Melt, and they just ran a headline:

Newport Beach Bristol Farms Supermarket now offering 22.99% APR financing for Thanksgiving dinner

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 08:55 PM (xqw19)

199 I think that birds a frogmouth. (Australian)

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 08:56 PM (ngbZu)

200 What we're looking for here for is, I think - and this is no more than an educated guess, I'd like to make that clear - is some multicellular life form with stripes, huge razor-sharp teeth, about eleven feet long, and of the genus felis horribilis - what we doctors, in fact, call a 'tiger'.

Posted by: Dr. Livingstone at November 25, 2025 08:56 PM (wVcYX)

201 It was on HBO for a decade.
Posted by: Boss Moss

5 times a week for 30 years.

Posted by: TBS at November 25, 2025 08:57 PM (LjSYW)

202 I think the big cat was painted black for the movie. It looked that way at least.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 08:58 PM (3uBP9)

203 Don't call it the OC.

Posted by: Michael Bluth at November 25, 2025 08:58 PM (0aYVJ)

204 Why?

Because the backlash was too much for organizers to ignore. Because Trump's victory made it okay to vociferously oppose this evil, and not be cowered into silent acceptance.
Posted by: Soothsayer Shakes a Spear
----------

Amazing what a real leader can inspire.
Patton pissed Ike off.
But he liked it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 25, 2025 08:58 PM (P9xGM)

205 My parents gave me a brownie when I was in 3rd grade, it was old even then, but I took pictures of Yellowstone with it.
Posted by: Tom Servo

It took me a minute, but I finally realized you were not being patronized by your mom and dad with a tasty chocolate concoction.
Posted by: moki

Or a girl scout. 3rd grade is a bit early for dating, but an "old" Brownie would be the same age.

Posted by: mikeski at November 25, 2025 08:58 PM (nhCoE)

206 I have not seen Blade, but I do know that Sarah Michelle Gellar Buffy is superior to Kristy Swanson Buffy.
Posted by: Scarlett O'Hara

Naked jello wrestling will solve this.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 25, 2025 08:59 PM (LjSYW)

207 >>> MTG resigns and a volcano erupts in Ethiopia. No way is this a coincidence.
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at November 25, 2025 08:46 PM (zqeQL)


I think I read about that in Ace's movie review earlier today.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 09:00 PM (3uBP9)

208 196 177 My parents gave me a brownie when I was in 3rd grade,
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Weren't yall a little young for that kind of thing?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 25, 2025 09:00 PM (P9xGM)

209 Poor Tanya Roberts died in 2021 of sepsis. I wonder if the general degradation of medical care quality as result of the Great Sniffle Panic was a contributing factor?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 09:00 PM (npFr7)

210 Question: Could the Beastmaster control Manimal?

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 25, 2025 09:01 PM (wVcYX)

211 My greatest veg-out at a movie theatre was in ‘74 - I looked it up - and the studio had this “Go Ape!” Promotion where you could go to the mall theatre on a Saturday and watch all 5 Planet of the Apes movies in a row - 10 grueling hours! Of course I did it.
By the time you got to the last one it was obvious that they were hardly even trying.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 09:02 PM (ngbZu)

212 what we doctors, in fact, call a 'tiger'.
Posted by: Dr. Livingstone at November 25, 2025 08:56 PM

A tiger?!

In Africa?!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2025 09:03 PM (Wnv9h)

213 Question: Could the Beastmaster control Manimal?
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 25, 2025 09:01 PM

*laughs*

- ManBearPig

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2025 09:03 PM (Wnv9h)

214
The best parts of Beastmaster are actually just "all of Beastmaster," thank you very much.
Posted by: Ace

Does garret know you're watching beastmaster pr0n?

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 25, 2025 09:05 PM (QVmho)

215 Beastmaster was awesome. Miss Roberts and her nekkid boobies were inspiring. I teared up when the one ferret died.

Posted by: Ah, the 80s at November 25, 2025 09:06 PM (KmN9e)

216 Tom Servo:

In 1987 my local mallplex (only four theaters) had a double-feature, Stand By Me paired with Jumpin' Jack Flash (Whoopi Goldberg's Bond spoof). Odd coupling, but I was dying to see Stand By Me, and was only slightly curious about JJF.

I left loving JJF and thinking Stand By Me was just meh.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 09:06 PM (xqw19)

217 Hello, friends! Rainy night here,

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2025 09:07 PM (Wmg4n)

218 209 Poor Tanya Roberts died in 2021 of sepsis. I wonder if the general degradation of medical care quality as result of the Great Sniffle Panic was a contributing factor?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
---

Even if one believed most of the crap any sane person would know that they (those hospitalized) were dropping like flies. (I'm talking about that period) Just don't go to the hospital.
Pick another option.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 25, 2025 09:07 PM (P9xGM)

219 Kristy Swanson is pretty darned MAGA. I didn't know she was in the movie Flowers In the Attic. I also didn't know they made a Flowers In the Attic movie. I've only heard about those books from girls I knew in high school. It was so popular. It sounded really messed up. Chicks man...

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 09:08 PM (3uBP9)

220 I don't remember a ferret dying.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2025 09:08 PM (estQK)

221
Engaging the Beastmaster Gear should be reserved for only the most epic occasions... like getting to see Tanya Roberts emerge topless from a pond.
- She was soooo very fine.



Posted by: Bach In Black at November 25, 2025 09:08 PM (KY9hS)

222 Hello, friends! Rainy night here,
Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2025 09:07 PM

First time in a month, it seems.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 25, 2025 09:10 PM (jc0TO)

223 I must've never seen all of Beastmaster, because young teenaged me would DEFINITELY remember seeing a topless Tanya Roberts.

Posted by: PabloD at November 25, 2025 09:10 PM (lC2t1)

224 Yeah Jumping Jack Flash was about the last time Whoopi wasn’t repulsive.
Another world.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 09:12 PM (ngbZu)

225 I read the novel before seeing Planet of the Apes and the ending was different but I was still freaked out

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 09:14 PM (A0sqA)

226 Tom, yup.
The last time Whoopi was patriotic too.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 09:14 PM (xqw19)

227 >>> I must've never seen all of Beastmaster, because young teenaged me would DEFINITELY remember seeing a topless Tanya Roberts.
Posted by: PabloD at November 25, 2025 09:10 PM (lC2t1)


The edited tv versions always cut it out. But the one on the Home Beastmaster Office channel kept it in. And I think it was on HBO at least once a week or more.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 09:14 PM (3uBP9)

228
I don't remember a ferret dying.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Tubi is streaming it. I just started it to rewatch once again. The three witches around the caldron are sporting a serious lap dance vibe if you take away the makeup.

A ferret most definitely dies. It's nearly as bad as the ending of Old Yeller.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 25, 2025 09:15 PM (QVmho)

229 The gimp mosters were scary. I think this film was teaching valuable lessons.

Rip Torn was eating the ass out of that role and loving every minute of it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 09:16 PM (zZu0s)

230 197 Because the backlash was too much for organizers to ignore. Because Trump's victory made it okay to vociferously oppose this evil, and not be cowered into silent acceptance.
Posted by: Soothsayer Shakes a Spear at You at November 25, 2025 08:54 PM (QhCdW)

Very true. During Biden we had to shut up and take it.

Posted by: Joemarine at November 25, 2025 09:17 PM (y171U)

231 A ferret most definitely dies. It's nearly as bad as the ending of Old Yeller.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 25, 2025 09:15 PM (QVmho)

Ferret Fawcett-Majors died, too, which was also sad.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 09:17 PM (npFr7)

232

Rip Torn was eating the ass out of that role and loving every minute of it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

I had forgotten he was in it until i just saw the opening scene. 100% tore that role up. What an actor.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 25, 2025 09:18 PM (QVmho)

233 Is Beastmaster 1999 any good?

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2025 09:18 PM (estQK)

234 Rainy Night

youtu.be/8AYjvxFQ4oo

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 25, 2025 09:19 PM (P9xGM)

235 A ferret most definitely dies. It's nearly as bad as the ending of Old Yeller.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 25, 2025 09:15 PM (QVmho)

This. One of the himp monsters is about to kill the kid or something and the feret attacks him. Chewing his neck. The gimp monster fails about and falls in the sacrificial fire, sadly taking the valiant feret with it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 09:20 PM (zZu0s)

236 The... hawk(?) Bat monster things were pretty scary as a kid too.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 09:22 PM (zZu0s)

237 My younger brother had Beastmaster memorized. He watched it probably around a thousand times. I was sick of it after seeing it once. Except for the TR titty scene. That part got worn out on the VHS tape.

Posted by: Reforger at November 25, 2025 09:23 PM (03GBw)

238 "If you've never tried bb.q chicken, give 'em an order. Willing to guarantee you'll love their wings. Expensive, but at least they make sure the chicken is MEATY. I also love to dip everything in their honey garlic sauce.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 08:46 PM (xqw19)"

If they have location near me, I'll have to give them a go. Thanks for the recommendation!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at November 25, 2025 09:23 PM (/HDaX)

239 211 My greatest veg-out at a movie theatre was in ‘74 - I looked it up - and the studio had this “Go Ape!” Promotion where you could go to the mall theatre on a Saturday and watch all 5 Planet of the Apes movies in a row - 10 grueling hours! Of course I did it.
By the time you got to the last one it was obvious that they were hardly even trying.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 09:02 PM (ngbZu)

There was a big drop off in quality after the first 3.
Roddy McDowall had the good sense to quit after those.

Posted by: Joemarine at November 25, 2025 09:23 PM (y171U)

240 Tanya Roberts and Rebecca DeMorney basically ushered me through puberty.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2025 09:23 PM (Ffc+8)

241 Ferret Fawcett-Majors died, too, which was also sad.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 09:17 PM (npFr7)

ISWYDT

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 09:24 PM (xqw19)

242 Additional Blonde Agent, my fave at bb.q chicken is their spicy original wings. KFC could only dream of making wings that good. And as mentioned, I get a side of honey garlic sauce with them as well.

Easy to find locations, just go to their website and enter your zip code. They've really expanded the last couple years.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 09:25 PM (xqw19)

243
My greatest veg-out at a movie theatre was in ‘74 - I looked it up - and the studio had this “Go Ape!” Promotion where you could go to the mall theatre on a Saturday and watch all 5 Planet of the Apes movies in a row - 10 grueling hours! Of course I did it.
By the time you got to the last one it was obvious that they were hardly even trying.
Posted by: Tom Servo
-----
There was a big drop off in quality after the first 3.
Roddy McDowall had the good sense to quit after those.
Posted by: Joemarine

I do this with The Hobbit, and Lord Of The Rings director's cut dvd sets once a yaer. Thankfully, the quality never drops.

It's a long as fuck 18 hours, but well worth it.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 25, 2025 09:25 PM (QVmho)

244 Whoa, there are 3 Beastmaster films.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 25, 2025 09:26 PM (qmNGt)

245 222 Hello, friends! Rainy night here,
Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2025 09:07 PM

First time in a month, it seems.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 25

Going to be a little chilly, too!

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2025 09:26 PM (Wmg4n)

246 245 222 Hello, friends! Rainy night here,
Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2025 09:07 PM

First time in a month, it seems.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 25

Going to be a little chilly, too!
Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2025 09:26 PM (Wmg4n)

Almost like winter is approaching!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2025 09:27 PM (Ffc+8)

247 Almost like winter is approaching!
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2025 09:27 PM


*blink*blink*

Posted by: Ned Stark's Head at November 25, 2025 09:28 PM (qmNGt)

248 [Mad Max] Waters: This is an important press conference that is being held to let you know what we're all doing: resisting this lowdown dirty no good filthy president

-
Apparently doesn't know Biden is no longer president.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 09:28 PM (L/fGl)

249 What does it say about me that I want to murder every character in this Invasion series and yet I am still watching it?

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 25, 2025 09:30 PM (qmNGt)

250 247 Almost like winter is approaching!
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2025 09:27 PM


*blink*blink*
Posted by: Ned Stark's Head at November 25, 2025 09:28 PM (qmNGt)

You've lost weight! How are things?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2025 09:30 PM (Ffc+8)

251 @Rightanglenews . Sep 2

BREAKING - Maduro is now begging President Trump not to take military action against Venezuela, insisting both nations can instead work together to end drug trafficking.
--

We spent a lot of money on fuel, personnel, food and equipment getting down there.
It's time for Venezuela to surrender or else.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 25, 2025 09:31 PM (P9xGM)

252 All of the Beastmaster movies lost money.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2025 09:32 PM (estQK)

253 Yeah Jumping Jack Flash was about the last time Whoopi wasn’t repulsive.
Another world.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 09:12 PM

"Oh, look! A tropical fish and its mate!"

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2025 09:32 PM (Wnv9h)

254 Kristy Swanson is pretty darned MAGA. I didn't know she was in the movie Flowers In the Attic. I also didn't know they made a Flowers In the Attic movie. I've only heard about those books from girls I knew in high school. It was so popular. It sounded really messed up. Chicks man...
Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 09:08 PM (3uBP9)

=====

They effed up the movie, big time.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 09:32 PM (r+pQK)

255 Let's take Venezuela. We need our own Gitmo outside of Cuba.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2025 09:33 PM (Ffc+8)

256 All of the Beastmaster movies lost money.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2025 09:32 PM (estQK)

I can't imagine the first lost money in the long run.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 09:33 PM (zZu0s)

257 RMBS, LOL
Quite a few funny moments in that film.

I also love when she has to meet a contact at... the NYC Docks. "I may as well pin a note to my ass saying 'Victim here! Victim here!'" ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 09:33 PM (xqw19)

258 Let's take Venezuela. We need our own Gitmo outside of Cuba.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2025 09:33 PM

Filibuster!

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 25, 2025 09:33 PM (qmNGt)

259 Let's take Venezuela. We need our own Gitmo outside of Cuba.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2025 09:33 PM (Ffc+

Oil again.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 09:34 PM (zZu0s)

260 Toys In The Attic >>> Flowers In The Attic

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 25, 2025 09:34 PM (wVcYX)

261
maduro: there is no drug trafficking from shithole venezuela

also maduro: let's work together to stop the drugs from shithole vuvuzuela


Fuuuuuuuuuuuck You, maduro.

Posted by: Soothsayer Shakes a Spear at You at November 25, 2025 09:35 PM (DEpfd)

262 >>> All of the Beastmaster movies lost money.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 25, 2025 09:32 PM (estQK)


Maybe the real treasure were the friends they made along the way.

Posted by: deep thoughts by banana Dream at November 25, 2025 09:35 PM (3uBP9)

263 Good evening. First snow of the season. Yard has a covering.

Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2025 09:36 PM (41CYW)

264 Eric Metaxas@ericmetaxas . 2h

@GenFlynn joins me to talk about the deep state, Pam Bondi, Sidney Powell, the seditious six, and why he believes Trump must move at the speed of war to bring real justice and fix our elections.

⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
(0:00) Intro
(0:43) General Michael Flynn Joins
(1:13) Pam Bondi And Justice Delay
(3:33) Deep State And Wrong People
(10:31) Seditious Six
(17:44) Obama, Russiagate, and Trump Duty
(24:25) Election Integrity And Speed Of War

https://tinyurl.com/26yhb3uy

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 25, 2025 09:36 PM (P9xGM)

265 A strangers just a friend you haven't met.

Streetcar!!

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 25, 2025 09:36 PM (qmNGt)

266 >>> They effed up the movie, big time.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 09:32 PM (r+pQK)


Based on the little I know about the movie, could they even do all that in the 80s?

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 09:37 PM (3uBP9)

267 toby:
you can always depend on the kindness of strangers!

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 09:37 PM (xqw19)

268 Filibuster!
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 25, 2025 09:33 PM (qmNGt)

You could have socked this as William Walker, you know.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 09:38 PM (rbvCR)

269 247 Almost like winter is approaching!
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 25, 2025 09:27 PM

Yes, but I like our version of winter.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2025 09:38 PM (Wmg4n)

270 toby:
you can always depend on the kindness of strangers!
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 09:37 PM

The greatest TV musical since Gilligan did Hamlet.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 25, 2025 09:38 PM (qmNGt)

271 POOL SHARKS
"Where the buyer is our chum"

Posted by: Simpsons Signs as remembered by qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 09:39 PM (xqw19)

272 It looks like the Lifetime network is making a modern version of the books too. Probably the network for it. I've never heard of a man reading the books.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 09:39 PM (3uBP9)

273 There sure were a whole lotta words on the blog today.

I even read a few of them.

Posted by: mindful webworker - nothing means anything at November 25, 2025 09:40 PM (LaTF/)

274 Rebecca DeMorney is still a good looking lady at 66.

Posted by: Z, no not him. A different Z at November 25, 2025 09:41 PM (89Sog)

275 Toby, almost.

You're forgetting the sequel to Apocalypse Now, a musical called Apocalypse Wow! Jay Sherman (played by Jon Lovitz) reviewed it on his animated show, The Critic. Brando sang:

Here I am, I'm Colonel Kurtz
Fat and bald like old Fred Mertz!
Let me do a hula dance
To shake the egg rolls from my pants...

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 09:41 PM (xqw19)

276 Good evening. First snow of the season. Yard has a covering.
Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2025 09:36 PM (41CYW)

The first snow is a magic snow. BOLO for a magician's hat, corncob pipe, etc.

Posted by: Rankin Bass at November 25, 2025 09:41 PM (wVcYX)

277 >>> Rebecca DeMorney is still a good looking lady at 66.
Posted by: Z, no not him. A different Z at November 25, 2025 09:41 PM (89Sog)


There was also a gal with really amazing eyes in the same era, similar kind of movies. I forget her name. But not her eyes.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 09:44 PM (3uBP9)

278 They're saying possibility of Sydney Powell replacing Bondi.
Earlier today I read about her being replaced but dismissed it as gossip. Now, General Flynn is talking about it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 25, 2025 09:44 PM (P9xGM)

279 They're saying possibility of Sydney Powell replacing Bondi.
Earlier today I read about her being replaced but dismissed it as gossip. Now, General Flynn is talking about it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 25, 2025 09:44 PM (P9xGM)

Nekkid jello wrestling to determine which has the larger qualifications?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 09:47 PM (npFr7)

280 Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 09:44 PM (3uBP9)

You're not talking about creepy eyes, right?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 09:48 PM (zZu0s)

281 Oh, my bad. I thought you said Sydney Sweeney...

(dons dunce cap)

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 09:48 PM (npFr7)

282 RMBS, LOL
Quite a few funny moments in that film.

I also love when she has to meet a contact at... the NYC Docks. "I may as well pin a note to my ass saying 'Victim here! Victim here!'" ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 09:33 PM

I enjoy that movie way too much.

"Mick, Mick...speak English!"

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2025 09:49 PM (Wnv9h)

283 Oh, my bad. I thought you said Sydney Sweeney...


A Great American.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 25, 2025 09:49 PM (qmNGt)

284 Ah, Meg Foster. With the eyes.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 09:50 PM (3uBP9)

285 Sydney Sweeney for Secretary of Awesomeness.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 09:50 PM (xqw19)

286 RMBS, again, LOL. Wish Mick could have done a cameo.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 09:51 PM (xqw19)

287 I was fortunate enough to have been married to a lovely lady for 40 years who looked like Rebecca DeMornay and was mistaken for her sometimes in public. She remained lovely for decades, but passed away in 2020.

Posted by: She Was Awesome In Every Way at November 25, 2025 09:52 PM (zmYmM)

288 Don't know how much influence Flynn has with Trump but he's articulating exactly what many of us feel about DoJ.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 25, 2025 09:53 PM (P9xGM)

289 >>> I was fortunate enough to have been married to a lovely lady for 40 years who looked like Rebecca DeMornay and was mistaken for her sometimes in public. She remained lovely for decades, but passed away in 2020.
Posted by: She Was Awesome In Every Way at November 25, 2025 09:52 PM (zmYmM)



I'm so sorry. May her memory be a blessing.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 09:53 PM (3uBP9)

290 rise of the robots

we are doomed! Doomed I say!

youtu.be/ZOVe2jDETIo

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 09:56 PM (rbvCR)

291 Based on the little I know about the movie, could they even do all that in the 80s?
Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 09:37 PM (3uBP9)

=====

Probably not, but they didn't have to mess up the ending so badly.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 09:56 PM (r+pQK)

292 Doesn't Flynn want to burn down DOJ with everyone locked inside?

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 09:56 PM (xqw19)

293 Posted by: She Was Awesome In Every Way at November 25, 2025 09:52 PM (zmYmM)

May her memory remain a blessing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 09:56 PM (zZu0s)

294 That lizard should have learned to ask for help for items on the top shelf by now.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 25, 2025 09:57 PM (FVLcK)

295 we are doomed! Doomed I say!

youtu.be/ZOVe2jDETIo
Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 09:56 PM (rbvCR)

Kind of fits today's mode on the blog.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 09:57 PM (zZu0s)

296 Gen Flynn has been proven to be a bit trusting in the past.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 09:59 PM (rbvCR)

297 278. Isn’t she a convicted felon? Or did Trump pardon her? There’s no way she could get confirmed.

Posted by: Jen the original at November 25, 2025 09:59 PM (63x2o)

298 The overnight has begun.
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=417473

Posted by: mindful webworker - teacups down, beer mugs up at November 25, 2025 09:59 PM (LaTF/)

299 278 They're saying possibility of Sydney Powell replacing Bondi.
Earlier today I read about her being replaced but dismissed it as gossip. Now, General Flynn is talking about it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 25, 2025 09:44 PM (P9xGM)

Gen Flynn is a great guy but has oddball ideas.

Posted by: Joemarine at November 25, 2025 09:59 PM (y171U)

300 Kindltot: whatcha wanna bet the package inside the robot was fragile. :-P

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 10:01 PM (xqw19)

301 ONT

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 10:01 PM (xqw19)

302 Kindltot: whatcha wanna bet the package inside the robot was fragile. :-P
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 10:01 PM (xqw19)

No different handling that UPS, I am sure

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 10:02 PM (rbvCR)

303 Or fedex

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 10:02 PM (rbvCR)

304 I get tawny frogmouths in my yard. Nice birds. They eat all the cockroaches, mice and young rats.

Posted by: Bruce of Newcastle at November 25, 2025 10:17 PM (ecysd)

Trump Turns Turkey Pardoning Ceremony Into Roast of Joe Biden's Autopen Pardons

These pardons weren't signed by autopen. They'll hold up in court.


President Trump turned Tuesday's White House turkey pardon into a full-blown political roast, using the annual tradition to take a swipe at Joe Biden's "autopen" pardons and even joking that he briefly considered naming this year's birds "Chuck and Nancy."

...

Turning to Gobble and Waddle--described by Trump as "two of the fattest, happiest turkeys we've ever had here"--the president joked that when he first saw their photos, he almost went with "Chuck and Nancy." "But then I realized I wouldn't be pardoning them," he added. "I would never pardon those two people."

Gobble and Waddle join a long list of clemency actions in Trump's second term, a tally that already exceeds 1,700 pardons along with numerous commutations. Trump joked that several aides were prematurely preparing to send the birds through El Salvador's anti-gang confinement system--a reference to the administration's deportation push. "Even these turkeys don't want to go there," he said.

Trump also veered into Chicago crime. The president has repeatedly accused Pritzker and the city's mayor of refusing to work with him on a federal crime-reduction effort. "The mayor is incompetent and the governor is a big fat slob," Trump said, stressing that the prepared joke went too easy on Pritzker. "Some speechwriter wrote something about his weight. I don't talk about people being fat. I refuse to say he's a fat slob. I'd like to lose a few pounds too, by the way--and I'm not going to lose it on Thanksgiving."

Posted by: Ace at 06:20 PM




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1 Hilarious stuff

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 25, 2025 06:23 PM (UdiE9)

2 How can you not love this guy?
Lol

Posted by: Lizzy at November 25, 2025 06:23 PM (Hkcdp)

3 “The governor is a big, fat slob.”


Really, it needs to be said.
The man is repulsive, doesn’t matter how rich he and his family are.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 25, 2025 06:25 PM (Hkcdp)

4 When he called Pritzker a big fat slob I laughed

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at November 25, 2025 06:25 PM (VE6XX)

5 I think I saw someone note (in response to this) that Trump is funnier than most professional comedians now. Whether that is primarily a complement to Trump or an insult to most "comedians" I'll leave to others.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 25, 2025 06:26 PM (UdiE9)

6 Maybe he'll offer one to Mandani in NYC so he can pluck it.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 25, 2025 06:26 PM (abIsI)

7 Chuck and Nancy, ha ha ha!

Posted by: Lizzy at November 25, 2025 06:26 PM (Hkcdp)

8 4 When he called Pritzker a big fat slob I laughed
Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at November 25, 2025 06:25 PM (VE6XX)


Off sock/

Posted by: It's me donna at November 25, 2025 06:26 PM (VE6XX)

9 The man has wit

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 25, 2025 06:27 PM (xcxpd)

10 Pardoning is well and good for the kiddies, but I prefer a more realist view of the world.

I would like to see him hatchet the two birds and stick them in a funnel to drain the blood, and then have the chef cook them up.

We have to put these vanities on the bonfire. We are losing our civilization.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 25, 2025 06:27 PM (kIamG)

11 This guy knows his Alinsky rules for radicals.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 25, 2025 06:27 PM (Hkcdp)

12 Oh its the White Turkey that gets pardoned!!

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 06:27 PM (8avO+)

13 Yeah, bu, bu, but Trump didn't cut $2trillion out of the budget!!! -- Maj. Healy, Bulg, BurtTC and a bunch of other whiners from Nigeria, probably.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 25, 2025 06:30 PM (wBaIH)

14 11 This guy knows his Alinsky rules for radicals.
Posted by: Lizzy at November 25, 2025 06:27 PM (Hkcdp)

He's hitting two of them for sure and he cracks me up.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2025 06:30 PM (fGmWu)

15 10 I presume you are (mostly) trolling, but the tender-hearted "Charlotte's Web" approach to animals was a cultural marker that led us to our current suicidal empathy, so yeah, video taping the slaughter of farm animals for food would probably be good for society provided the animals are slaughtered in the normal manner and not by some deranged maniac.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 25, 2025 06:30 PM (UdiE9)

16 Scratch what I said above.

I would love to see J. D. cook them in a fryer out on the Rose Garden patio. While drinking a beer and telling the kids to stand back.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 25, 2025 06:30 PM (kIamG)

17 Fox News has video of the recent Tara Reid incident. Sigh. I just know I could fix her.

Posted by: gp at November 25, 2025 06:32 PM (4kcNT)

18 I really hate the tradition of "turkey pardons".

Just eat the damn thing!

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2025 06:32 PM (krQz2)

19 He's not getting my Wild Turkey - Nancy Pelosi slurring her words

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 06:33 PM (bfwj/)

20 Huffington Post description of this: Trump crudely attacks IL Governor." Oh, dear. Politicians never make rude remarks and Pritzker had never said a rude word about anyone/ sarc.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 06:33 PM (7RYym)

21 I would love to see J. D. cook them in a fryer out on the Rose Garden patio. While drinking a beer and telling the kids to stand back.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 25, 2025 06:30 PM (kIamG)

Wife beater and flip flops required.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 06:33 PM (zZu0s)

22 These pardons weren't signed by autopen. They'll hold up in court.
---
Not so fast!

They were signed by a non-Democrat!

Posted by: DC Judges at November 25, 2025 06:34 PM (krQz2)

23 Oh its the White Turkey that gets pardoned!!

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 06:27 PM (8avO+)

lol

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 25, 2025 06:34 PM (dK+Kv)

24 15 10 I presume you are (mostly) trolling,
Posted by: The Lower Depths

I'm not actually. I phrase it ambiguously but in reality I am terrified that "this thing of ours" is in for a very hard time if we do not wake up. Not about how we kill farm animals, but about how we protect ourselves from muslim conquest.

What we will have to do will make slaughtering a brace of turkey seem trivial.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 25, 2025 06:34 PM (kIamG)

25 Pardon them. Hell no. Dinner with all the fixins.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 25, 2025 06:34 PM (sDNVV)

26 One of my neighbors has about 6 turkeys that run around the neighborhood. Haven't seen them recently.

Posted by: wth at November 25, 2025 06:34 PM (v0R5T)

27 I presume you are (mostly) trolling, but the tender-hearted "Charlotte's Web" approach to animals was a cultural marker that led us to our current suicidal empathy, so yeah, video taping the slaughter of farm animals for food would probably be good for society provided the animals are slaughtered in the normal manner and not by some deranged maniac.
Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 25, 2025 06:30 PM (UdiE9)

I prefer the Beatrix Potter "cruel world" view. Disobey your mama and steal carrots -- near death sentence and have to run home naked (Peter Rabbit). -- Be wild and break things while Mom is out for a bit (Tom Kitten) -- giant rats come out of the walls and try and bake you into a pie

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 06:34 PM (8avO+)

28 So Trump Did NOT call Pritzker a "big fat slob?"

"Some speechwriter wrote something about his weight. I don't talk about people being fat. I refuse to say he's a fat slob. I'd like to lose a few pounds too, by the way--and I'm not going to lose it on Thanksgiving."

Posted by: illiniwek at November 25, 2025 06:35 PM (vbXSk)

29 Huffington Post description of this: Trump crudely attacks IL Governor." Oh, dear. Politicians never make rude remarks and Pritzker had never said a rude word about anyone/ sarc.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 06:33 PM (7RYym)
---
Really, we were having such a civil conversation before, in between them calling us fascists and racists, that is.

But all of a sudden Trump has to start calling names!

Posted by: DC Judges at November 25, 2025 06:35 PM (krQz2)

30 The man has wit
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

And the ability to use it.

Posted by: MkY at November 25, 2025 06:36 PM (q6tQZ)

31 'm not actually. I phrase it ambiguously but in reality I am terrified that "this thing of ours" is in for a very hard time if we do not wake up. Not about how we kill farm animals, but about how we protect ourselves from muslim conquest.

What we will have to do will make slaughtering a brace of turkey seem trivial.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 25, 2025 06:34 PM (kIamG)

It is less the Muslims, bad as they are as their enablers. The state supports every step they take.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 06:36 PM (8avO+)

32 "I'd like to lose a few pounds too"

The self-deprecation lightens the remark considerably.

Posted by: gp at November 25, 2025 06:36 PM (4kcNT)

33 Turning to Gobble and Waddle--described by Trump as "two of the fattest, happiest turkeys we've ever had here"--the president joked that when he first saw their photos, he almost went with "Chuck and Nancy." "But then I realized I wouldn't be pardoning them," he added. "I would never pardon those two people."
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lol

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2025 06:37 PM (0lawO)

34 OT: I had not been paying attention I guess for the past almost year. I did not realize Naughty Dog were trying to launch a new franchise- this time with a woke girl boss taking on *reads notes* Religion!

Neil Druckman really is a useless sack of shit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 06:37 PM (zZu0s)

35
Chinese takeout tonight. Tomorrow we have a lot of cooking to do.

Taking it easy tonight.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 25, 2025 06:37 PM (3ek7K)

36 When he called Pritzker a big fat slob I laughed
Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at November 25, 2025 06:25 PM (VE6XX)

Trump didn't call him that. It was his comedian speech writer. 😀

Posted by: the way I see it Dangerfield at November 25, 2025 06:37 PM (KDPiq)

37 Pardon them. Hell no. Dinner with all the fixins.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 25, 2025 06:34 PM (sDNVV)
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Like some other Turkey didn't already get the axe for the WH TG meal!

I'm not saying kill them, if you already got the turkeys you need procured.

The TG Pardon is just stupid, and kind of acts like the WH is not going to eat turkey this year.

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2025 06:37 PM (krQz2)

38 Huffington Post description of this: Trump crudely attacks IL Governor." Oh, dear. Politicians never make rude remarks and Pritzker had never said a rude word about anyone/ sarc.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 06:33 PM (7RYym)
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Really, we were having such a civil conversation before, in between them calling us fascists and racists, that is.

But all of a sudden Trump has to start calling names!
Posted by: DC Judges at November 25, 2025 06:35 PM (krQz2)

What kind of reporting is that? Pritzker IS fat, report the facts man

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 06:37 PM (8avO+)

39 Is there some park where the pardoned turkeys go until they expire?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2025 06:38 PM (0lawO)

40 24 It's not a matter of "we", it's a matter of the old letting the young do what needs to be done with only a little advice/oversight. If we weren't the first society with so damn many old people and so few young people, the problem would have been taken care of by local "Sons of Liberty" gangs a long time ago.

I'd go further and say that old(er) men yapping is the biggest weakness of the right in the US. RINOs are merely a symptom. If they did not exist, what would the old men have the complain about. I think a huge percent of the 13 Colonies were under the age of 20 in 1760. That was very helpful.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 25, 2025 06:38 PM (UdiE9)

41 The TG Pardon is just stupid, and kind of acts like the WH is not going to eat turkey this year.
Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2025 06:37 PM (krQz2)

The WH turkey under Trump is a bad, evil, but very flavorsome Turkey that is paying for his crimes.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 06:39 PM (8avO+)

42 Chinese takeout tonight. Tomorrow we have a lot of cooking to do.

Taking it easy tonight.
Posted by: fourseasons at November 25, 2025 06:37 PM (3ek7K)
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Tomorrow is cooking everything I can do in advance, finishing the cleaning, moving furniture and setting up.

Tomorrow will be pizza night.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2025 06:39 PM (0lawO)

43 Is there some park where the pardoned turkeys go until they expire?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2025 06:38 PM (0lawO)
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They go off to live on a farm with other turkeys.

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2025 06:39 PM (krQz2)

44 Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 25, 2025 06:38 PM (UdiE9)

Fuck you

Posted by: Benjamin Franklin at November 25, 2025 06:39 PM (KDPiq)

45 Via GP:
A DOJ employee was arrested and booked on terrorism and evidence tampering charges for doxxing a federal agent during a raid in Brownsville, Texas.

Karen Olvera De Leon, an employee with the US Attorney’s Office in Brownsville, appeared on a live stream of a federal raid on June 9.

A male joined the livestream and issued a death threat against one of the federal agents conducting a raid.

Another viewer of the livestream, later identified as Karen Olvera De Leon, doxxed the federal agent and provided his identity to the man issuing the death threat.

Posted by: Crusader at November 25, 2025 06:39 PM (TN0g+)

46 The TG Pardon is just stupid, and kind of acts like the WH is not going to eat turkey this year.
Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2025 06:37 PM (krQz2)
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Meh. It's a very silly and, in my opinion, endearing American tradition.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2025 06:39 PM (0lawO)

47 It's not a matter of "we", it's a matter of the old letting the young do what needs to be done with only a little advice/oversight. If we weren't the first society with so damn many old people and so few young people, the problem would have been taken care of by local "Sons of Liberty" gangs a long time ago.

I'd go further and say that old(er) men yapping is the biggest weakness of the right in the US. RINOs are merely a symptom. If they did not exist, what would the old men have the complain about. I think a huge percent of the 13 Colonies were under the age of 20 in 1760. That was very helpful.
Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 25, 2025 06:38 PM (UdiE9)

It's not old vs young. I'm old and voted for Reagan. And plenty of the young want to get on the liberal gravy train.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 06:40 PM (8avO+)

48 What does the Moron Horde think about Presidential pardons in general? (Completely taking away the Biden and Trump political angle.)

I am a very strong supporter of "Do the crime, do the time."

I have seen very few pardons by ANY Presidents for people that I thought actually deserved a pardon. ***

*** I agree that the J6 people were overcharged and became political prisoners to some degree. Disregard that aspect, what is the reason for pardoning actual criminals?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 25, 2025 06:41 PM (HlyYF)

49 44 LOL. Apparently one old man is offended. Good.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 25, 2025 06:41 PM (UdiE9)

50 I’m all for promoting a more realist view of life but hacking off a turkey’s head on live TV in front of the kids is probably not the best way to go about it

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at November 25, 2025 06:42 PM (HYKHz)

51
I bought a bag of the small yellow potatoes. Do you roast them in the oven?I. I'm thinking butter, garlic and seasonings.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 25, 2025 06:42 PM (3ek7K)

52 Pardoning turkeys is fake and gay.

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2025 06:42 PM (krQz2)

53 Posted by: DC Judges at November 25, 2025 06:35 PM (krQz2)

Yes; Good point .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 06:42 PM (ZeH0U)

54 fourseasons, au gratin.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 25, 2025 06:42 PM (sDNVV)

55 "I refuse to say he's a fat slob. "

It's like those folks who were not saying to disobey orders.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 06:43 PM (vFG9F)

56 I’m all for promoting a more realist view of life but hacking off a turkey’s head on live TV in front of the kids is probably not the best way to go about it

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at November 25, 2025 06:42 PM (HYKHz)

Yeah, that's real retarded, sir.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 25, 2025 06:43 PM (dK+Kv)

57 OT: I had not been paying attention I guess for the past almost year. I did not realize Naughty Dog were trying to launch a new franchise- this time with a woke girl boss taking on *reads notes* Religion!

Neil Druckman really is a useless sack of shit.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 06:37 PM (zZu0s)

Never try and stop your enemy when they are making a mistake. Another gob of Venture Capital gone and jobs lost in bad companies who do not know how to serve their customers.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 06:43 PM (8avO+)

58 Is there some park where the pardoned turkeys go until they expire?

I'm guessing a dog park.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 06:43 PM (a4flb)

59 Should have gone with Chuck and Nanzi, then had them for Thursday dinner

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 06:43 PM (+qU29)

60 I’m all for promoting a more realist view of life but hacking off a turkey’s head on live TV in front of the kids is probably not the best way to go about it

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at November 25, 2025 06:42 PM (HYKHz)
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You don't have to "condemn" them, for that matter, either.

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2025 06:43 PM (krQz2)

61 Pardoning turkeys is fake and gay.
Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2025 06:42 PM (krQz2)

Should the White House drop the WH Halloween celebration and Easter Egg hunt too.

Posted by: Benjamin Franklin at November 25, 2025 06:44 PM (KDPiq)

62 I have seen very few pardons by ANY Presidents for people that I thought actually deserved a pardon. ***

*** I agree that the J6 people were overcharged and became political prisoners to some degree. Disregard that aspect, what is the reason for pardoning actual criminals?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot

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There are a few people who Trump pardoned that the Left is screaming over. They claim that they are "supporters" and being pardoned because of that.

In reality, they were prosecuted because the were Trump supporters, and it is good and proper for Trump to undo the unfair and biased prosecutions, especially since the courts, juries, judges, and even defense conspired against them.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 25, 2025 06:44 PM (kIamG)

63

Ben, halve them?

Posted by: fourseasons at November 25, 2025 06:44 PM (3ek7K)

64 Is there some park where the pardoned turkeys go until they expire?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2025 06:38 PM (0lawO)
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Butterball Ranch.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 25, 2025 06:44 PM (IBQGV)

65 If you are hacking the turkey's head off you are doing it wrong.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 06:44 PM (vFG9F)

66
What's this I hear about some of You People saying "hearth" all wrong?

How do you say hearth?

a) herth
b) harth

Choose wisely.

Posted by: Campbell's Soup at November 25, 2025 06:44 PM (BihGC)

67 CIA Deep State Bush Senior was the one who started this tradition and now it all makes sense

Some claimed Truman started it but he in fact ate his bird

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at November 25, 2025 06:44 PM (HYKHz)

68 I’m all for promoting a more realist view of life but hacking off a turkey’s head on live TV in front of the kids is probably not the best way to go about it

How about biting the head off of it?

Posted by: Zombie Ozzie Osbourne at November 25, 2025 06:44 PM (a4flb)

69 I bought a bag of the small yellow potatoes. Do you roast them in the oven?I. I'm thinking butter, garlic and seasonings.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 25, 2025 06:42 PM (3ek7K)

you can, you can also boil them in brine. I have chopped them up into thick slices or quarters and cooked them in bacon grease for 20 minutes on low, and then cooked an egg on them on low for another 10 minutes or so, and then of course you can put gravy on top if you wish.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 06:44 PM (rbvCR)

70 They have to show that they can demonstrate compassion without turning all of society into violent chaos.

But they can't -- and the new breed doesn't even try.

Their attitude is You deserve it, Colonialist Oppressors.

So all of the illegals will have to go. If there's no protection for the citizens, there is certainly no protection for the fucking illegals.

Kick them out. Kick them all out.
=====

No, you must suffer for your compassion.

Its part of the kink.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 06:44 PM (znt4/)

71 I bought a bag of the small yellow potatoes. Do you roast them in the oven?I. I'm thinking butter, garlic and seasonings.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 25, 2025 06:42 PM (3ek7K)

think you can boil them in a pot too.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 06:44 PM (8avO+)

72 What does the Moron Horde think about Presidential pardons in general?
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I'm ok with it. Even overlooking the Biden and Trump angle, there are some convictions that for one reason or another should be at least open to a different outcome.

Posted by: Crusader at November 25, 2025 06:45 PM (TN0g+)

73 The two birds should have been named Mark and Kelly.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at November 25, 2025 06:45 PM (5yDGQ)

74 47 You're not following. Who do you think energetically deals with problems (like a horde of unwanted invaders moving in to your area?)? Beliefs don't matter. Hell, young guys mostly just want some direction and something to do. Young women want actual men. Instead the guys play video games and the women fantasize over farm animals and serial killers. Voting isn't what I'm talking about. Bob can have his local invaders removed in a fortnight. Our problem is that if anyone did anything locally we'd all be on here bitching about how things were done.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 25, 2025 06:45 PM (UdiE9)

75 fourseasons, thin sliced with cream and cheese.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 25, 2025 06:45 PM (sDNVV)

76 What's this I hear about some of You People saying "hearth" all wrong?

How do you say hearth?

a) herth
b) harth

Choose wisely.
Posted by: Campbell's Soup at November 25, 2025 06:44 PM (BihGC)

halfway between.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 06:45 PM (8avO+)

77 The pardoning of White House Turkeys pre-dates Charlotte’s Web by many years …

Posted by: Adriane the Amused by the Little Things Critic . . . at November 25, 2025 06:46 PM (3ZUWJ)

78 If you are hacking the turkey's head off you are doing it wrong.

I'm sure that there are Cultural Enrichers around who could demonstrate the art of hacking something's head off.

Posted by: CAIR Community Outreach at November 25, 2025 06:46 PM (a4flb)

79 Pardoning turkeys is fake and gay.
Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2025 06:42 PM (krQz2)

Should the White House drop the WH Halloween celebration and Easter Egg hunt too.
Posted by: Benjamin Franklin at November 25, 2025 06:44 PM (KDPiq)
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I don't think either of those amounts to a fabricated situation like a turkey pardon.

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2025 06:46 PM (krQz2)

80 Another gob of Venture Capital gone and jobs lost in bad companies who do not know how to serve their customers.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 06:43 PM (8avO+)

Granted. And at least it is not an OG, beloved IP. So in that sense it should be celebrated. You go, Neil! Show em all!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 06:46 PM (zZu0s)

81 JFK was the first president to "pardon" a turkey but old man Bush made it official

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 06:46 PM (bfwj/)

82 5 I think I saw someone note (in response to this) that Trump is funnier than most professional comedians now. Whether that is primarily a complement to Trump or an insult to most "comedians" I'll leave to others.
Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 25, 2025 06:26 PM (UdiE9)

The basis of all comedy, is cruelty. It can be talking about your Husband 'Fang' (Phyliss Diller), or yourself (Rodney Dangerfield), or slapstick like the Stooges (themselves)... or making fun of the Government or Society.... but there is always 'the butt' of the joke.

Comedians are afraid to be cruel now... or someone will complain and they will get cancelled.

Trump is not afraid to be cruel.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 06:46 PM (mP0Kj)

83 Pardoning turkeys is fake and gay.
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Trump should have a turkey drop instead, and televise it!

Posted by: Mr. Carlson at November 25, 2025 06:46 PM (TN0g+)

84 What's this I hear about some of You People saying "hearth" all wrong?

How do you say hearth?

a) herth
b) harth

Choose wisely.
Posted by: Campbell's Soup

Fireplace…

Posted by: Adriane the Amused by the Little Things Critic . . . at November 25, 2025 06:47 PM (3ZUWJ)

85
That sounds good Ben. We wanted something different from mashed ones this year.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 25, 2025 06:47 PM (3ek7K)

86 >>They go off to live on a farm with other turkeys.

The pardon was for being a turkey until today. Tomorrow the clock starts ticking again.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2025 06:47 PM (viF8m)

87 "think you can boil them in a pot too"

If any of you have an induction heater, you've probably already tried doing taters long ago, so I need not suggest it.

Posted by: gp at November 25, 2025 06:47 PM (4kcNT)

88 I think petting zoo has gotten pardon turkeys in past years

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 06:47 PM (+qU29)

89 think you can boil them in a pot too.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 06:44 PM (8avO+)

Mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 25, 2025 06:47 PM (dK+Kv)

90 What does the Moron Horde think about Presidential pardons in general?

They should have dragged out the Auto Pen and had a White House drone push a button.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 06:47 PM (a4flb)

91 First Pardoning: The first recorded instance of a turkey being spared was by President Abraham Lincoln, who reportedly pardoned a turkey at his son’s request during the Civil War.

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According to Web search, Lincoln was first to pardon one because his son Tad asked to. Given the average boy's attitudes I question this.

Most of the facts in this seems to be squishy.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 06:48 PM (8avO+)

92 Small yellow potatoes ? Cut them in quarters and fry them with onions

Posted by: It's me donna at November 25, 2025 06:49 PM (VE6XX)

93 JFK was the first president to "pardon" a turkey but old man Bush made it official

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 06:46 PM (bfwj/)
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And it was kind of quaint for a while.

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2025 06:49 PM (krQz2)

94 Trump is not afraid to be cruel.?

Is that why VDH reads Trump's social media posts?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 06:49 PM (a4flb)

95 We have flocks of wild turkeys in my urban environment. They jaywalk a lot, but I don't know how many may have been pardoned.

Posted by: gp at November 25, 2025 06:50 PM (4kcNT)

96 “Should the White House drop the WH Halloween celebration and Easter Egg hunt too?”

Yes.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at November 25, 2025 06:50 PM (zqeQL)

97 I don't think either of those amounts to a fabricated situation like a turkey pardon.
Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2025 06:46 PM (krQz2)

Rabbits don't even lay eggs! Its all A LIE!!!

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 06:50 PM (8avO+)

98 51 I bought a bag of the small yellow potatoes. Do you roast them in the oven?I. I'm thinking butter, garlic and seasonings.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 25, 2025 06:42 PM

I am NOT a good cook, and generally do only simple things.

My version on those little potatoes: bake them until almost done, then smush a crater in the middle with the back of a spoon, add a pat of butter with some grated cheese, crumbled bacon (and some sour cream for the people that like it). Bake for five more minutes and serve.

I can eat about five of them like that if I have been working at the farm.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 25, 2025 06:51 PM (HlyYF)

99 What's this I hear about some of You People saying "hearth" all wrong?

How do you say hearth?
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Like heart with a th instead of a t.

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2025 06:51 PM (krQz2)

100
"He hath eaten me out of house and home. He
hath put all my substance into that fat belly of his.
But I will have some of it out again, or I
will ride thee o’ nights like the mare."

-- Henry IV, Part 2


Posted by: Campbell's Soup at November 25, 2025 06:51 PM (BihGC)

101 Do the turkeys have to wear ankle monitors?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 25, 2025 06:51 PM (pkeXY)

102
WTFF??

Posted by: Soothsayer Shakes a Spear at You at November 25, 2025 06:52 PM (BihGC)

103 According to Web search, Lincoln was first to pardon one because his son Tad asked to. Given the average boy's attitudes I question this.

Most of the facts in this seems to be squishy.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 06:48 PM (8avO+)

Lincoln was a very effective politician, and may well have felt the mood about the war, as well as have been tired of killing as well. Might have been trying to foreshadow any plan of pardons for the South that he was considering.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 06:52 PM (rbvCR)

104 I missed the last thread.

He was charged with aggravated identity theft

Identity Theft: I'm you.

Aggravated Identity Theft: I'm you, motherf--ker!

Posted by: mikeski at November 25, 2025 06:52 PM (nhCoE)

105 84 What's this I hear about some of You People saying "hearth" all wrong?

How do you say hearth?

a) herth
b) harth

Choose wisely.
Posted by: Campbell's Soup

Fireplace…
Posted by: Adriane the Amused by the Little Things Critic . . . at November 25, 2025 06:47 PM (3ZUWJ)

/Sings and Dances

I hearth it through the grapevine....

Posted by: California Raisin at November 25, 2025 06:53 PM (mP0Kj)

106 I am NOT a good cook, and generally do only simple things.

My version on those little potatoes: bake them until almost done, then smush a crater in the middle with the back of a spoon, add a pat of butter with some grated cheese, crumbled bacon (and some sour cream for the people that like it). Bake for five more minutes and serve.

I can eat about five of them like that if I have been working at the farm.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 25, 2025 06:51 PM (HlyYF)

Seems like they would roll over on you. To you cut them in half or something?

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 06:53 PM (8avO+)

107 Do the turkeys have to wear ankle monitors?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 25, 2025 06:51 PM (pkeXY)

Don't be silly, only Bolsinaro needs to wear an ankle monitor

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 06:53 PM (rbvCR)

108 “Should the White House drop the WH Halloween celebration and Easter Egg hunt too?”

I think someone as classy as Trump should put out the 12' LowesDepot skeleton for Halloween and decorate the WH lawn with inflatable penguins and Santa for Excessmass.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 06:53 PM (a4flb)

109 104 Ha!

Posted by: gp at November 25, 2025 06:53 PM (4kcNT)

110 JFK was the first president to "pardon" a turkey but old man Bush made it official

Posted by: Smell the Glove

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I rest my case.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 25, 2025 06:53 PM (kIamG)

111 Bag of potatoes, 5 smashed garlic cloves, evoo, and malden salt flakes at 400 degrees 40 minutes.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 06:54 PM (znt4/)

112 My long held theory that the naturally funnier (where there is actual daylight) candidate wins every modern - post-1960ish -general election holds for every single one except 2020, mysteriously enough. It predicted Trump beating Hillary, Biden AND Kamala. Go through them, it just works.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 06:54 PM (E0p3T)

113 Mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 25, 2025 06:47 PM (dK+Kv)

That or cassava.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 06:54 PM (rbvCR)

114 Lincoln was a very effective politician, and may well have felt the mood about the war, as well as have been tired of killing as well. Might have been trying to foreshadow any plan of pardons for the South that he was considering.

He didn't make an effective use of social media though. That may have hurt him.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 06:55 PM (a4flb)

115 112 Rodney Dangerfield should have run.

Posted by: gp at November 25, 2025 06:55 PM (4kcNT)

116 He didn't make an effective use of social media though. That may have hurt him.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 06:55 PM (a4flb)

True, but he used telegraphic style in his speeches

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 06:55 PM (rbvCR)

117
PI,

That sounds yummy.

Wishing safe travels for all of you who are traveling.

Youngest son flew in today, no delays. He said the drive over here from SLC was not bad today. Tomorrow probably gonna be crazy.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 25, 2025 06:56 PM (3ek7K)

118 Rodney Dangerfield should have run.
Posted by: gp at November 25, 2025 06:55 PM (4kcNT)
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But he couldn't get no respect.

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2025 06:56 PM (krQz2)

119 He didn't make an effective use of social media though. That may have hurt him.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 06:55 PM (a4flb

He did kick ass with the televised state of the union address though.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 06:56 PM (HW6XE)

120 114 Lincoln was a very effective politician, and may well have felt the mood about the war, as well as have been tired of killing as well. Might have been trying to foreshadow any plan of pardons for the South that he was considering.

He didn't make an effective use of social media though. That may have hurt him.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 06:55 PM (a4flb)

Come on, the video of him killin Vampires?

LIT!

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 06:56 PM (mP0Kj)

121 Wasn't Tad Lincoln a tad 'special?'

Posted by: gp at November 25, 2025 06:56 PM (4kcNT)

122 I use gold potatoes for almost everything.

The little baby potatoes bother me - every now and then you get one that tastes like pocket change. It's like potato fuck your mouth roulette. I don't need that in my life.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 06:56 PM (E0p3T)

123 My version on those little potatoes: bake them until almost done, then smush a crater in the middle with the back of a spoon, add a pat of butter with some grated cheese, crumbled bacon (and some sour cream for the people that like it). Bake for five more minutes and serve.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 25, 2025 06:51 PM

Seems like they would roll over on you. To you cut them in half or something?

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 06:53 PM

I probably overcook them a bit.

Of course, once I smush the first one I notice that the others then lie VERY still!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 25, 2025 06:56 PM (HlyYF)

124
At the end of the ceremony, the turkey rancher triumphantly tore up the pardon.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2025 06:56 PM (RfDQK)

125 For gold potatoes, I do them one of two ways.

You can do them as a normal baked potato. Take a sheet of aluminum foil and grease it (oil works, butter is better). Wrap the potato in the greased foil and bake it for a while. Around an hour at 350 should do it, but keep an eye on it Unwrap 'em, cut 'em in half, go to town with whatever you like on a baked potato.

The other way is sort of roasted, which is my preference. Cut them in half long-ways and array them on a baking sheet. Put salt and pepper on them in quantities that match your preference. Put a generous - if it looks like too much, it's probably enough - amount of butter on each potato half. Use Irish butter if you have it. Bake for about an hour or so at 350. You can convert it to broil for a minute or two at the end to brown them if desired.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2025 06:56 PM (0lawO)

126 I think someone as classy as Trump should put out the 12' LowesDepot skeleton for Halloween and decorate the WH lawn with inflatable penguins and Santa for Excessmass.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 06:53 PM (a4flb)

How are you going to make gold leaf stick to an inflatable penguin?

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 06:57 PM (8avO+)

127 112 Did Carter come across as funny in 1976? He was a tiresome prig by 1979, but I don't know enough about Ford to say who was funnier in the 1976 election. Ford accidentally tripping doesn't count, or Biden would be the funniest presidential candidate in US history.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 25, 2025 06:57 PM (UdiE9)

128 Lincoln made Thanksgiving a formal national holiday.

Posted by: Benjamin Franklin at November 25, 2025 06:57 PM (KDPiq)

129 Of course, once I smush the first one I notice that the others then lie VERY still!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 25, 2025 06:56 PM (HlyYF)
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They get the message...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 25, 2025 06:57 PM (IBQGV)

130 Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 06:52 PM (rbvCR

Not trying to start the whole "war between the states", "war of Northern Aggression " Civil War stuff again, but it was Lincoln who established the Thanksgiving holiday in the middle of the war.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 06:57 PM (looXz)

131 I use ghee in my roasted potato mix. Always have it around for Indian cooking.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 06:58 PM (E0p3T)

132 What do jive turkeys cook for Thanksgiving?

Posted by: gp at November 25, 2025 06:58 PM (4kcNT)

133 39 Is there some park where the pardoned turkeys go until they expire?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2025 06:38 PM (0lawO)
Turkeyville, down in Florida.

Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2025 06:58 PM (LHPAg)

134 There's a large festering Nuzzi on my Anaconda.

Posted by: KEIFF OLBERMANN at November 25, 2025 06:58 PM (IByKi)

135 Reagan was funny.

Posted by: Benjamin Franklin at November 25, 2025 06:58 PM (KDPiq)

136 Did Carter come across as funny in 1976? He was a tiresome prig by 1979, but I don't know enough about Ford to say who was funnier in the 1976 election.

If you think pratfalls are funny, then Ford was your guy.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 06:58 PM (a4flb)

137 Oh, for method 2 in 125, they need to be face-up. And you need to score the potato, too, in both directions (down and across).

I suck at directions.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2025 06:58 PM (0lawO)

138 124
At the end of the ceremony, the turkey rancher triumphantly tore up the pardon.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2025 06:56 PM (RfDQK)

Turkey for dinnah!

Fed Pardons don't affect State charges...

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 06:58 PM (mP0Kj)

139 People! Meat is murder! Murder! Tofu feeds millions and millions of Orientals along with bugs, grass and tree bark and it's time everyone get on board with the future of food! Yeah! Oh Yeah! Racists!

Posted by: Chase Boutwell Jr., 38 year old Monster Child at November 25, 2025 06:58 PM (R/m4+)

140
Should the White House drop the WH Halloween celebration and Easter Egg hunt too.
Posted by: Benjamin Franklin at November 25, 2025 06:44 PM (KDPiq)
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I don't think either of those amounts to a fabricated situation like a turkey pardon.
Posted by: Axeman

=============

What, you think the Easter Bunny has hidden a bunch of eggs on the White House grounds?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2025 06:59 PM (RfDQK)

141 Off sock

Posted by: the way I see it at November 25, 2025 06:59 PM (KDPiq)

142 112 My long held theory that the naturally funnier (where there is actual daylight) candidate wins every modern - post-1960ish -general election holds for every single one except 2020, mysteriously enough. It predicted Trump beating Hillary, Biden AND Kamala. Go through them, it just works.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 06:54 PM

Obama isn't funny at all, so that doesn't work.

Oh wait, McCain and Romney actually have negative humor scores, so your theory still holds up!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 25, 2025 06:59 PM (HlyYF)

143 Oh wait, McCain and Romney actually have negative humor scores, so your theory still holds up!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 25, 2025 06:59 PM (HlyYF)
++++
Nixon might be the only charisma sink who ever won the presidency.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2025 07:00 PM (0lawO)

144 Potatoes are amazing. Virtually infinite ways to prepare them. We could spend all night coming up with recipes, no two the same.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 25, 2025 07:00 PM (IBQGV)

145 What, you think the Easter Bunny has hidden a bunch of eggs on the White House grounds?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2025 06:59 PM (RfDQK)

Yes. Why?

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 07:00 PM (E0p3T)

146
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. By the time Christmas Day arrives I think a lot of people are worn out.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 25, 2025 07:00 PM (3ek7K)

147 How are you going to make gold leaf stick to an inflatable penguin?
Posted by: Oldcat

That's not what I'm pondering, Pinky.

Posted by: The Brain at November 25, 2025 07:00 PM (nhCoE)

148 114 Lincoln was a very effective politician, and may well have felt the mood about the war, as well as have been tired of killing as well. Might have been trying to foreshadow any plan of pardons for the South that he was considering.

He didn't make an effective use of social media though. That may have hurt him.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 06:55 PM

"87% of all internet quotes are fabricated."

-- Abraham Lincoln

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 25, 2025 07:00 PM (HlyYF)

149 Obama isn't funny at all, so that doesn't work.

Oh wait, McCain and Romney actually have negative humor scores, so your theory still holds up!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 25, 2025 06:59 PM (HlyYF)

I deleted my little voxplainer on that one - you are correct Obama isn't funny, but both of those idiot opponents were DOA sticks in the mud.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 07:01 PM (E0p3T)

150 139 People! Meat is murder! Murder!

Posted by: Chase Boutwell Jr., 38 year old Monster Child at November 25, 2025 06:58 PM (R/m4+)

Yes, delicious, mouth watering.... murder....

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 07:01 PM (mP0Kj)

151 143 Oh wait, McCain and Romney actually have negative humor scores, so your theory still holds up!
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 25, 2025 06:59 PM (HlyYF)
++++
Nixon might be the only charisma sink who ever won the presidency.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2025 07:00 PM (0lawO)
________
John Adams?

Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2025 07:01 PM (s0JqF)

152 Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. By the time Christmas Day arrives I think a lot of people are worn out.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 25, 2025 07:00 PM (3ek7K)

You are supposed to STOP with the turkeys between those dates.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 07:01 PM (8avO+)

153 Nixon might be the only charisma sink who ever won the presidency.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2025 07:00 PM (0lawO)
________
John Adams?
Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2025 07:01 PM (s0JqF)

Nixon appeared on the comedy show "Laugh In"

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 07:02 PM (8avO+)

154 lol

Cracker Barrell CEO went on Glen Beck’s show to grovel for the rubes to come back to her shitty restaurants.

She no longer had the thick rimmed black glasses either. Guess her PR team told her to de-AWFLize herself.

How that bitch wasn’t fired is a mystery. She has to have photos of board members with live boys or dead girls.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 07:02 PM (HW6XE)

155 145 What, you think the Easter Bunny has hidden a bunch of eggs on the White House grounds?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2025 06:59 PM (RfDQK)

Yes. Why?
Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 07:00 PM (E0p3T)
_______
Thinks Biden is still there.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2025 07:02 PM (s0JqF)

156 Nixon might be the only charisma sink who ever won the presidency.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2025 07:00 PM (0lawO)

Come on... he was a funny guy... even did a bit on Rowan and Martin's Laugh In.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 07:03 PM (mP0Kj)

157 Nixon might be the only charisma sink who ever won the presidency.
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Yeah, but I think he appeared on "Laugh In".

Posted by: Mr. Carlson at November 25, 2025 07:03 PM (TN0g+)

158 Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. By the time Christmas Day arrives I think a lot of people are worn out.
Posted by: fourseasons

You are supposed to STOP with the turkeys between those dates.
Posted by: Oldcat

But what if you have four weeks worth of leftovers, Brain?

Posted by: Pinky at November 25, 2025 07:03 PM (nhCoE)

159 What, you think the Easter Bunny has hidden a bunch of eggs on the White House grounds?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2025 06:59 PM (RfDQK)
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So does the president write an XO to hire the Easter Bunny to hide eggs on the lawn?

That would be close to an equivalent.

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2025 07:03 PM (krQz2)

160 The dogeater was funny.

*hold out hand horizontally, palm down, fingers spread; waggles"

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 07:03 PM (vFG9F)

161 What, you think the Easter Bunny has hidden a bunch of eggs on the White House grounds?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2025 06:59 PM (RfDQK)

Yes. Why?
Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 07:00 PM (E0p3T)
_______
Thinks Biden is still there.
Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2025 07:02 PM (s0JqF)
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You might not want the surprises Joe hid around the grounds.

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2025 07:03 PM (krQz2)

162 Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. By the time Christmas Day arrives I think a lot of people are worn out.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 25, 2025 07:00 PM (3ek7K)

Same here. Love TG, but all the build up to Christmas for a month after is too fucking much.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 07:04 PM (HW6XE)

163 You know who else is very funny. Of course intelligent witty humor . Ted Cruz.

His spontaneous acting out a Princess Bride scene on the Adam Carolla podcast was moron worthy.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 25, 2025 07:04 PM (KDPiq)

164 "Did he say big, fat pig?"

- Caesar

"I believe he did, sire."

- The little fag

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2025 07:04 PM (Wnv9h)

165 "Nixon appeared on the comedy show "Laugh In"
Posted by: Oldcat"

He asked the nation to sock it to him.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 07:05 PM (vFG9F)

166 You don't want any of the "chocolate eggs" left over from the Biden administration.

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2025 07:05 PM (krQz2)

167 Cook a potato with a defibrillator in only six seconds:
youtube.com/watch?v=egOda1dKNKU

Posted by: gp at November 25, 2025 07:05 PM (4kcNT)

168 Thanksgiving and Jewish Thanksgiving (Passover) are my favorite holidays, and they're conveniently right around six months apart!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2025 07:05 PM (0lawO)

169 posted by: a Triple Laugh-In Hordemind

Sock it..... to me?

Posted by: zombie Richard Nixon at November 25, 2025 07:05 PM (nhCoE)

170 Nixon was on Laugh-In to be unfunny.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 07:05 PM (A0sqA)

171 Fenelon, he also said in a speech and letters that one way to get rid of an enemy was to make him your friend. I think on that comment often.

I recently read a story of Sherman's troops, where one unit was resting on the front lawn of a plantation house during a march, while the women of the plantation were watching them carefully from the porch, and one of the men noticed the ground where he was laying had been disturbed. With a whoop to his buddies that he had found treasure buried to keep it from the Union soldiers, they started digging and unearthed a reeking box that turned out to have the decayed body of a spaniel in it.

One of the ladies on the porch commented archly, "Poor Curly isn't destined to find peace in this world or the next, that's the third time he's been dug up today."

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 07:05 PM (rbvCR)

172 Come here turkey
I still want to stab someone

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 25, 2025 07:05 PM (gDlxJ)

173 Potatoes are amazing. Virtually infinite ways to prepare them. We could spend all night coming up with recipes, no two the same.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 25, 2025 07:00 PM (IBQGV)

I sometimes bake one and put about 5 different condiments on them in sections. (I have a bad habit of buying odd condiment bottles and never using them)

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 07:05 PM (8avO+)

174 Nixon was on Laugh-In to be unfunny.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 07:05 PM (A0sqA)
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And DC socked it to him.

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2025 07:06 PM (krQz2)

175
The basis of all comedy, is cruelty. It can be talking about your Husband 'Fang' (Phyliss Diller), or yourself (Rodney Dangerfield), or slapstick like the Stooges (themselves)... or making fun of the Government or Society.... but there is always 'the butt' of the joke.

Comedians are afraid to be cruel now... or someone will complain and they will get cancelled.

Trump is not afraid to be cruel.
Posted by: Romeo13

==============

Just to turn you on to someone who's funny right now, have you seen Andy Huggins on YouTube (or elsewhere)? He's this very old guy who makes jokes about his age. "As for social media, you can find me on the bulletin board at Kroger's, and MyChart."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2025 07:06 PM (RfDQK)

176 162 Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. By the time Christmas Day arrives I think a lot of people are worn out.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 25, 2025 07:00 PM (3ek7K)

Same here. Love TG, but all the build up to Christmas for a month after is too fucking much.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Scrooges!

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 25, 2025 07:06 PM (W2Pud)

177 "Nixon appeared on the comedy show "Laugh In"
Posted by: Oldcat"

He asked the nation to sock it to him.
Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 07:05 PM (vFG9F)

He won his next election over McGovern.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 07:07 PM (8avO+)

178 So does the president write an XO to hire the Easter Bunny to hide eggs on the lawn?

That would be close to an equivalent.

I think Trump should make a fusion of the plastic eggs and Pardons by stashing Pardon Coupons in each egg, then letting your typical Babylon DC riff raff compete to find them.

would look like the wilder scenes from the movie "300".

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 07:07 PM (a4flb)

179 Scrooges!
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 25, 2025 07:06 PM

*proffers bag*

Humbug?

Ebeneezer Blackadder

Posted by: Ebeneezer Blackadder at November 25, 2025 07:09 PM (Wnv9h)

180

nurse,

Youngest son had a. 5 am flight out of Seatac this morning. He said it was no problem at the airport today.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 25, 2025 07:09 PM (3ek7K)

181 You are supposed to STOP with the turkeys between those dates.
Posted by: Oldcat

But what if you have four weeks worth of leftovers, Brain?
Posted by: Pinky at November 25, 2025 07:03 PM (nhCoE)

Sounds like a planning issue., Pinky.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 07:09 PM (8avO+)

182 Gemini AI is just daring us to try this: "It is not possible or safe to cook a potato in a microwave horn antenna. A horn antenna is a scientific or engineering component designed to direct microwaves for measurement or communication purposes, not for food preparation."

Posted by: gp at November 25, 2025 07:09 PM (4kcNT)

183 Sometimes I type things yall would be happy that I also deleted.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 07:10 PM (vFG9F)

184 Cut/paste fail.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2025 07:10 PM (Wnv9h)

185
fd,

Lol.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 25, 2025 07:10 PM (3ek7K)

186 "It is not possible or safe to cook a potato in a microwave horn antenna"

BS. AI is FOS.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 07:11 PM (vFG9F)

187 I wouldn't pardon any of them either, turkeys yes, scumbag politicians, hell no.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at November 25, 2025 07:11 PM (qZdIZ)

188 Sometimes I type things yall would be happy that I also deleted.
Posted by: fd

Poppycock. That's half the charm of this place.

Posted by: mikeski at November 25, 2025 07:11 PM (nhCoE)

189 This bikini brunette loves both Thanksgiving *and* Christmas, and thinks the presidential turkey pardon is a bit of silly fun:
http://tiny.cc/n7mv001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2025 07:13 PM (0lawO)

190 He won his next election over McGovern.

Well, McGovern was liberal hot garbage.

Posted by: Zombie Ed Muskie, closeted homosexual and communist yankee at November 25, 2025 07:13 PM (R/m4+)

191 One of the ladies on the porch commented archly, "Poor Curly isn't destined to find peace in this world or the next, that's the third time he's been dug up today."
Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 07:05 PM (rbvCR)

I always liked that when Union troops were restricted to using the top rail of the common split rail fences for firewood on marches, the troops quickly reasoned that if they didn't like the owner that the other rails were now "top rails" and used them too. And patriotic southern Chickens and Pigs sometimes assaulted the poor troops.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 07:14 PM (8avO+)

192 Joe she looks nice

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 07:14 PM (+qU29)

193 190+ comments on a thread featuring turkeys, and only one instance of "jive"?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 25, 2025 07:14 PM (0sNs1)

194 Zombie Ed Muskie, closeted homosexual and communist yankee
====

And crybaby

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 07:15 PM (A0sqA)

195 Woodrow Wilson was a first class charisma sink

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 07:15 PM (bfwj/)

196 Woodrow Wilson was a first class charisma sink
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 07:15 PM (bfwj/)

Especially after the stroke.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 07:15 PM (8avO+)

197 How that bitch wasn’t fired is a mystery. She has to have photos of board members with live boys or dead girls.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 07:02 PM (HW6XE)

Or the pardoned turkeys

Posted by: Beartooth at November 25, 2025 07:15 PM (0714D)

198 190+ comments on a thread featuring turkeys, and only one instance of "jive"?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 25, 2025 07:14 PM

Fine.

"It ain't cool to be no jive turkey so close to Thanksgiving."

- Big Black Guy

"Yeah."

- Even Bigger Black Guy

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2025 07:16 PM (Wnv9h)

199 190+ comments on a thread featuring turkeys, and only one instance of "jive"?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 25, 2025 07:14 PM (0sNs1)

well two now...or three?

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 07:17 PM (8avO+)

200 I always liked that when Union troops were restricted to using the top rail of the common split rail fences for firewood on marches, the troops quickly reasoned that if they didn't like the owner that the other rails were now "top rails" and used them too. And patriotic southern Chickens and Pigs sometimes assaulted the poor troops.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 07:14 PM (8avO
On the other hand, Stonewall fined some of his 'Foot Cavalry' for stealing fence rails in MD and PA.

Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2025 07:17 PM (LHPAg)

201 34 OT: I had not been paying attention I guess for the past almost year. I did not realize Naughty Dog were trying to launch a new franchise- this time with a woke girl boss taking on *reads notes* Religion!

Neil Druckman really is a useless sack of shit.

I find it difficult to believe but i think people might hate the Bald Chick in that new stupid game even more than AbbyZilla. I think because the actor playing the Bald Chick is also an annoying a**hole.

Posted by: Nelly at November 25, 2025 07:17 PM (Yjkx/)

202 190+ comments on a thread featuring turkeys, and only one instance of "jive"?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 25, 2025 07:14 PM (0sNs1)
+++
There is now!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2025 07:19 PM (0lawO)

203 157 Yeah, but I think he appeared on "Laugh In". - Mr. Carlson

I remember seeing that. Was completely caught off guard. Nixon said "Sock it to me?" I thought it was sort of funny, although the intonation - emphasis on "me" - was weird.

Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2025 07:20 PM (mADJX)

204 On the other hand, Stonewall fined some of his 'Foot Cavalry' for stealing fence rails in MD and PA.
Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2025 07:17 PM (LHPAg)

In the GBurg campaign they had organized teams going about grabbing horses, cattle, and free blacks and carrying them South. Stonewall was dead by then though.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 07:20 PM (8avO+)

205 There's nothing jive about turkey that is tender and juicy, carved well, and served warm.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 07:20 PM (A0sqA)

206 I think because the actor playing the Bald Chick is also an annoying a**hole.
Posted by: Nelly at November 25, 2025 07:17 PM (Yjkx/)

She certainly has a Lunchables face.

Posted by: Ike Turner at November 25, 2025 07:21 PM (zZu0s)

207 Fine.

"It ain't cool to be no jive turkey so close to Thanksgiving."

- Big Black Guy

"Yeah."

- Even Bigger Black Guy

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2025 07:16 PM (Wnv9h)

------------

"Quite stealing my schtick, brothers!"
-- Ace's Alter-Ego, Lamont The Big Dummy

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 25, 2025 07:21 PM (cjvQp)

208 End of year Commenter Reviews and Appraisals are approaching fast, and that ain't no jive. You're running out of time to impress Ace and the CoBs.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 25, 2025 07:21 PM (0sNs1)

209 Lol.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 07:22 PM (zZu0s)

210 NOOD cafe

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 07:23 PM (vZ7A2)

211 End of year Commenter Reviews and Appraisals are approaching fast, and that ain't no jive. You're running out of time to impress Ace and the CoBs.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 25, 2025 07:21 PM

Wait, whut?! I haven't even entered my annual commenter goals yet!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2025 07:23 PM (Wnv9h)

212 I always liked that when Union troops were restricted to using the top rail of the common split rail fences for firewood on marches, the troops quickly reasoned that if they didn't like the owner that the other rails were now "top rails" and used them too. And patriotic southern Chickens and Pigs sometimes assaulted the poor troops.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 07:14 PM (8avO+)

in the Oregon territory the troops were not well supplied and had a bad habit of shooting the odd "slow bear" which was what they called a free range pig.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 07:25 PM (rbvCR)

213 I remember seeing that. Was completely caught off guard. Nixon said "Sock it to me?" I thought it was sort of funny, although the intonation - emphasis on "me" - was weird.

Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2025 07:20 PM (mADJX)

------------

Are we sure it wasn't Rich Little?

He had a short-lived variety show back in the mid-70s, didn't he?

I remember one skit where he's playing Robin to somebody playing Batman, and he said something like:

"Holy Exposure, Batman -- I've got a rip in my leotard!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 25, 2025 07:25 PM (cjvQp)

214 End of year Commenter Reviews and Appraisals are approaching fast, and that ain't no jive. You're running out of time to impress Ace and the CoBs.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 25, 2025 07:21 PM

Wait, whut?! I haven't even entered my annual commenter goals yet!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2025 07:23 PM (Wnv9h)

-------------

My performance review by Ace and The COBs last year was a single line:

"Strives for mediocrity, and comes up short ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 25, 2025 07:27 PM (cjvQp)

215 John Adams? - Eeyore

Are you kiddin'? John Adams, not funny? I hear he was the life of the party. Used to wear his powdered wig under his chin and pretend to be Santa Claus, and squeeze the ladies' bums, shouting, "Oh ho! There's a ripe one!"

Thomas Jefferson was the guy who sat in the corner drinking lemonade and doing crossword puzzles (in ink, of course).

Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2025 07:28 PM (mADJX)

216 Are we sure it wasn't Rich Little? - ShainS

No, definitely Nixon. You can look it up on YouTube.

Btw, David Frye did a hilarious Nixon.

Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2025 07:31 PM (mADJX)

217 208 End of year Commenter Reviews and Appraisals are approaching fast, and that ain't no jive. You're running out of time to impress Ace and the CoBs. - Duncanthrax

Meh. I'm just interested in the Cost-of-Living increase.

Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2025 07:33 PM (mADJX)

Amazing: The New York Times Profiles an Illegal Alien Who Stole an American Man's Identity and Caused Him 20 Years of Legal Nightmares.
The Times Say They're Both Victims.

Via David Strom, who quotes the New York Times asserting that both the citizen whose identity was stolen, and the identity thief himself, are both victims of the same broken system and equally deserving of our sympathies.

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Dan Kluver saw the police lights flashing in his rearview mirror late last year and eased his car onto the shoulder, thinking there had been some kind of mistake. He had spent four decades in rural Minnesota without ever getting into trouble. He prided himself on a life built around dependability and routine, working at the same factory where his father once did and spending his weekends coaching baseball and teaching Sunday school. He had never fired a gun, or smoked a cigarette, or missed a payment, or been arrested.

"License and registration, please," the officer said. Kluver, 42, handed them over and waited while the officer went back to his patrol car. He listened to the church bells that rang every hour and watched sunlight reflect off the grain silos in downtown Olivia, where he knew most of the 2,400 residents, including the officer who was walking back to his car.

"Is everything all right?" Kluver asked.

"It's strange, but it looks like your license has been suspended," the officer said. "You've got another driver's license with some issues down in Missouri."

"What?" Kluver said. "I've barely ever been to Missouri. How's that possible?"

The officer had no answers, but Kluver feared he might know what was happening. Over the years, there had been signs that something wasn't right -- stray letters about wages earned in unfamiliar towns and collection notices for debt that wasn't his. Kluver had tried to untangle the mess several times by hiring tax specialists and driving to government offices across the state only to run into the same bureaucratic dead ends. But now the problem was bigger than unpaid taxes. Someone was impersonating him, moving through the world as Dan Kluver, building a life in his name with a government-issued ID.

The identity thief used his Social Security to illegally work. The thief kept the money paid for his illegal labor -- but this citizen got "credited" with the thief's salary, which pushed his tax liabilities up, pushing him, in fact, into a higher tax bracket.

He was expected to pay the taxes on the thief's earnings while the thief kept the earnings himself.

As you can see, they were both victims here.

...

Some years the other Dan Kluver had earned more than his own salary at a local sugar beet factory, which pushed the total income under his Social Security number into a higher tax bracket as the debt started to mount. Twice, he'd contacted law enforcement and filed an identity theft report with the federal government, where it landed in a pile along with tens of thousands of similar reports filed each year. He waited for relief while the I.R.S. docked his annual tax returns and garnished a few of his paychecks, costing him thousands. Finally, a few months before their wedding in 2012, Kristy decided to pay off the balance, emptying her savings and sending in a check for $6,000. Their relief lasted until the next tax season, when a new bill arrived -- this one for $22,000.

They spent the next decade living with the consequences -- annual tax audits, budgets that never added up, whispered arguments after the kids went to bed. Kluver kept calling government numbers and waiting on hold until he eventually resigned himself to a payment plan. He agreed to send the I.R.S. $150 each month, which he'd done more than 35 times. "I can't keep obsessing over this and getting nowhere," he told Kristy. "I need to think about something else."

Now the Times turns to the thief. I mean, The Other, More Deserving Victim.

He had lived under enough names and numbers in the United States that they started to blur together. Vincent Trujillo. Reynaldo Guerra. And then, for more than a decade, Daniel Kluver -- the name he used until he could barely remember what it felt like to exist as himself: Romeo Pérez-Bravo, 42, a Guatemalan immigrant who had spent most of his adult life working under borrowed identities.

"Borrowed." They won't even say "stolen."

...

Perez-Bravo had come to the United States for the first time at 16 to help earn money for his family, traveling alone to join his father in Marshall, Minn. He hiked out of the Guatemalan highlands, rode atop a freight train for three weeks across Mexico, nearly drowned in the Rio Grande and took a Greyhound to Middle America, where life somehow felt harder. He slept on a couch in his father's apartment and enrolled in high school despite speaking almost no English. Then he began to look for a job, but no one would hire an underage worker without papers.

No one would hire an illegal immigrant barred by the law from working, you mean.

He's definitely the victim. He was forced to steal Dan Kluvin's identity and make his life a living hell.

Read the whole thing from David Strom. The New York Times continues doubling down on the narrative that the first victim of Perez-Bravo's serial identity theft was... Perez-Bravo himself.



The narrative, man. Stick to the narrative. The law-abiding citizen whose life is being turned upside-down may be a victim, but Perez-Bravo has a story to tell, too.


This is exactly the kind of logic that lets criminals walk the streets after tens of arrests. They are people too, so if you look at it the right way, everybody is a victim.

And Kluver is white, so really, he is the privileged one and should be happy to help out his brown brother, who suffers from oppression that is almost as bad as Michelle Obama's.

And he also "paid the price."


He was charged with aggravated identity theft and false representation of a Social Security number and was held in detention for six weeks before an initial bond hearing in April. The State of Missouri argued that he was a flight risk who needed to remain in custody until the trial. "What's to stop him from going out and getting another identity and just living underneath that," the prosecutor told the judge. "We've seen that before."

But Perez-Bravo had most of his family and several members of his church at the hearing, and his lawyer said that he was "connected to the city in deep ways."

The Times believes that it was outrageous for the prosecutor to assert that this serial identity thief might just steal another identity and flee the court's jurisdiction under a new name if he were set free.

Absolutely outrageous! He has "deep" "connections" to the city he's currently living illegally in!

Amber Duke was herself a victim of a identity thief.

Almost as much a victim of identity thief as the identity thief herself.

She doesn't think her identity thief was the Real Victim Here.


About seven years ago, my identity was stolen in a data breach. I found out fairly quickly because one of the thieves made a mistake: the receipts for their fraudulent purchases were sent to my email address. It still took almost two weeks to shut down the accounts opened in my name and clear them from my credit reports. I was constantly stressed and paranoid and couldn't focus on anything else in my life until my credit was cleared and locked down.

I was lucky that I caught the identity theft early. Some people spend years digging themselves out after someone else pretends to be them.

...

Pérez-Bravo had stolen multiple identities throughout his time in the U.S. While living here, he got several DUIs. He was deported in 2005, 2008 and 2009 but came back each time and stole another American's info.


...

The story gets even more unbelievable from there. Pérez-Bravo was involved in a fatal accident that killed a 68-year-old grandfather and injured his 9-year-old granddaughter. He was cleared of wrongdoing but the family filed a wrongful death suit against Kluver, whose name was on the fake license Pérez-Bravo provided at the scene.

The police eventually found Pérez-Bravo and he has been charged for his crimes. Nonetheless, the NYT report paints him as just as much a sympathetic victim as Kluver, describing him as a family man and hard worker who essentially had no choice but to steal an identity so he could make money for his family.

I'm so sick of it.

If liberals want to impose liberal policies on the country, they have to at least make sure the worst excesses of those policies are checked.

They cannot allow maniacs to prowl the subway stations throwing grandmothers in front of trains, for example.

And they cannot lionize criminal identity thief illegals.

They have to show that they can demonstrate compassion without turning all of society into violent chaos.

But they can't -- and the new breed doesn't even try.

Their attitude is You deserve it, Colonialist Oppressors.

So all of the illegals will have to go. If there's no protection for the citizens, there is certainly no protection for the fucking illegals.

Kick them out. Kick them all out.

Posted by: Ace at 05:20 PM




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1 yup

Posted by: Auspex at November 25, 2025 05:21 PM (Y8DZL)

2 Hola

Posted by: Dick the Bruiser at November 25, 2025 05:23 PM (5IH8V)

3 nooded

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 05:23 PM (RuTUS)

4 Kick them out. Kick them all out.

This.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 05:23 PM (77rzZ)

5 I'm so sick of it.

Kick them out. Kick them all out.

That won't solve all of America's problems...but it was solve a bunch of them.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 05:23 PM (sKqQm)

6 I guess this is that suicidal empathy you keep hearing about

I don't seem to have that

OUT THUGS

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 05:24 PM (emBoF)

7 Hey lawyers, is it true identity theft is not a crime per se?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 25, 2025 05:24 PM (GhIJO)

8 Yeah. These people all suck.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 05:24 PM (zZu0s)

9 Our government paid NGOs to find
Our government paid NGOs to bring them here
Our government paid NGOs to give them lawyers
And now our government gives them welfare.

We need to go beyond ICE and start offering bounties for the illegals AND those at NGOs that brought them here.

It was all a criminal conspiracy from the start

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 05:25 PM (sKqQm)

10 Kick them out. Kick them all out.

That won't solve all of America's problems...but it was solve a bunch of them.
Posted by: 18-1

I dunno. If you include all Dems and GOPe in "them" it would come close to solving all our problems.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 05:25 PM (77rzZ)

11 Fuck the New York Times.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 25, 2025 05:25 PM (xcxpd)

12 Fuck the New York Times.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Hmmm. A new idea for my bunk time...

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 05:26 PM (77rzZ)

13 Kick them out. Kick them all out.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 25, 2025 05:26 PM (Cjt/F)

14 Since there is no way for the law to touch these judges, the only solution is Crazy Maxine's. Make their lives a living Hell.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2025 05:26 PM (s0JqF)

15 This is where we end up with ideas like "restorative justice".

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 05:26 PM (3uBP9)

16 This is the kind of story that doesn't get printed often. I'm shocked NYT acknowledged this actually happened, even though they try to paint is as both being victims.

The identity theft guy has a lengthy record of crimes as well. He should have everything confiscated and turned over to the guy whose identity he stole.

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 25, 2025 05:26 PM (IifOV)

17 Speaking of empathy I notice leftwing forums are full of statements like:

Trump deported by good friend Jose. He was here peacefully how dare that Trump [more whining]. And oh by the way does anyone else have a recommendation for a cheap landscaper? The Americans around here are greedy as hell and I'm not paying that much!

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 05:27 PM (sKqQm)

18 "Liberal" is the most ridiculously inaccurate to the point of meaningless term in use today. The people involved have no connection whatsoever to any liberal concept or policy. Just ignorant power-mad totalitarian social engineers with varying degrees of racism.

Oh well.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 25, 2025 05:27 PM (U/Byj)

19 He should have everything confiscated and turned over to the guy whose identity he stole.
Posted by: Frank Baron

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I like that idea

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 25, 2025 05:27 PM (6U1c2)

20 "The Times Say They're Both Victims".

Hey, NYT, now do Lincoln and Booth.

Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2025 05:28 PM (mADJX)

21
Businesses caught hiring illegals should have an IRS Audit, and heavy, heavy penalties. Enough is enough.

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 25, 2025 05:28 PM (IifOV)

22 We need to go beyond ICE and start offering bounties for the illegals AND those at NGOs that brought them here.

It was all a criminal conspiracy from the start

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 25, 2025 05:28 PM (Cjt/F)

23 Trump deported by good friend Jose. He was here peacefully how dare that Trump [more whining]. And oh by the way does anyone else have a recommendation for a cheap landscaper? The Americans around here are greedy as hell and I'm not paying that much!


oh I see you live near me!

"Free Carlos!"

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 05:28 PM (emBoF)

24 When you think about it, a rapist who gets caught has to go to jail and be publicly accused of sex crimes. So they're both victims there too.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 25, 2025 05:28 PM (xcxpd)

25 "Liberal" in 2025 means you want to put any politician or celebrity you disagree with on almost any issue in prison.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 05:28 PM (sKqQm)

26 Posted by: rhomboid at November 25, 2025 05:27 PM (U/Byj)

That's why I call them leftists.

Posted by: Iasonas at November 25, 2025 05:28 PM (gUzGB)

27 My idea would be that like in Sitcoms the Judge would sentence the illegal to be this guy's slave for as long as he used his identity. Hilarity ensues!

Posted by: Alec Leamas at November 25, 2025 05:28 PM (ssz2a)

28 12 Fuck the New York Times.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Hmmm. A new idea for my bunk time...
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 05:26 PM (77rzZ)

Kink-y!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 25, 2025 05:29 PM (xcxpd)

29 Everyone needs some credit monitoring service. It’s pretty cheap $10/mo usually. Get it and check it often. Any new debt will show up there and you can take action. And on top of that lock your credit at all 3 credit bureaus, transunion, experian and equitable. This way no credit checks can be done on you. Without that it’s tough to open new accounts.

It’s not 100% full proof but goes a long way in stopping this kind of nightmare from happening.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 05:29 PM (HW6XE)

30 Let's just think a bit about what happens when 10% of the US population leaves.
Lower food, housing and medical costs. Lower insurance (especially auto). Higher wages across the board.
Less crime (so even lower insurance).
Cheaper ammo costs, cause everyone feels just a tad bit safer...
What have I missed?

Posted by: MkY at November 25, 2025 05:29 PM (q6tQZ)

31 Stick Guatemalan man on a boat, send it out into international waters, and have it droned. Bonus: let Dan Kluver watch the video footage in real time.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at November 25, 2025 05:29 PM (5yDGQ)

32 How does one "borrow" an identity?

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2025 05:29 PM (QMAsf)

33
the Rolling New York Stones?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Listicles at November 25, 2025 05:29 PM (BihGC)

34 Posted by: MkY at November 25, 2025 05:29 PM (q6tQZ)

Less traffic

Posted by: Iasonas at November 25, 2025 05:29 PM (gUzGB)

35 >>18 "Liberal" is the most ridiculously inaccurate to the point of meaningless term in use today. The people involved have no connection whatsoever to any liberal concept or policy. Just ignorant power-mad totalitarian social engineers with varying degrees of racism.

yeah, I haven't said "liberal" in forever. I don't know why I used it here. Seems so quaint. Like it's 1997 or something.

Posted by: ace at November 25, 2025 05:30 PM (1wjle)

36 I have several "identity/bank/title" services to monitor my vast wealth and properties. "Vast"

I got an alert about a piece of property in PA that I do not own. Nor have ever looked at. A title search, in my name (which is as far removed from "Smith" as you can get) that I did not authorize.

I think... even today.... it was a fluke. An error.

But, I continue to monitor.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2025 05:30 PM (NwnyJ)

37 20 "The Times Say They're Both Victims".

Hey, NYT, now do Lincoln and Booth.
Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2025 05:28 PM (mADJX)

"They were both vile racists who became victims of the war, a pair of casualties ; but these men were more than statistics..."

-Ken Burns, probably

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 25, 2025 05:30 PM (xcxpd)

38 And this - and a zillion other data points like it - are why it is impossible to be optimistic about the illegal migration/border/sovereignty/rule of law catastrophe actually ever being fixed.

The deadweight, the anchors around our necks, of so many tens of millions of people who regard this kind of NYT nonsense as anything other than delusional, and of course the collapse or corruption of the institutions.

Didn't the bishops' conference also beclown and degrade themselves with some idiotic moral narcissistic destructive hate-filled crap about immigration enforcement?

Enjoying the speed bump, not so sure it's any more than that.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 25, 2025 05:30 PM (U/Byj)

39 Two people are dead because this scum is in the country. That should be the NY Times headline.

But the leftist pols in the US and Europe are using an immigration system to get rid of Western Civilization that they hate. So there's no use wishing they will come around.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 25, 2025 05:31 PM (n5tGW)

40 How does one "borrow" an identity?
Posted by: Doof

One borrows an identity just as one borrows a car, goes on a burglary spree, wrecks the car, and leaves your fingerprints all over the suspect vehicle.

Posted by: MkY at November 25, 2025 05:31 PM (q6tQZ)

41 Ace is gradually working his way to my position. If the new breed of leftist can't be reasoned with, you need to get rid of their props (criminals both native and alien). That's Ace's current position.

My further position (which he and others will eventually get to), is that if these leftists aren't bound to any kind of shared ethics like Kennedy or Carter arguably were, we have to get rid of the leftists too.

Hell, we should give stays of deportation to illegals who will help us get rid of native born leftists. That would be amusing (and then we could make money broadcasting the results).

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 25, 2025 05:31 PM (UdiE9)

42 Will the NYT be profiling the guy who set the young woman on fire in Chicago?

Posted by: Iasonas at November 25, 2025 05:31 PM (gUzGB)

43 Two people are dead because this scum is in the country. That should be the NY Times headline.


Then: If it saves one life!

Now: Meh, so some people died. Its like, not a lot or anything

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 05:31 PM (sKqQm)

44 Victim....nyt keeps using that word, I do not think it means what they think it means.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 25, 2025 05:31 PM (0N4FZ)

45 New York Post@nypost
Bodycam shows escaped ‘Slender Man’ stabber Morgan Geyser busted with transgender friend

-
Do NOT click on this link!

https://is.gd/egrUSM

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 05:32 PM (L/fGl)

46 btw I had someone from another country take EITC using my SSN

it sucked

I still have to file hard copy because of this

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 05:32 PM (emBoF)

47 Hey, NYT, now do Lincoln and Booth.
Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2025 05:28 PM (mADJX)

"They were both vile racists who became victims of the war, a pair of casualties ; but these men were more than statistics..."

-Ken Burns, probably
-----

ABC had a 2-hour show on the JFK Assassination last night. It was clear from the first few minutes that ABC wasn't really interested in a "fair" playing field in covering it--the deck was stacked in favor of the official explanation from the outset.

Posted by: Crusader at November 25, 2025 05:32 PM (TN0g+)

48 How does one "borrow" an identity?
Posted by: Doof

Hi, I'm Doof! Free Rush and Pickleball for all!

Also, President Trump, please send the National Guard to Carmel, California!

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 05:32 PM (77rzZ)

49
I hate fucking monkeys poor people.

Posted by: Campbell's Soup at November 25, 2025 05:33 PM (BihGC)

50 Why is it that, when a criminal steals an innocent person's identify, the thieving becomes the resonsibility of the innocent person? If someone steals my credit card information and uses it to buy lavish means at Applebee's, I feel like Applebee's and the credit card company got scammed. I'm a disinterested third party to their credulity, right?

Posted by: Oglebay at November 25, 2025 05:33 PM (2ap+5)

51 That could be a Babylon Bee story--pure satire.

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at November 25, 2025 05:34 PM (kTd/k)

52
"But he has children!!"

So what. Lots of terrible people had children. I'm tired of having "Think of the children!!" thrown in everyone's faces as an excuse for everything from taxes to genital mutilation.

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 25, 2025 05:34 PM (IifOV)

53 "Liberal" is the most ridiculously inaccurate to the point of meaningless term in use today. The people involved have no connection whatsoever to any liberal concept or policy. Just ignorant power-mad totalitarian social engineers with varying degrees of racism.

yeah, I haven't said "liberal" in forever. I don't know why I used it here. Seems so quaint. Like it's 1997 or something.
Posted by: ace at November 25, 2025 05:30 PM (1wjle)

My mother used to complain about "Liberal" being stolen. Since it happened something like 80 or 90 years ago at least I don't fret it the same way.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 05:34 PM (8avO+)

54 I hate fucking monkeys poor people.

Its an acquired taste.

Better if they pretty clearly don't want lil Bill too

Posted by: Bill Clinton at November 25, 2025 05:35 PM (sKqQm)

55 Why is it that, when a criminal steals an innocent person's identify, the thieving becomes the resonsibility of the innocent person? If someone steals my credit card information and uses it to buy lavish means at Applebee's, I feel like Applebee's and the credit card company got scammed. I'm a disinterested third party to their credulity, right?
Posted by: Oglebay at November 25, 2025 05:33 PM (2ap+5)

If you are fast enough you might get them to write it off.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 05:35 PM (8avO+)

56 So what. Lots of terrible people had children. I'm tired of having "Think of the children!!" thrown in everyone's faces as an excuse for everything from taxes to genital mutilation.
Posted by: Frank Barone at November 25, 2025 05:34 PM (IifOV)

Yeah same with “separating families” yeah tough shit. A car thief’s family is separated when he goes to prison. That’s his fault not the police who arrest him or the jury that convicts him.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 05:35 PM (HW6XE)

57 You can't even make fun of the Left anymore. They are a parody of a parody of a satire of a joke of weapons grade pure Colombian uncut bullshit.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 05:35 PM (E0p3T)

58 I don't like fake sob stories and unearned sympathy

we all got problems
life's tough- wear a helmet

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 05:35 PM (AOsQT)

59 I saw another news report this morning about a guy who was being deported from Boston after 50 years.

The news left out the fact that he spent most of that time in prison.
For murder.

This must be the journ-o-list talking point for the week.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 25, 2025 05:35 PM (kIamG)

60 My mother used to complain about "Liberal" being stolen. Since it happened something like 80 or 90 years ago at least I don't fret it the same way.
Posted by: Oldcat

It was adopted by the left because that asshole Wilson sullied the term "Progressive."

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 05:36 PM (77rzZ)

61 They are all criminals from the get go and the old fairy tale about Jose and his abuela coming here to find a better "life" is straight up bullshit. They come here to take from those stupid enough to let them take, and take and take and then they laugh about it. Kick them out and any idiot that married one, kick them out too. Businesses that hire them should be severely punished, banks etc. too.

Posted by: Kick Them All Out at November 25, 2025 05:36 PM (R/m4+)

62 >>> I'm so sick of it.

If liberals want to impose liberal policies on the country, they have to at least make sure the worst excesses of those policies are checked.
----

I have another requirement. Those liberals must always be the first in line to suffer the consequences of their actions. I'm ok with liberals trying whatever stupid, dangerous crap, and the rest of us observing it all from a distance.

"Oh, look the liberals are dying in a trash dumpster of their own stupidity. Oh well, I guess that's a good lesson for the rest of us, way over here."

But no, they are always nicely firewalled from the consequences of their actions.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 05:36 PM (3uBP9)

63


Big picture is these people are being used by the commies in a color revolution.

I feel we're on the trailing end and its going to be hard to change the course.

They have the cities, even if they get a lot worse, they have their underclass that can't move.

I wonder why Desantis and Abbott sent all these idiots to cities at great expense.

Maybe they didnt pay for it, and maybe someone else is controlling the flows.

Posted by: Rev DR E Buzz at November 25, 2025 05:36 PM (och2J)

64 "But he has children!!"

We had some actual refugee from the current German Reich. The Reich decided that homeschooling is verboten and was going to send the parents to prison.

Biden sent them back

So...f*ck any leftist that claims to be worried about the children of refugees.

Posted by: Bill Clinton at November 25, 2025 05:36 PM (sKqQm)

65
What is more pathetic is that there were years that the illegal was making more income than the US citizen whose identity was stolen.

All the social security the illegal paid into the guys account he should be able to keep.

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 25, 2025 05:36 PM (IifOV)

66 Round them all up. Kick all their asses out.
Never allow any of them a legal pathway in. Ever.
Caught reentering: for men 5 lashes then deportation.

Every illegal out.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at November 25, 2025 05:37 PM (SS/71)

67 The deadweight, the anchors around our necks, of so many tens of millions of people who regard this kind of NYT nonsense as anything other than delusional, and of course the collapse or corruption of the institutions.


The millstones are the elites that enforce it, not the people in general.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 05:37 PM (8avO+)

68 Progressivism kind of took over a while back.

Social justice was new (but just a coat of paint on same old shit.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 05:37 PM (zZu0s)

69 I have another requirement. Those liberals must always be the first in line to suffer the consequences of their actions. I'm ok with liberals trying whatever stupid, dangerous crap, and the rest of us observing it all from a distance.

Straight off of No Kings the governor of MA was demanding Trump lower the costs of heating oil.

Note the governor of MA specifically stopped new NG pipelines in her state.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 05:37 PM (sKqQm)

70 Wait, I'm starting to realize that Ace is actually the victim when he "borrows" the identity of Lamont the Big Dummy.

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2025 05:37 PM (QMAsf)

71 Imagine how insufferable and smug is the AWFL klatch where this article is discussed approvingly.

The clucking and the preening as they each try to out-empathy the others vying for social status as "most caring for the poor," where the loser has to pay for the brunch with her husband's AmEx card.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 05:37 PM (T3zUV)

72 18 "Liberal" is the most ridiculously inaccurate to the point of meaningless term in use today. The people involved have no connection whatsoever to any liberal concept or policy. Just ignorant power-mad totalitarian social engineers with varying degrees of racism.

Oh well.
Posted by: rhomboid at November 25, 2025 05:27 PM (U/Byj)
_________
Actually, it makes sense. It refers to a belief in total autonomy; free from anything that might limit one.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2025 05:38 PM (s0JqF)

73 In a just world the American victim of this fraud would sue and win a ton of money from the employers who allowed it to happen.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 05:38 PM (HW6XE)

74 The IIRS needs to refund the victim plus interest

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 25, 2025 05:38 PM (dE3DB)

75 I remember theorizing here back around 2009 that Obama and Co wanted nothing more than to turn the entire world into a great big college campus.

The mainstream headlines we now see every four seconds are the EXACT bs we were subjected to by the worst of the faggot retarded sociowhatever Left in college.

I was correct. Those people are now writing the music of our lives.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 05:38 PM (E0p3T)

76 I had my identity stolen some years back. No one would help me I went to the state police and all they did was give me a case number. Whoever got my identity was local because he kept opening cell phone and internet accounts in my name and actually got a town dump pass using my identity. He even voted in my place once which I find extremely disturbing and insane.


He opened an ebay account with my info and sold tons of fake stuff on it before it finally caught up with him. I found out one night when some random guy called me about a $64,000 antique guitar I was supposedly selling on ebay. He got suspicious and looked my real name up and called our home phone instead of the ebay listing number. We had to lock everything down but he kept opening cell phone accounts in my name for months after that.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 25, 2025 05:39 PM (0N4FZ)

77 Another story out of my home state. Marshall MN was mentioned, that is a tiny town in SW MN. Farm country. When I was growing up, MN was 90% white. No more. Diversity is not our strength.

Posted by: beckster at November 25, 2025 05:39 PM (I7J98)

78 All the social security the illegal paid into the guys account he should be able to keep.
Posted by: Frank Barone

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Nope. I hear they are diligent about removing that and putting it into a special fund. I have not figured out what they do with it though. Probably parties.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 25, 2025 05:39 PM (kIamG)

79 73 In a just world the American victim of this fraud would sue and win a ton of money from the employers who allowed it to happen.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Yes

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 25, 2025 05:39 PM (gDlxJ)

80 America is victimized by the NYT.
Trump should RICO the NYT.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 25, 2025 05:39 PM (P9xGM)

81 TV newsie introduced "we have our favorite vegetable", but meant veterinarian.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 25, 2025 05:40 PM (XmK3B)

82 New York Post@nypost
Bodycam shows escaped ‘Slender Man’ stabber Morgan Geyser busted with transgender friend

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 05:32 PM (L/fGl)

Another tranny / furry / psycho. And slender man stabbing is that even Canon?

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 05:40 PM (8avO+)

83 ace and Lamont is more like stolen valor.

ace and chuy is more like stolen pica de gallo.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 05:40 PM (zZu0s)

84 Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 25, 2025 05:39 PM (0N4FZ)

Insane!!

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 05:41 PM (E0p3T)

85 It's going to be fun watching the NYT deal with Mamdani. Things are going to get bad with his band of incompetent ideologues running the city. Will the Times report that or be the mayor's propaganda ministry? If members of the Times are the victims of crimes will it change any narrative? Inquiring minds want to know

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 05:41 PM (bfwj/)

86 Businesses caught hiring illegals should have an IRS Audit, and heavy, heavy penalties. Enough is enough.

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 25, 2025 05:28 PM (IifOV)


And that would be the most effective way of removing them (along with eliminating all welfare payments) without all the attendant hand-wringing about poor mothers and children being rounded up. They would self-deport because they couldn't afford to live here!.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at November 25, 2025 05:41 PM (0t1wa)

87 TV newsie introduced "we have our favorite vegetable", but meant veterinarian.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 25, 2025 0

Hey come on give ‘em a break those are both long words with many syllables.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 05:41 PM (HW6XE)

88 Another tranny / furry / psycho. And slender man stabbing is that even Canon?
Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 05:40 PM (8avO+)

I thought Slender man was a really disturbing sighting portending doom and not like, the Predator (OG, scary Predator.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 05:41 PM (zZu0s)

89 If liberals want to impose liberal policies on the country, they have to at least make sure the worst excesses of those policies are checked.
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This is internally impossible. The premise here is nonsensical. The only point in pursuing a policy is to pursue it to its maximum level. Even if that isn't the *intent,* it absolutely will be the *outcome.* All policies are pursued to their maximum absurdity. This is one of many reasons the originalist policy of, essentially, "have no policy at all wherever possible" is so valuable - it, too, is pursued to its maximum until policy changes.

This is inevitable. The leftists' policies will be pursued to the maximum. No checks. No limits. It can be no other way. Same goes for non-leftist policy, of course, but I prefer non-leftist policies in general.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2025 05:42 PM (0lawO)

90
The dems see all the illegals as the 60's coke commercial people standing cliff side holding a coke bottle singing "I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony...."

When really most are a bunch of grifting opportunists with 3rd world views of morality, justice, fairness and decency. They don't want to buy you a coke, they want you to buy them a coke, and they'll bash you over the head with the empty bottle take your wallet and start charging stuff on your credit card.

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 25, 2025 05:43 PM (IifOV)

91 If Trump tally wanted to mass deport he’d institute a $100k fine per illegal per day caught working for any business.

Thats how you stop it. If nobody hired them they go home. And if the risk outweighs the reward for hiring them, businesses will think long and hard before hiring them.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 05:43 PM (HW6XE)

92 66 Round them all up. Kick all their asses out.
Never allow any of them a legal pathway in. Ever.
Caught reentering: for men 5 lashes then deportation.

Every illegal out.
Posted by: The Man from Athens at November 25, 2025 05:37 PM (SS/71)

Last night my 34 year old Son told me I was a Racist because I said 'America is full'... we only have so many resources, and we have enough people.

Even though I would stop almost ALL immigration, no matter what their Race is... the immediate attack was of course, I was a Racist.

It's a reflex action from Liberals... surprised I wasn't called a Nazi yet.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 05:43 PM (mP0Kj)

93 Yeah same with “separating families” yeah tough shit. A car thief’s family is separated when he goes to prison. That’s his fault not the police who arrest him or the jury that convicts him.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 05:35 PM (HW6XE)

The best response to "separating families" is to strip the family of citizenship and send them too

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 05:43 PM (8avO+)

94 >>> Do NOT click on this link!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 05:32 PM (L/fGl)


The nice people at MindHead always help me in these situations.


But I want to click on the link!

MindHead: You must never click on the link.

I really feel like clicking on the link would be ...

MindHead: You must never click on the link ... You remember the exercise that we've been working on?

don'tclickthelink don'tclickthelink don'tclickthelink

MindHead: Feeling better?

Yeah. I don't know what I was thinking. ha [looks at link] I don't even want to click on the sexy sexy link.

MindHead: Banana! Stop!

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 05:44 PM (3uBP9)

95 They have to show that they can demonstrate compassion without turning all of society into violent chaos.
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Since when does "compassion" have anything to do with anything? They barely even mouth the words anymore, and they never had any meaning.

It isn't about being "good" or "moral" or "compassionate" or whatever. It can't be even if that was the initial intent (which I doubt). A person can be charitable or compassionate or whatever else, but an institution cannot be. Institutional compassion is a contradiction in terms and trying to make one - or pretending to be one - can lead only to pathological excess of whatever it is the institution is doing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2025 05:45 PM (0lawO)

96 Last night my 34 year old Son told me I was a Racist because I said 'America is full'... we only have so many resources, and we have enough people.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 05:43 PM (mP0Kj)

Ask him to pick up the check at the next 400 meetings you have. Since he has infinite resources.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 05:45 PM (8avO+)

97 "Their attitude is You deserve it, Colonialist Oppressors."

Exactly. The Leftists are operating as if all crimes committed by minorities against whypipo are victimless crimes. And operating as if all crimes by whypipo against minorities are capital crimes. Sickening.

Posted by: Gref at November 25, 2025 05:45 PM (5rh/l)

98 Big or small, deport them all.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 25, 2025 05:45 PM (0sNs1)

99 The escaped killers trannie friend looks like Andy Dick.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 05:45 PM (bfwj/)

100 I have a cheaper way than credit monitoring to keep you safe from identity theft:

Ruin your own credit.
Super easy. Not hard at all. Let some bills go. Stop paying cards.

Keep that shit below 500 and no worries.
Get it closer to 400 and even utilities won't sign you up.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 05:45 PM (HXT0k)

101 >It was adopted by the left because that asshole Wilson sullied the term "Progressive."
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they never say what they are progressing toward
like the people in this picture- where are they going

https://shorturl.at/2ZeJS

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 05:45 PM (AOsQT)

102 82 New York Post@nypost
Bodycam shows escaped ‘Slender Man’ stabber Morgan Geyser busted with transgender friend

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 05:32 PM (L/fGl)

Another tranny / furry / psycho. And slender man stabbing is that even Canon?
Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 05:40 PM (8avO+)

He's not gay, but his boyfriend is!

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 05:45 PM (mP0Kj)

103 Leftism in a nutshell: there is no moral difference between the arsonist and the firefighter.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 25, 2025 05:46 PM (ed7qO)

104 They have to show that they can demonstrate compassion without turning all of society into violent chaos.
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Since when does "compassion" have anything to do with anything? They barely even mouth the words anymore, and they never had any meaning.

It isn't about being "good" or "moral" or "compassionate" or whatever.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2025 05:45 PM (0lawO)

it is not compassion, its a club for beating you into submission.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 05:46 PM (8avO+)

105 As Chris Plante often says, these are not Liberals.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 05:46 PM (vFG9F)

106 I am so pissed off today
Feeling stabby

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 25, 2025 05:46 PM (GhIJO)

107 Our doctor, nurse, and teacher shortages go away.

Posted by: huerfano at November 25, 2025 05:46 PM (98kQX)

108 Kick them out. Kick them all out.
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Ever single last man, woman, child, dog, flea and tick. Back over the border.

After expropriating all property owned by one of them. Bank accounts, cash, cars, extra clothes, whatever. If there's an illegal alien, his balance is zeroed, his assets are liquidated and all of it is transferred to the state to retire the debts he racked up. Then he's sent back home. He can keep the clothes on his back and any medicine in his possession.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2025 05:47 PM (0lawO)

109 100 I have a cheaper way than credit monitoring to keep you safe from identity theft:

Ruin your own credit.
Super easy. Not hard at all. Let some bills go. Stop paying cards.

Keep that shit below 500 and no worries.
Get it closer to 400 and even utilities won't sign you up.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 05:45 PM (HXT0k)

LOL... I've got a substantial stock account... own my Car and Home outright... Get Soc Sec and Military retirement checks every month...no debt at all, don't even HAVE a credit card... and because of no debt, my Credit Score keeps dropping.

As I don't need it... I find it amusing.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 05:48 PM (mP0Kj)

110 Another tranny / furry / psycho. And slender man stabbing is that even Canon?
Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 05:40 PM (8avO+)

I thought Slender man was a really disturbing sighting portending doom and not like, the Predator (OG, scary Predator.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 05:41 PM (zZu0s)

I'm not up on the details but a prosaic hacker/slasher seems mundane to me too.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 05:48 PM (8avO+)

111 Leftism in a nutshell: there is no moral difference between the arsonist and the firefighter.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 25, 2025 05:46 PM (ed7qO)

But those who disagree -- they are demons from hell.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 05:49 PM (8avO+)

112 >>> As I don't need it... I find it amusing.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 05:48 PM (mP0Kj)


Truth is, they need you a lot more than you need them.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 05:49 PM (3uBP9)

113 From the text in the Slender Man link:

who stopped her 150 miles away from her group home at a truck stop in Posen, Illinois.

Wow I didn't know Illinois was that bad, group homes at truck stops? Thanks, Gov. Spritzer!

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at November 25, 2025 05:50 PM (8hxDK)

114 Since when does "compassion" have anything to do with anything? They barely even mouth the words anymore, and they never had any meaning.

It isn't about being "good" or "moral" or "compassionate" or whatever.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2025 05:45 PM (0lawO)

it is not compassion, its a club for beating you into submission.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 05:46 PM (8avO+)

It is not either Compassion, nor Charity, for the State to take YOUR money, and give it to someone who should not even be in this country.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 05:50 PM (mP0Kj)

115 I asked my then Congressman about the stolen identity question at a townhall to no avail. The Catholic church and the local newspaper wrote this same scenario 10 years ago.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 25, 2025 05:50 PM (sDNVV)

116 Last night my 34 year old Son told me I was a Racist because I said 'America is full'... we only have so many resources, and we have enough people.

Even though I would stop almost ALL immigration, no matter what their Race is... the immediate attack was of course, I was a Racist.
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I think its a simpler story than we're full. We lock our personal residence (even if one rents). We do that because we choose who we allow to enter, and when, and under what circumstances. There are people who I would let in were they to drop by at 6 in the evening that aren't gaining entry at 2 in the morning. There are other people who won't be allowed entry at all.

Why would running a country's borders be any different than managing one's front door?

Posted by: Crusader at November 25, 2025 05:51 PM (TN0g+)

117 Also, freeze your credit accounts. Yes, it's a pain in the ass. Yes, if you want credit in the future, you have to find out which bureau(s) the lender uses and unfreeze it for a temporary period to let them process it.

But freezing your credit is free and a very effective step to thwart identity fraud. It stops not only falsely-issued credit, but stops many other uses of your identity. Utility companies, landlords, etc. often run credit and it blocks that. Banks always will, and it will block accounts being opened in your name. It won't block other uses of your SSN, but it significantly reduces your attack surface.

You can do "credit monitoring" if you want to, but freezing your credit is free and effective.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2025 05:51 PM (0lawO)

118 From the text in the Slender Man link:

who stopped her 150 miles away from her group home at a truck stop in Posen, Illinois.

Wow I didn't know Illinois was that bad, group homes at truck stops? Thanks, Gov. Spritzer!
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at November 25, 2025 05:50 PM (8hxDK)

does it still work as a truck stop?

probably just crappy newswriting though

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 05:52 PM (8avO+)

119 BY THE WAY, I think this episode is an actual case of what limp leftists like to call "Gaslighting" (but they use for everything they don't like).

Prestige legacy institution commands you to have empathy for a scumbag scofflaw who ruined the life of an actual American citizen for years punctuated by taking the life of another actual American citizen. If they can twist you into not shooting this asshole out of a Circus Canon over the border, who can we ever rid ourselves of?

Posted by: Alec Leamas at November 25, 2025 05:52 PM (ssz2a)

120 Leftists don't believe in American exceptionalism. They never did. They think America is just another dot on a map. And if they have their way it will be.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2025 05:52 PM (viF8m)

121 How are we colonial oppressors when they invade out country? I do not understand the New York Times AI machine's proposal that a criminal is as much a victim as his victims (note the plural.)

Posted by: moki at November 25, 2025 05:52 PM (wLjpr)

122 How are we colonial oppressors when they invade out country? I do not understand the New York Times AI machine's proposal that a criminal is as much a victim as his victims (note the plural.)
Posted by: moki at November 25, 2025 05:52 PM (wLjpr)
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Because words have no meaning in the revolutionary worlds of the left.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2025 05:53 PM (0lawO)

123 It is not either Compassion, nor Charity, for the State to take YOUR money, and give it to someone who should not even be in this country.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 05:50 PM (mP0Kj)

and in violation of THEIR OWN laws.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 05:53 PM (8avO+)

124 At this point I have to think the NYT is intentionally writing rage-bait articles to keep a few customers on the hook for subscriptions so they can write comments to the articles or "letters to the editor" or something.

I dunno, I wouldn't subscribe to that rag. *shrugs*

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 25, 2025 05:53 PM (O7YUW)

125 Anyone think these illegal vermin somehow just stole these victims’ identifies on their own? Oh no. Identify theft is big business.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at November 25, 2025 05:54 PM (19Bvr)

126 Leftists don't believe in American exceptionalism. They never did. They think America is just another dot on a map. And if they have their way it will be.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2025 05:52 PM (viF8m)
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If only this were true.

Leftists absolutely believe in American exceptionalism. America is exceptionally bad. Exceptionally immoral. Exceptionally cruel. Exceptionally evil. America and Americans must, therefore, be exceptionally punished. We are not merely another dot in a sea of dots. We must be destroyed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2025 05:55 PM (0lawO)

127 116 Last night my 34 year old Son told me I was a Racist because I said 'America is full'... we only have so many resources, and we have enough people.

Even though I would stop almost ALL immigration, no matter what their Race is... the immediate attack was of course, I was a Racist.
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Thanksgiving dinner is going to be lit.
I'm not looking for a fight, but I'm not letting the leftists at the table get away with throwing out their socialist TDS crap and getting away with it. "Just let it go. It's not worth it" is going out the window. The reason these leftists feel so emboldened is because the rational people have let them get away with it for so long. They need to feel the burn of their stupidity. Relations be damned. I'm tired of this. It is insidious and gets into everything. No more.

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 25, 2025 05:55 PM (IifOV)

128 Leftists don't believe in American exceptionalism. They never did. They think America is just another dot on a map. And if they have their way it will be.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2025 05:52 PM (viF8m)

Not just another dot, the most evil dot. And yet they live here and use all the facilities.

I always like the 'Man without a Country' who cursed America so they put him on a boat for life and cut all references to America out of his books and news.

Navy was based back then.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 05:55 PM (8avO+)

129 New York Post@nypost
Bodycam shows escaped ‘Slender Man’ stabber Morgan Geyser busted with transgender friend

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

I was home sick and watched on Court TV the day that 'mental health' professionals appeared before a Judge saying that Geyser was A-Okay to be released from the Mental Hospital back in to society. The Judge gave her conditional release to a group home. The lawyers on TV were dumbfounded and asked during the break if the Judge and these mental health bozos would be comfortable having her in their homes baby sitting their kids. Well we see how this all worked out. Group homes are not confinement and ankle bracelets are easily dismantled. The defund police crowd wants these same mental health social workers policing criminals.

Posted by: Cheri at November 25, 2025 05:56 PM (oiNtH)

130 Anyone think these illegal vermin somehow just stole these victims’ identifies on their own? Oh no. Identify theft is big business.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at November 25, 2025 05:54 PM (19Bvr)
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Yup and I seriously doubt this is an Eastern European organized crime activity (though they are big in this business). My bet is very firmly on this being enabled and brokered by the Quango network, backed with US taxpayer dollars.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2025 05:56 PM (0lawO)

131 The defund police crowd wants these same mental health social workers policing criminals.
Posted by: Cheri at November 25, 2025 05:56 PM (oiNtH)

I'd love to see them try, as long as the regular cops arrest them when they run away and avoid doing their job.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 05:57 PM (8avO+)

132 Here's the great substack econ article I saw earlier:

https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/
part-1-my-life-is-a-lie


It starts out a little zerohedgish, not jew blaming, none of that, I mean the putting everything in obscure trading terms. But that's just the beginning. The rest is a really good read about the current economy and why things are bad for people. I recommend reading it.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 05:58 PM (3uBP9)

133 Posted by: Frank Barone at November 25, 2025 05:55 PM (IifOV)

He apologized this morning... and knows I'm still pretty damn pissed off, so my guess is he will be on good behavior for awhile.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 05:58 PM (mP0Kj)

134 I saw a posting that compared the deportations and protests between Bush, Clinton, Obama and Trump. Trump had only a fraction of the deportations, but hundreds more protests.

Trump has only 1.2 million deportations. Rookie numbers.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 25, 2025 05:59 PM (wBaIH)

135 The dems see all the illegals as the 60's coke commercial people standing cliff side holding a coke bottle singing "I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony...."


And what if they don't sing in perfect harmony? What do you intend to do with "the world" then?

What narcissists.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 05:59 PM (a4flb)

136 I was home sick and watched on Court TV the day that 'mental health' professionals appeared before a Judge saying that Geyser was A-Okay to be released from the Mental Hospital back in to society. The Judge gave her conditional release to a group home.
Posted by: Cheri at November 25, 2025 05:56 PM (oiNtH)

These people who testify like this needs to have a three strike law - you predict badly, say 3 times and you are fired and disbarred from any expert position for life.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 05:59 PM (8avO+)

137 The first time a social worker sent to a mental health crisis is assaulted or killed the unions representing them will demand police escorts. Kind of defeats the whole idea

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 06:00 PM (bfwj/)

138
There's not nearly enough about fire in this NYT article.

So, I'm not sure I believe any of it.

Can't the Identity Thief at least have a worm in his brain?

C'mon meet me halfway on this.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 25, 2025 06:00 PM (iJfKG)

139 The dems see all the illegals as the 60's coke commercial people standing cliff side holding a coke bottle singing "I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony...."


And what if they don't sing in perfect harmony? What do you intend to do with "the world" then?

What narcissists.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 05:59 PM (a4flb)

That would actually be a great torture system to force someone to actually do that for life.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 06:01 PM (8avO+)

140 He apologized this morning... and knows I'm still pretty damn pissed off, so my guess is he will be on good behavior for awhile.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 05:58 PM

I'm happy for you. I don't wish family political strife on anyone.

I haven't spoke to my sister since Last November. She's a TDS'er and I tread very lightly during the election. Didn't want to trigger her. I didn't have to, the mere fact that I voted for Trump made her cut me off. I miss her sometimes.

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 25, 2025 06:01 PM (IifOV)

141 E-verify. If you get 6 hits on the same SSN maybe it's beyond time to take a look.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 25, 2025 06:02 PM (sDNVV)

142 But remember, you guys, being an illegal alien is not a crime, they’re simply “undocumented.”

That’s what they’ve “Demsplained “ to us for decades. See, no crime, and these poor dears have been ‘living in the shadows’ just grant them amnesty!!

Posted by: Lizzy at November 25, 2025 06:02 PM (Hkcdp)

143 I mean, I'll go ahead and say it.

If the invader-enablers won't let us kick the invders out, then the next step is to remove the enablers.

There is no future for my kids if we don't unfuck this; they'll either be refugees or a minority in their own homeland, and I am about done with this psychotic cat lady AWFL bullshit masquerading as compassion.

Going along to get along is, collectively, a large part of how we got in this mess. If your relatives spout off with this anti-civilization shit at the holiday table, then kick their pinko asses out. Don't enable them or provide them aid.

Posted by: heya at November 25, 2025 06:02 PM (9tikr)

144 Both Sides: How An American Patsy Causes Pain To Migrant Who Borrowed His Identity For Fun And Profit.

Posted by: red speck at November 25, 2025 06:03 PM (Ve/HL)

145 E-verify. If you get 6 hits on the same SSN maybe it's beyond time to take a look.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 25, 2025 06:02 PM (sDNVV)

If its all the same guy its a pretty good indicator of something shady in another direction.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 06:03 PM (8avO+)

146 America is exceptionally bad. Exceptionally immoral. Exceptionally cruel. Exceptionally evil.

And by what authority do they judge these qualities?

On what basis do godless people even recognize "evil"?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 06:03 PM (a4flb)

147 The most infuriating part is per Elon and his DOGE team, the IRS could have screened for duplicate ss#s — but never have. This is a basic data model fix: disallowing duplicate records.


But no. Our government has chosen to allow this.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 25, 2025 06:04 PM (Hkcdp)

148 I'm still waiting for the abstract nude.
*drums fingers on table*

Posted by: torabora at November 25, 2025 06:04 PM (KtOUo)

149 It's a reflex action from Liberals... surprised I wasn't called a Nazi yet.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 05:43 PM (mP0Kj)
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Don't worry, it's early yet in Holiday Season.

You should laugh at his facile assumptions.

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2025 06:04 PM (krQz2)

150 >>Anyone think these illegal vermin somehow just stole these victims’ identifies on their own? Oh no. Identify theft is big business.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at November 25, 2025 05:54 PM

A friend of mine could not open a bank account because her SS number had been stolen and sold to multiple people. It took years to get it fixed.

Posted by: huerfano at November 25, 2025 06:05 PM (98kQX)

151 And by what authority do they judge these qualities?

On what basis do godless people even recognize "evil"?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 06:03 PM (a4flb)
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Seriously?

Marxist dialectic, in one form or another. Usually the postmodernist framework, but it's essentially all the same shit.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2025 06:05 PM (0lawO)

152 I mean, I'll go ahead and say it.

If the invader-enablers won't let us kick the invders out, then the next step is to remove the enablers.

Posted by: heya at November 25, 2025 06:02 PM (9tikr)

Oh absolutely. Defund the colleges and unis. Even STEM is getting to be a racket of disproven theories tweaked to keep your department running.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 06:05 PM (8avO+)

153 My sympathy and compassion is all used up at this point. I don't give a fuck if you're from Mexico, Brazil, Ireland, India, China, Azerbaijan, San Marino, or the Seychelles. If you're here without authorization, you get to get the fuck out on your own or get tossed out on your ear.

We're either a sovereign nation or a transnational grey zone where nothing really matters. I strongly prefer the former.

Posted by: ballistic at November 25, 2025 06:05 PM (3BwY8)

154 "141 E-verify. If you get 6 hits on the same SSN maybe it's beyond time to take a look.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 25, 2025 06:02 PM (sDNVV)"

Treasury for decades has looked the other way because illegals with stolen or bogus SS numbers have tax withholding and pay SS/medicaid/etc, *but they don't get refundable tax credits or refunds*

In other words, DC was getting a cut. You don't hate these people enough.

Posted by: heya at November 25, 2025 06:05 PM (9tikr)

155 If someone drove me nuts for 20 years I might hunt that person down and it won't be their best day

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 06:05 PM (+qU29)

156 And by what authority do they judge these qualities?

On what basis do godless people even recognize "evil"?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 06:03 PM (a4flb)
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They steal that concept from godly people first, before enabling criminals.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 06:06 PM (8avO+)

157 And by what authority do they judge these qualities?

On what basis do godless people even recognize "evil"?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 06:03 PM (a4flb)
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It's not about what "evil" means, it's about who they want to call "evil".

We can be confused, because people on this side of politics tend to try to convey thoughts with words, so we use meanings that words already have.

They are always trying to fit the effect of the word to their emotions.

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2025 06:06 PM (krQz2)

158 On what basis do godless people even recognize "evil"?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

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Neither Hillary or Obama were unanimously elected. That really pisses them off.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at November 25, 2025 06:07 PM (8AONa)

159 If someone drove me nuts for 20 years I might hunt that person down and it won't be their best day

How would they identify the body?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 06:07 PM (a4flb)

160 Need to bring down the thunder on a few businesses using illegals, lots of publicity.

Posted by: A dude in MI at November 25, 2025 06:07 PM (/6GbT)

161 "Oh absolutely. Defund the colleges and unis. Even STEM is getting to be a racket of disproven theories tweaked to keep your department running.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 06:05 PM (8avO+)"

Uh... yeah
"defund" them

that's what we'll call it. sure.

Posted by: heya at November 25, 2025 06:07 PM (9tikr)

162 "Trump has only 1.2 million deportations. Rookie numbers."

Numbers could still ramp up ... start charging the employers of illegals. Charge them more fervently if they used fake IDs.

Cut off ALL free shit. Health care number one, free food, other benefits. And stop all the other scams run by illegals, especially the human trafficking ... not just for sex, but indebtedness from those that owe the coyotes/cartels. And crack down on those aiding and abetting the criminal cartels in moving the illegals around, providing them services. (shut down of USAID can stop a lot of that).

Posted by: illiniwek at November 25, 2025 06:07 PM (vbXSk)

163 On what basis do godless people even recognize "evil"?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 06:03 PM (a4flb)
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Today? They look at your skin color and who you like to have sex with. White and straight? Good luck.

Posted by: ballistic at November 25, 2025 06:07 PM (3BwY8)

164 Treasury for decades has looked the other way because illegals with stolen or bogus SS numbers have tax withholding and pay SS/medicaid/etc, *but they don't get refundable tax credits or refunds*

In other words, DC was getting a cut. You don't hate these people enough.
Posted by: heya at November 25, 2025 06:05 PM (9tikr)

I'll bet that statement is 100 pct false. How would they know not to generate a refund?

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 06:08 PM (8avO+)

165 "157 And by what authority do they judge these qualities?

On what basis do godless people even recognize "evil"?"

I have mentioned several times recently the arguments about tolerance during the enlightenment, and the assertion by many that some should not be tolerated because they fundamentally can't be trusted for epistemological reasons

Posted by: heya at November 25, 2025 06:08 PM (9tikr)

166
I haven't spoke to my sister since Last November. She's a TDS'er and I tread very lightly during the election. Didn't want to trigger her. I didn't have to, the mere fact that I voted for Trump made her cut me off. I miss her sometimes.

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 25, 2025 06:01 PM (IifOV)

I'm sorry. We are hosting husband's sister who is virulent TDS as well. Praying for peaceful turkey dinner, since husbands blood pressure has been elevated lately. He's 15 years out from a quad bypass and I want to keep him around a while longer.

Posted by: moki at November 25, 2025 06:09 PM (wLjpr)

167 It's not about what "evil" means, it's about who they want to call "evil".

I don't care. They aren't allowed to use that word. If they can't figure out the meaning behind the word, then they can't use it as a label. Its just a sound, a noise, like a belch or a fart, with the same intellectual meaning and significance.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 06:09 PM (a4flb)

168 The NYT is the ultimate in moral relativism.

Hell, the spoke glowingly of the mass murder of the Ukrainian Kulaks!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2025 06:10 PM (n9ltV)

169 And his liability to the IRS now that the thief's been caught?

"FU, Pay us."

Posted by: Halfhand at November 25, 2025 06:10 PM (EZl3y)

170 148 I'm still waiting for the abstract nude.
*drums fingers on table*
Posted by: torabora at November 25, 2025 06:04 PM (KtOUo)

https://tinyurl.com/mudjw949

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 25, 2025 06:11 PM (xcxpd)

171
It was an act of love.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2025 06:11 PM (RfDQK)

172 moki, I will say a prayer for you dear lady. You don't need anymore shit in your life.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 25, 2025 06:11 PM (sDNVV)

173 "I'll bet that statement is 100 pct false. How would they know not to generate a refund?
Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 06:08 PM (8avO+)"

This has been a thing for years. The Dems have even complained that it is a reasona we can't "afford" to deport them.

Go ahead, try to file two returns and get two refunds, and tell us how that works out for you.

The illegals don't file, they don't get refunds, and in return the IRS and Treasury ignores their use of the SSNs. Everyone who has been exposed to the scam knows how this works, and it is why you can use the same SSN for a dozen illegals.

Posted by: heya at November 25, 2025 06:12 PM (ilNpL)

174 Really, "You're blathering" should be the answer to a lot of assertions by progs.

And if they ask for an explanation, "You're not using words in a way that means anything outside of your social group--if that!".

Not to mention, derision and laughter.

The Marxist starts out wish-casting all of History. Everything becomes a narrative to expand the overlying narrative.

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2025 06:12 PM (krQz2)

175 Yeah we are pissed about it but think about how the people who have had loved ones killed by these mutherfkrs feel. How many leftys get a different outlook on it after that kind of insult?

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 06:12 PM (vFG9F)

176 Leftism in a nutshell: there is no moral difference between the arsonist and the firefighter.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 25, 2025 05:46 PM (ed7q

5% of the world are wolves , 5% are sheepdogs and the remainder are sheep. Unfortunately the sheep can't tell the difference between wolves and sheepdogs.

Posted by: the way I see it Dangerfield at November 25, 2025 06:13 PM (KDPiq)

177 Godless people only think what they don't like is evil

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 06:13 PM (+qU29)

178 Garnishing someone for wages earned by an illegal using their name and SSN is very common. Often it can be solved by declaring a stolen ID, but sometimes the state or feds don't care because f___ you pay me.

This is why I insist the first step to resolve this is for taxing authorities to refuse to allow employee write-offs to the employer for wages paid if there is a mismatch for SSN DOB and name, or if the employee shows up in multiple states or multiple employers.
There can be a three year period in which if the employer can get the employee to provide proof of identity the employer can amend or refile, otherwise it is flagged as fraudulent.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 06:14 PM (rbvCR)

179 "Evil Nazi" doesn't mean much when you call everyone an evil Nazi.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 06:15 PM (vFG9F)

180 "And his liability to the IRS now that the thief's been caught?
"FU, Pay us." Posted by: Halfhand

The only time the IRS intervened in my payments it was to my benefit. In this case I'd guess, good chance he gets all his money back with interest. But it would be good to see that confirmed.

Posted by: illiniwek at November 25, 2025 06:15 PM (vbXSk)

181
Do NOT click on this link!

https://is.gd/egrUSM
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

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I already saw it on X, reposted by an anti-trans activist. Here are the big SHOCKS! of this story, so get your face ready:

1 - woman (?) who plotted as a teen to stab her friend to death is let out early

2 - goes to a halfway house where she's befriended by a weird adult

3 - the weird adult appears to be transgender

4 - stabber cuts off her ankle bracelet and is now at large

Not shocked? No?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2025 06:15 PM (RfDQK)

182 It's not about what "evil" means, it's about who they want to call "evil".

I don't care. They aren't allowed to use that word. If they can't figure out the meaning behind the word, then they can't use it as a label. Its just a sound, a noise, like a belch or a fart, with the same intellectual meaning and significance.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 06:09 PM (a4flb)
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Well, you're not going to get them to shut up.

Also, Michel Foucault already covers that ground for them: All words are noise, they are all equally meaningless and mainly about redistributing power.

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2025 06:16 PM (krQz2)

183 An easy answer to the identity theft is to ask for a birth certificate.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 25, 2025 06:16 PM (sDNVV)

184 Also, freeze your credit accounts. Yes, it's a pain in the ass. Yes, if you want credit in the future, you have to find out which bureau(s) the lender uses and unfreeze it for a temporary period to let them process it.

But freezing your credit is free and a very effective step to thwart identity fraud. It stops not only falsely-issued credit, but stops many other uses of your identity. Utility companies, landlords, etc. often run credit and it blocks that. Banks always will, and it will block accounts being opened in your name. It won't block other uses of your SSN, but it significantly reduces your attack surface.

You can do "credit monitoring" if you want to, but freezing your credit is free and effective.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2025 05:51 PM


We did that when my identity got stolen. We also put passwords on our bank accounts and turned off check cashing unless we called them and said we writing a check. It was painful but it protected us.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 25, 2025 06:16 PM (0N4FZ)

185 Seriously?

Marxist dialectic, in one form or another. Usually the postmodernist framework, but it's essentially all the same shit.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 25, 2025 06:05 PM (0lawO)

Marxism is also just an untidy lump of borrowed concepts from better philosophies. You can easily show how it collapses if people just refuse to work but collect on their need. Abilities are finite, needs are not.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 06:16 PM (8avO+)

186 *sings*

There's worm in The Politician's brain
There's worm in The Politician's brain
There's a worm
There's a worm
There's worm in The Politician's brain
There's a sperm in the worm in the Politician's brain
There's a sperm in the worm in the Politician's brain
There's a worm
There's a worm
There's worm in The Politician's brain
There's a germ in the sperm in the worm in the Politician's Brain
There's a germ in the sperm in the worm in the Politician's brain
There's a worm
There's a worm
There's worm in The Politician's brain
...

Sorry, had to get that outta my brain after reading the thread below.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 25, 2025 06:17 PM (iJfKG)

187 1 - woman (?) who plotted as a teen to stab her friend to death is let out early

2 - goes to a halfway house where she's befriended by a weird adult

3 - the weird adult appears to be transgender

4 - stabber cuts off her ankle bracelet and is now at large

Not shocked? No?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2025 06:15 PM (RfDQK)

WAIT!!!! Number three is supposed to be... PROFIT!

Posted by: Underpants Gnomes at November 25, 2025 06:17 PM (mP0Kj)

188 Really, "You're blathering" should be the answer to a lot of assertions by progs.

What do you mean when you say "fascist"?
What do you mean when you say "racist"?
What do you mean when you say "unfair"?

Most people have a Y Level† of 1, maybe 2. When they say "fascist" or "unfair" the Y Level is zero.

Why are you protesting today?

† They make a statement, you ask "Why?" and they answer, then ask "Why?" again. When they get to the point they can't answer, there is your Y Level.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 06:18 PM (a4flb)

189 Well, you're not going to get them to shut up.

Also, Michel Foucault already covers that ground for them: All words are noise, they are all equally meaningless and mainly about redistributing power.
Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2025 06:16 PM (krQz2)

Two can play at that game. Just say that their arguments are noise and about redistributing power.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 06:18 PM (8avO+)

190 We are near a decision point culturally, the Federal Government is dominated by individuals who are functionally in rebellion against the actual citizenry of America. They refuse to be held to account, and refuse to slake their desired policy preferences regardless of political outcomes.

I do not know what the answer is.

Posted by: sven at November 25, 2025 06:18 PM (MUJd1)

191 "woman (?) who plotted as a teen to stab her friend to death is let out early"

She was supposed to be in a mental facility for 40 years. Maybe she can get a job at MSNBC or whatever they call that nuthouse now.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 06:19 PM (vFG9F)

192 Godless people only think what they don't like is evil
Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 06:13 PM (+qU29)
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Although you can go overboard investing in Nietzsche, I think that's right in the ballpark of his "Master Morality". "Master Morality" says "I'm good. You're bad."

You are good when you serve me and my interests and you are bad when you counter them or compete with me for them.

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2025 06:19 PM (krQz2)

193 Trump deported by good friend Jose. He was here peacefully how dare that Trump [more whining]. And oh by the way does anyone else have a recommendation for a cheap landscaper? The Americans around here are greedy as hell and I'm not paying that much!

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 05:27 PM (sKqQm)

They were pissed the last time we took their slaves too.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 25, 2025 06:19 PM (snZF9)

194 An easy answer to the identity theft is to ask for a birth certificate.

Would a birth announcement in a Hawaiian newspaper count?

Posted by: Barry Soetero at November 25, 2025 06:20 PM (a4flb)

195 She was supposed to be in a mental facility for 40 years. Maybe she can get a job at MSNBC or whatever they call that nuthouse now.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 06:19 PM (vFG9F)
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Yeah... they never hold to those types of things.

It actually serves the "doctor's" ego to believe they "cured" somebody ahead of schedule.

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2025 06:20 PM (krQz2)

196 Yeah we are pissed about it but think about how the people who have had loved ones killed by these mutherfkrs feel. How many leftys get a different outlook on it after that kind of insult?
Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 06:12 PM (vFG9F)

Surprisingly many are too addicted to the Borg that they keep playing the game even after a loved one is murdered.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 06:21 PM (8avO+)

197 You are good when you serve me and my interests and you are bad when you counter them or compete with me for them.

Shorter Nietzsche: "Might Makes Right"

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 06:21 PM (a4flb)

198
Last night my 34 year old Son told me I was a Racist because I said 'America is full'...

Posted by: Romeo13

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So... he thinks that you believe that people of a race other than your own are innately inferior? Like, morally, physically, intellectually? Is that what he's saying? No one has called me racist to my face yet, but that's going to be my followup question.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2025 06:22 PM (RfDQK)

199 Two can play at that game. Just say that their arguments are noise and about redistributing power.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 06:18 PM (8avO+)
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That's true. But that is realized in Foucault's model.

But what we get from this is "my desires are just as valid as your desires".

Because Foucault wanted to fuck teenage boys.

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2025 06:22 PM (krQz2)

200 You are good when you serve me and my interests and you are bad when you counter them or compete with me for them.
Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2025 06:19 PM (krQz2)

That's a flawed philosophy - I can compete with others and not call them evil if the game is fair and reality based.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 06:23 PM (8avO+)

201 190 We are near a decision point culturally, the Federal Government is dominated by individuals who are functionally in rebellion against the actual citizenry of America. They refuse to be held to account, and refuse to slake their desired policy preferences regardless of political outcomes.

I do not know what the answer is.
Posted by: sven at November 25, 2025 06:18 PM (MUJd1)

That they shut down the Government because they wanted to allow fraud...

That Congress is not allowing the appointments of Prosecutors to go through, which is allowing Judges to let Criminals go free...

I concur... we are at a tipping point.

Posted by: Underpants Gnomes at November 25, 2025 06:23 PM (mP0Kj)

202 I do not know what the answer is.
Posted by: sven at November 25, 2025 06:18 PM
Yeah you do. It's just too horrible to think about. You ain't like the left, who revels in the notion of wiping out our half of America.

Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2025 06:23 PM (LHPAg)

203 85 It's going to be fun watching the NYT deal with Mamdani. Things are going to get bad with his band of incompetent ideologues running the city. Will the Times report that or be the mayor's propaganda ministry? If members of the Times are the victims of crimes will it change any narrative? Inquiring minds want to know
Posted by: Smell the Glove

I'm interested to see how the NY mafia will deal with him.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at November 25, 2025 06:24 PM (DsA2n)

204 An easy answer to the identity theft is to ask for a birth certificate.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 25, 2025 06:16 PM (sDNVV)

Oh No! Not That!

Posted by: Barack Obama, Kenyan at November 25, 2025 06:25 PM (R/m4+)

205 Nowhere does this poor dear ever go through a port of entry. You know, had he crosssed a bridge to a port of entry he wouldn’t have nearly drowned in the Rio Grande. This of course the NYT won’t mention. Nor will they advocate for the removal of CBP from JFK, LGA or EWR or the Port of NY & NJ to be consistent.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 25, 2025 06:26 PM (6KcYW)

206 The problem with Michael Foucault was that he was such a scummy human that his "theories" were overwhelmed by his behavior

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 06:27 PM (bfwj/)

207 You are good when you serve me and my interests and you are bad when you counter them or compete with me for them.
Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2025 06:19 PM (krQz2)

That's a flawed philosophy - I can compete with others and not call them evil if the game is fair and reality based.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 06:23 PM (8avO+)
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True, but Nietzsche is not saying that's "moral", he's saying that's a base morality. He prefers it to "Slave Morality" which says "I am Evil". People who sublimate Nietzsche would say that FN really believes that a "Master Morality" refined through an appreciation of "aesthetics" (art) is really the better path forward.

"Master Morality" is not a suggestion, but a description of existing moral-related behavior.

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2025 06:27 PM (krQz2)

208 So... he thinks that you believe that people of a race other than your own are innately inferior? Like, morally, physically, intellectually? Is that what he's saying? No one has called me racist to my face yet, but that's going to be my followup question.

And what race are you referring to? Blumenbach's anthropological typing? Franz Boas? Samuel Morton's

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 06:27 PM (a4flb)

209 @nicksortor
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1h
🚨 BREAKING: A DOJ employee has just been charged with TERRORlSM after allegedly doxing Border Patrol agents to a man who wanted to kiII the agents

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 06:28 PM (AOsQT)

210 Their attitude is You deserve it

Bingo! Stripped of all the pseudo-intellectual twaddle they’ve tried to foist on everybody for decades - this is absolutely the core of it. Everything.

They have a death wish, coupled with an inability to change their world view. And, they are cowards.

So they become more extreme, willing to sacrifice you and your children to try and maintain a fairy tale in their head. “Your Death Before Their Dishonor.”

The more charitable types basically feel guilty for not being born poor, and spend much of their time annoying the poor by trying to “help” them. And so it goes.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 25, 2025 06:29 PM (B8LvX)

211 The problem with Michael Foucault was that he was such a scummy human that his "theories" were overwhelmed by his behavior

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 06:27 PM (bfwj/)
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And yet, the left uses his concepts over and over.

They're not for pedophilia! Heavens no--and they would never be for that!! However, they can take from a writer who's end goal was the mainstreaming of homosexuality so that he could bang teenage boys, eventually.

Why is there no need to distance themselves from that on the left?

Posted by: Axeman at November 25, 2025 06:29 PM (krQz2)

212 Hope they charge him attempted murder

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 06:30 PM (+qU29)

213 Nood. Trump pardons turkeys

Posted by: Tuna at November 25, 2025 06:30 PM (lJ0H4)

214 "If liberals want to impose liberal policies on the country, they have to at least make sure the worst excesses of those policies are checked."

The Left's ideologues--theologians, really--who are setting the dialectical agenda want to tear the whole thing down. The grifters and the people just trying to get by will mouth the Party line and pile on to the designated objects of the day's Hate. Both are afraid that if they don't they'll lose what they have.

Of the two victims, the identity thief is actually more victimy and therefore better. Anyway, he's doing more to burn down a systematically oppressive system which is an example of criminals actually helping to tear down a system which cannot meet the insane dialectical "ideals" and so must not continue.


If I'm reading the dates right, the identity thief came to the US under Billy Jeff, and continued his career under every president since.

Except Trump after he finally realized how much he needed to clean house. Imagine that.

Posted by: Peter B at November 25, 2025 06:32 PM (VTbl0)

215 I'm interested to see how the NY mafia will deal with him.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at November 25, 2025 06:24 PM (DsA2n)

They are just a shadow of their former self. Russian and other foreign organized crime groups will just take advantage of the changes.

Posted by: the way I see it Dangerfield at November 25, 2025 06:34 PM (KDPiq)

216 Both Sides: How An American Patsy Causes Pain To Migrant Who Borrowed His Identity For Fun And Profit.
Posted by: red speck at November 25, 2025 06:03 PM (Ve/HL)

Hey, he believed America was a fair place, and did what he was supposed to do to be part of it. He obeyed. What was he supposed to do, object? He would have been an asshole like the lead character in Falling Down

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 06:34 PM (rbvCR)

217 I'm interested to see how the NY mafia will deal with him.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at November 25, 2025 06:24 PM (DsA2n)

It will be the Obama / Biden / Newsom gambit: Let all the people who are supposed to be policing him steal everything they wish, and that gives him an open hand to do whatever outrages he feels like.
Organized crime will be setting up kiosks on the street.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 06:35 PM (rbvCR)

218
Because Foucault wanted to fuck teenage boys.
Posted by: Axeman

The pendulum swings.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 25, 2025 06:45 PM (pkeXY)

219 I'm all for selling his and his dependents' organs and giving the money to the "real" Mr. Kluver. Also, the feds should return all the money paid for taxes incurred by the Guatamalan turd (plus compounded interest) paid for by 100% tax rates on remittances to Guatamala.

Posted by: Bob in Idaho at November 25, 2025 07:36 PM (fyTmn)

For Some Reason, Vanity Fair Will Publish an "Abstract Nude" Photo of Its New West Coast Editor and Weird Dick-Riding Flake Olivia Nuzzi

What is an "abstract nude"? I don't know. I imagine it's a nude photo which has been digitally altered with various effects and geometric pixelations so you can't see her beaver.

And based on reports, you'll be among the very select group of people who haven't seen her beaver.

This is the media now. This is "journalism."

And do we want to see this? I grant you that she does not have any particular feature which would disqualify her from being "attractive." She's not hugely overweight, she's not decrepitly aged, she has the full complement of limbs and teeth.

But beyond that, is this... "beautiful"? As literally every media outlet demands you believe?

nuzziabstractnude.jpg

She's a Panera Bread 5.

But whatever, you're going to get to see a picture of her beaver as digitally altered by an Instagram filter. Maybe her beaver will have wacky year 2000 New Years Eve glasses on it or something.


My headline "Olivia Nuzzi's Got a Fuzzi and Wants All the World to See It" turns out to have been prescient, no?

Almost as if I owned a time machine, which I will have assured you, in the future, that I do not have.


Vanity Fair's glossy Hollywood issue will feature an abstract nude portrait of scandal-plagued editor Olivia Nuzzi -- even as staffers privately gripe that she has failed to carry out core duties since joining the magazine, according to a report.

The portrait, drawn by artist Isabelle Brourman, will appear in the new print edition that is scheduled to hit newsstands on Dec. 2. No image of the drawing appears to have been circulated publicly, and it's unclear if renderings of the drawing have been produced or circulated among Vanity Fair staffers.

Oh it's a drawing? So it'll be like a cubist sketch of her beaver?

Will it be Escher-like? Will we see various older men walking up and down non-Euclidean stairs into her beaver?

The sketch was commissioned months before the latest wave of allegations engulfed the 32-year-old writer, according to Status.

Brourman previously collaborated with Nuzzi during her tenure at New York Magazine, which ended weeks after it was learned that she had a "sexting" relationship with then-presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.


The inclusion of the abstract sketch in Vanity Fair's marquee issue has fueled internal backlash at a moment when the publication is already struggling to contain the fallout of her most recent controversies.

Apparently some staffers complain that, apart from lining up her next affair with a Democrat politician forty years her senior, she doesn't seem to work very much.


Inside Vanity Fair, the controversy has collided with mounting frustration over Nuzzi's limited output. Staffers told Status she has skipped routine meetings and failed to turn in assigned work.

Two people told the newsletter that one of her other editing assignments for the most recent issue of the magazine was not completed, leaving colleagues scrambling as the publication closed one of its most scrutinized annual issues.

The turbulence has placed newly appointed editorial director Mark Guiducci under immediate pressure.

Guiducci, who took over in June, has addressed staff at least twice since the allegations resurfaced, according to the Status report.

At a team meeting Thursday, he explained how he first met Nuzzi and tried to calm anxieties inside the newsroom, the newsletter reported.

He also downplayed the allegations, calling them "difficult to investigate because they occurred while she was employed elsewhere," according to Status.

But some staffers remain skeptical that Nuzzi can continue in an editing role when she has produced little work while generating heavy turbulence, according to Status.

Is her talent of such a high level that she's worth all of this "turbulence?"

Well, having skimmed excerpts from her sexual tell-all book American Canto -- which reportedly will feature some of the dirty sexts she exchanged with RFKJr. -- I would say that, as a writer, she's no Ryan Lizza.

Not enough bamboo, for one thing.

She begins by discussing the fires that consumed the Palisades, and asserts that the Palisades fires were very much like the negative publicity she received after her sexting affair was exposed.


A few minutes later, the planes swooped down to spray the flames in the bluffs. I watched from the Pacific Coast Highway, as far away from my problems as I could get on land, which was not far enough.

You cannot outrun your life on fire.

Below, apparently her cute gimmick is to refer to RFKJr. only as "The Politician," even though we all know who she means and in fact her publisher's publicity department is out there selling the book by promising RFKJr.'s sext messages.


I would take a bullet for you," the Politician said. He always said that. "Please don't say that," I said. I always said that. From his mouth the bullet theoretical launched the bullet possible.

What?

I did not like to think about it. About the armed man at his speech. Or the armed man who broke into his home. Or the armed men he paid to guard him from armed men who sought to harm him while the federal government denied his pleas for protection from the security agency whose modern protocols were carved by the same bullets that cut boughs from his family tree and cut the track of the American experiment.


I did not like to think about it just as later I would not like to think about the worm in his brain that other people found so funny. I loved his brain. I hated the idea of an intruder therein. Others thought he was a madman; he was not quite mad the way they thought, but I loved the private ways that he was mad. I loved that he was insatiable in all ways, as if he would swallow up the whole world just to know it better if he could. He made me laugh, but I winced when he joked about the worm. "Baby, don't worry," he said. "It's not a worm." A doctor he trusted had reviewed the scans of his brain obtained by The New York Times, he said, and concluded that the shadowy figure was likely not a parasite at all. He sighed. It was too late to interfere with what had already vaulted from the sphere of meme to the sphere of screwy legend, but at least I did not have to worry about the worm that was not a worm in his brain.

Let me interrupt to say that Sex and the City ruined would-be female writer.

That show established the terrible trope that female writers are supposed to always look at some very mundane, very trivial AWFL consumer purchase and then make "clever" observations about it and spin that into some (let me get out my supply of Superfluous Quotes) " " " " deep " " " " point about life and -- especially -- dating and sex.

Like, for example, Sarah Jessica Parker will be munching an everything bagel and wondering if all the spices clash with each other and then begin babbling about whether or not one can or should try to have an "everything relationship" or if one should have separate bagels -- different people -- to fulfill different needs. Maybe we need a Sex Bagel and a Confidante Bagel and a Going Shopping on Sunday Bagel. Maybe it's wrong to expect or even want an Everything Bagel for every situation.

I don't know how that monologue would continue because I just shot myself through the temple. Good-bye Cruel World.

Avenge me.

You get what I'm talking about though, right?, I asked ghostilly. This horrific trope has infected so much female writing that... okay, I just basically won't read modern female writers. I pre-judge them. I assume that they're going to do the Sex and the City "clever" observations thing and I say: No.


This reminds me of John Scalzi's quote: The failure state of "clever" is "asshole." In other words, if you try to be funny but the joke doesn't land, the failure state is that you weren't funny. If you try to make a serious point but fail to convince, the failure state is that you did not persuade your audience.

But if you try to be "clever" -- meaning, what you're really saying isn't about the joke or the statement, it's about you, and it's about you trying to convince people that you're oh-so "clever" and smart -- the failure state isn't just that you failed to be clever.

The failure state is that you're an asshole.

I think that's true. Yes, I don't like failed jokes, but I really despise failed "cleverness." Cleverness is a particularly smug, look-at-me form of expression that really rankles when it fails. (Which is often.)

Olivia Nuzzi and Her Abstract Nude Fuzzi does not quite cross into Sarah Jessica Parker talking about bagels territory, but you can see the damage that that terrible show (written entirely by gay men) did to future female writers.

...

As a child, I became convinced that death was not random, that life was the process of investigating what the point of it was, and as soon as you figured it out, in that very instant, you would ascend. God would eliminate you from this plane. He could not risk a leaker walking among the ignorant. The assignment was to crack the case for yourself. And when I would find myself thinking too hard about the central question, I would back away slowly, thinking, Well, I will return to this matter some other time when I feel more ready to possibly meet my end. What if I guessed correctly?

The unsolvable puzzle. Tripping once, on a balcony in Washington overlooking the National Cathedral. Smoking what I did not know was my final cigarette. Unless someone offers me a Capri, which does not count. The great cosmic riddle, I figured I had solved it. The joke was that the joke was never done being told.

Maybe we need a Philosphical Musing Bagel that we can make gaseous philosophical speculations with.


The wildfire is over my shoulder now, over the hill. The waxing gibbous moon is over my head. A thought bubble, it shines blankly. Across the country, the Politician is the guest of honor. Across the country with his wife. With Mike Tyson for some reason. People are mocking the photos, asking where I am, asking how she could stand there after all that.

I know how. The earth here is hot. Inside the bonfire, what evidence can I burn? I think of all I turned to ash in hotel rooms. I think of how you cannot burn a cloud. I think of the classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, how there were so many, how the officials did not know what to do with them, and how fire seldom seemed to occur, though the White House and the president's properties are studded with fireplaces. Too easy. I worry.

She really thinks her life is like the Palisades Fires, which killed, what, like 20 people?


I worry about evil. If it is a force, if it is like the Santa Ana winds, if it may come on suddenly, if it may grab hold, if it may depart but not completely, if it may leave word, if the word might sound good, if I might again believe it. The snake charmer, the man-eater, the devil himself. Was it ever a question, that where there was a cloak there would be a dagger? A friend told me once, "Never trust anyone wearing a lapel pin." This politician did not wear one of those.

Midnight, 3,000 acres burning.

A politician's greatest trick is to convince you that he is not one. And what is a politician? Any man who wants to be loved more than other men and through his pursuit reveals why he cannot love himself.

People ask me now about anger. About my lack of it. How? How could I not be enraged? I think this over. I scan the terrain of my body. My chest, my spine, behind my belly button. I look for pale pulses of idle fury, waiting for the alarm to sound at the trip wire of my veins. There is nothing there. There is nothing there because I loaded a gun. I loaded a gun and set it on my nightstand.

You cannot live in America without thinking about guns, without thinking that one day you might not live anymore in America, and the reason will be a gun. 46,728 lives ended in America in 2023 because of a gun. 27,300 suicides. 17,927 homicides. 604 police shootings. 463 accidents. 434 undetermined. On the 405, a billboard announces that gun injuries are the number one cause of death for American children. You think: A gun will protect me from guns. Then you recall the statistic, that a gun in your home doubles your chances of dying by homicide. Still I loaded a gun. I loaded a gun and set it on my nightstand.

God, I know You have more important matters on Your mind, but: Why do You allow this evil?

The existence of Olivia Nuzzi's writing proves that God cannot both be all-good and all-powerful.

Now back to "The Politician." Shit, even there she's aping Sex and the City, as Carrie only referred to her real estate millionaire fuck-buddy as "Mr. Big." I don't think they revealed his actual name.


...

Like all men but more so, he was a hunter. In a literal sense, he used not a bullet but a bird. It was not about a chase but about a puzzle of logic and skill that amounted to a test of his self-mastery. He was the mouse and the architect of his maze. The giver of his own pleasure and torment. He desired. He desired desiring. He desired being desired. He desired desire itself. I understood this just as I came to understand the range of his kinks and complexes and how they fit within what I thought I understood of his soul.

The spark, the flame, the rumor fulfilled. The labyrinth on fire. The Palisades fire.

10:30 a.m., 10 acres burning.

10:50 a.m., 20 acres burning.

What the fuck are you talking about, Madam, and would you mind stopping talking about it?

She continues likening her out-of-control life to the California wildfires and then gets back to Mr. Big, I mean, The Politician.

A politician's greatest trick is to convince you that he is not one. And what is a politician? Any man who wants to be loved more than other men and through his pursuit reveals why he cannot love himself.

It was the flag. When I close my eyes in search of the end or the start, the place at which before stopped and beyond which now began, that is what I see. The blur of colors, the flash of red, of blue, of white, stretched and folded, pulled apart, undefined yet unmistakable, the flag. There was no one day, one moment, one event, one decision, one word that marked the change. There was the flag as it mutated from metaphorical to literal weapon, as it was marred by a corruption of the American character that could not be understood or even fully observed through the prism of the partisan binary. Which is to say that it was the flag, but it was not about the flag, not about notions of patriotism or nationalism or idolatry. It was the flag that thrashed in psychedelic distress, suggested a bend in lanes of reason, a tear in the fabric of consensus reality.

Maybe she needs a Flag Metaphor Bagel, too.

You see what I mean? This is just Carrie Bradshaw Does Politics. She's obsessing over a mundane physical thing, a flag, and attempting to babble about it until she accidentally uncovers the secrets of the universe.


In this period of now, from 2015 to 2025, in which the man through whom the culture was synthesized achieved dominance, I found myself fixated on the flag, on the way the flag expressed how the country was warping, and yet the magnitude of this change could not be categorized appropriately or cataloged completely amid such amnesia. At the southern border or the White House or the Midwestern auto factory or the boat in the Atlantic or the truck rolling beside the Pacific, the very flag that had been clutched like pearls at the turn of the century was refashioned as costume jewelry. Red, white, and blue asphyxiated blue, gray, and black. Stars and Stripes a backdrop for the star of the country. One stripe remade a banner across which his campaign slogan crawled.

She's talking about a flag, but, get this, she's really talking about Trump.

Clever.

And you know what they say about the failure state of clever.

...

As the edited flags waved strange and ominous, my job was to bear witness to the processes of American presidential politics, to travel the country and attempt to understand those who sought or wielded or influenced executive power. I had never been interested in politics, exactly.

Really? You don't say. I couldn't tell that you were not at all interested in politics from the way you were babbling about the outer perimeters of politics while trying to remain focused on what really matters, the worm in the Politician's brain.

Here she continues babbling some nonsense vaguely about "politics." As she's already confessed, she's not interested in politics, but she's writing a book that purports to be about politics, and this is the best she can offer: fractured sense-impressions half-remembered from that time she took magic mushrooms while watching Abby Philip interviewing Brian Stelter.

Everything seemed suddenly flexible. With all information available at all times to all people, all matters appeared potentially negotiable. Fine fractures splintered deep, fanned out far, cracked up for good. The parties were over. The system was moot. Vast interconnectedness and mass overstimulation gave way to individual isolation and nihilistic boredom so total that it all but invited the ascendant mob-mentality politics of comic relief and sadistic catharsis.

Our more flammable world. Arson, the national pastime. Self-immolation, well.

Just like everything is Bagels with Carrie Bradshaw, so with Olivia Nuzzi everything is fire.

...

Events lost context. Words lost meaning. Denier. Nothing could be believed because everything was subject to change. Truther. Everything could be believed because anything was possible; this was at once inspirational slogan and active threat.

Psst: She's still babbling about Trump, in case you fell asleep six vague paragraphs ago.


A promise was only a suggestion. A suggestion was only a joke, unless you were not moved to laugh; then the joke was on you.

In this reality, reality ceased to feel real.

Shots rang out. The story of the relationship had broken, the bullet metaphorical. My phone rang again. "I need you to take a bullet for me," the Politician said. "Please."

New York closed in. City and magazine. New York I fled. I drove west. I did not feel alone now. Not yet.

What I felt was that the country had snaked its hand up my skirt. What I felt was that I had been lanced by the teeth of a trap set by a man who could not let me go; that as I tried to free myself, the man for whom I worked had run off with the key to the padlock; that the contradiction in terms, the man I trusted most, the Politician, had walked by the scene whistling, and when he saw me there, a mob on the horizon moving closer, he reached out to me, not to lift me to my feet but to pin me down, to drive the teeth of the trap deeper into my flesh, to hike my skirt higher, to wave the mob over to look, to invite the country to lay its hands on me.

This is her very overwrought way of saying, "RFKJr. asked me to lie about the sexting affair for him and I was hurt that we would ask that."

But it sounds so mundane when you say it that way. So instead we get a lot Jazz Odyssey riffing about hands going up skirts and flesh being torn by steel traps.

Also, I'm pretty sure, we'll be hearing about The Fire That Is My Fabulous Life again shortly.

And flags. Weaponized flags.


In the news, the Politician offers a united front and a rewritten history. My vow of silence does not feel like enough. I wish to fall silent on myself too. I wish to sink into the sea. To flee behind the curve of the earth. To emerge a new shape, a stranger. To stop giving fake names in coffee shops. To never see myself, the character of myself imagined by others, viral allegory of hubris, female avatar of Icarus, stripped and left for dead in a pool of wax. I do not wish to be understood, which no one seems to understand.

As Shakespeare observed: Brevity may be the soul of wit, but padding the hell out a few trivial incidents is the only way to extend an anecdote into book-length form.

Birds of prey circle. It is inconceivable, it seems, that someone would choose to allow a crisis to go to waste, would not want to make of their attention more attention, would not want to reap some kind of short-term profit from the mess of their life.

The paparazzi, the calculating ones, write to tell me where their colleagues are staking me out. New York. Washington. Outside my brother's house, where they get into an altercation with a neighbor. Never anywhere I am. They think that if they do me this favor, I will cut a deal and agree to be photographed by them in exchange for what they advertise as control over my image. My Image, a ship that has sailed and sunk. The offer includes a promise that doubles as a threat: If I accept their terms, I will be left alone the rest of the time, which means that if I do not accept their terms, I will not be left alone.

Let me put that more directly: Reporters are calling her asking for comment on the sexting affair. She doesn't want to answer.

The fire burns.

...

I am talking, of course, about how it happened between me and the Politician. I am talking, of course, about how it happened between the country and the president. I cannot talk about one without the other.

Trump had its way with America like RFKJr. had his way with her?

What?

A long time ago I listed to a podcast by the We Hate Movies guys about the Steven King movie Dreamcatcher. A joke they kept making was that Steven King was in his coke phase -- meaning, "his entire career" -- in which he never edited, revised, or trimmed anything he wrote. Everything just came right out of his head, unpolished, straight to the page and then straight to typeset and publication.

"Clickety-clack," they kept saying, to simulate the sound of Steven King's never-pausing typewriter vomiting up words.

Olivia Nuzzi is a clickety-clack "writer" herself. Is my life like fire? Clickety-clack. Maybe it's like a bear trap tearing into my ankle? Clickety-clack. Maybe Trump's seduction of America is like RFKJr. seducing me? Clickety-clack, clickety-clack, clickety-clack, we're contractually obligated to deliver 80,000 words to the publisher by next Tuesday and we absolutely cannot afford the time needed to evaluate whether any of this makes sense and we definitely cannot afford to start cutting words. We have to just add words, and add words, and add more words, whether they make sense when arranged next to each other or not.

Clickety-clack.

In the discourse someone I have met before jokes about my murder. Others contact me to warn me that such a thing is not a joke but a possibility. I was not going to sleep anyhow.

Spoiler: She was not murdered.

People often, often people I do not know very well, reach out to tell me that I have appeared in their dreams. I wonder if this is because I sleep so little.

Clickety-clack.

If the version of me who lives on the plane of dreams tires of waiting for me to release her to action, if she goes out searching for places where she may exist without my permission, if she identifies the minds of those who have felt any kindness toward me, if she thinks that within their dreams she might get to live freely instead. I wonder, too, if this is a function of being a visible face but a veiled personality. If my impression contains empty space that renders me an adaptable idea and thus a useful device for subconscious minds. It is nice to think of this, that I might still be in some way, to someone, of use.

Clickety-clack, clickety-clack, clickety-clack. Remember, she's not interest in politics. That's why we're now Eight Deep into an extended narcissistic fantasy about her appearing in other people's dreams.


I mean to tell you as best I can what it was to face the unrealness, to stand so close that it seemed at times almost plausible, to tiptoe along the edge of the abyss, and to balance there just long enough to forget that the plates would soon shift.

Shorter version: "My life felt unreal to me." But you're not going to hit 80,000 words with sentences like "My life felt unreal to me."

Clickety-clack.

I mean to tell you of the canyon where voices carried. The place where monsters spoke to me. Where I listened. Where I found that, as fortune or curse would have it, I knew the language of monsters....

Because I care about you, I'm going to do what Little Miss Clickety-Clack will not do and edit this and end this fresh prologned digression about nothing. But she continues babbling about monsters and canyons.

No I lied, I'm including it. You've all been disappointing me recently and this is what you get.


I mean to tell you that, as it relates to monsters, little can be assured beyond their ceaseless want. That you feed the monster, and the monster wants only more. That here you have surrendered to the endless transaction, and through the terms on which you meet the monster you are transformed monstrous, too, for the day that the monster is done wanting is the day that the sun does not rise; want makes the monster as sun makes the day.

Okay but I will show mercy and cut it there.

I mean to tell you that this is more meaningful and more meaningless than you might think.

As to the latter: I'm sold, baby.

...

The flag winked beside the lanes that bent to borders that faded to barriers that fell to the lines I crossed.

Back to this metaphor which stands for nothing at all.

..

When I open my eyes I see, still, the blur of colors, the flash of red, of blue, of white.

I mean to tell you now as best I can.

Posted by: Ace at 04:20 PM




Comments

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1 Could you have put more above the fold?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 04:24 PM (GBKbO)

2 >>But beyond that, is this... "beautiful"?

A ten!

Posted by: Bucket Loaders Monthly at November 25, 2025 04:25 PM (kIamG)

3 This is the media now. This is "journalism."

Bitch can't figure out why movies/tv portray journalists as harlots who fuck sources for info though.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 25, 2025 04:26 PM (gwt4v)

4 To borrow some from Anna Khachiyan, she looks like Faye Dunaway's very handsome brother.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at November 25, 2025 04:26 PM (ssz2a)

5 I think that she should stick with fiction about bamboo.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 04:27 PM (Nx5jP)

6 Oh my, this is so funny.

Happy Thanksgiving ace.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2025 04:27 PM (AZf41)

7
The #5 at the local Panera Drive thru is a Tuna salad sandwich.

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 25, 2025 04:27 PM (IifOV)

8 My God, what clotted prose.

And about that "abstract nude" business. They're not talking about something Picasso-esque, are they? Is she going to look like a stack of Rubik's cubes?

Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2025 04:28 PM (mADJX)

9 Dear God, Ace.

The Cruelty. The Cruelty.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 25, 2025 04:28 PM (wtvvX)

10 MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP OH MY GOD DEAR SWEET JESUS MARY JOSEPH AND ALL THE SAINTS MAKE IT STOP!!!!!

Posted by: A shoo-in for Bulwer-Lytton at November 25, 2025 04:28 PM (TbWk/)

11

My God, it's full of content....

Posted by: imp at November 25, 2025 04:29 PM (g6TN6)

12 I propose a column length contest between Ace and Ed Driscoll. Winner goes to whoever fills up a hard drive first.

Posted by: MartynWW at November 25, 2025 04:29 PM (+1tao)

13 Christmas came early this year.

Thanks, Ace. We needed a good damned laugh.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 25, 2025 04:29 PM (wtvvX)

14 Never have I seen Ace wax so poetic. Brazilian waxed, I mean.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 25, 2025 04:29 PM (wBaIH)

15 Will this abstract nude answer the hardwood or carpet question?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at November 25, 2025 04:30 PM (kTd/k)

16 This is journalism?

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Yes, just like sports and everything else, they are competing with internet porn

Spoiler alert.... porn wins

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at November 25, 2025 04:30 PM (iNURe)

17 Curtains for Zooshka?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 25, 2025 04:31 PM (mlg/3)

18 When you have to write, write.

Don't idle.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 25, 2025 04:31 PM (wVcYX)

19 Could you have put more above the fold?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 04:24 PM (GBKbO)

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*snort*

I sprained my scrolling finger.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 04:31 PM (DRSnL)

20 Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz just launched himself out of the airlock. He couldn't take it anymore.

Posted by: Even he had his limits at November 25, 2025 04:31 PM (TbWk/)

21 >> The flag winked beside the lanes that bent to borders that faded to barriers that fell to the lines I crossed.

Emerson’s corpse just rolled its eyes and puked.

And even though rigor-mortis has set in, he doesn’t have a stiffy.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 25, 2025 04:31 PM (Qgg5f)

22 Is her talent of such a high level that she's worth all of this "turbulence?"

What the hell do you mean by turbulence? The turbulence created while between the sheets from rapidly depressurizing her lower colon of bean burrito gas?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 04:32 PM (a4flb)

23
>>What I felt was that the country had snaked its hand up my skirt.

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omg someone kill this all-about-me journalism. Like a snake crawling into journalism's bed and biting its leg.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2025 04:32 PM (RfDQK)

24 Indicative of nothing, I was reading through the help wanted ads and found the perfect job for Mark Kelly. The Museum of the Penis needs a greeter.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 25, 2025 04:32 PM (Qgg5f)

25 Abstract nudes! Get your abstract nudes!

Read all about it! Abstract nudes!

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 25, 2025 04:32 PM (wVcYX)

26 I read that gibberish . She tries to be a female Thomas Pynchon and ends up a female Benji Snopes

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 04:32 PM (bfwj/)

27 Holy Jesus, it's like metal shavings embedded in my brain.

Posted by: Probably got an A in freshman comp too at November 25, 2025 04:33 PM (TbWk/)

28 Well. Hell.
If ever a picture rated a mystery click.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2025 04:33 PM (y3bZw)

29 Bravo ace

And have a pangalactic gargle blaster

Some one actually published this

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 25, 2025 04:33 PM (bXbFr)

30 And about that "abstract nude" business. They're not talking about something Picasso-esque, are they? Is she going to look like a stack of Rubik's cubes?
Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2025 04:28 PM (mADJX)

Pubix cubes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 04:33 PM (npFr7)

31 Solipsism is a helluva drug.

Posted by: whig at November 25, 2025 04:34 PM (WDjG6)

32 Not sure I would complain

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 04:34 PM (+qU29)

33 >>> I did not like to think about it just as later I would not like to think about the worm in his brain that other people found so funny.




I'll just hold out for the Dr Seuss book with pictures.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 04:34 PM (3uBP9)

34 So, she is a gay man's idea of a pretty woman.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 25, 2025 04:34 PM (jc0TO)

35

The existence of Olivia Nuzzi's writing proves that God cannot both be all-good and all-powerful.

As a writer, all I can say is ... word.

Posted by: imp at November 25, 2025 04:35 PM (g6TN6)

36 Pubix cubes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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That deserves jazz hands.

Posted by: whig at November 25, 2025 04:35 PM (WDjG6)

37 I guess if someone throws themselves like a trebuchet

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 25, 2025 04:35 PM (bXbFr)

38 I think she got AI to write that shit.

Posted by: wth at November 25, 2025 04:35 PM (v0R5T)

39 I think we can sum up the above subject content by Ace by stating:

"Skanks gotta skank."

Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2025 04:35 PM (cYBz/)

40 If it is an abstract nude , her face will be where her vagina should be and her vagina would be her right ear

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 04:35 PM (bfwj/)

41
She wasn't worth all the hassle.

Posted by: Bobby Kennedy Jr at November 25, 2025 04:36 PM (IifOV)

42 32 Not sure I would complain
Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 04:34 PM (+qU29)



34 So, she is a gay man's idea of a pretty woman.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 25, 2025 04:34 PM (jc0TO)

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This made me LOL.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 04:36 PM (DRSnL)

43
She is skeletal looking.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 25, 2025 04:36 PM (3ek7K)

44 She's a Panera Bread 5.
-------

Let's be fair, she's a Panera Bread 6.

There is no 7, and she doesn't offer enough to move up into the coveted 8-10 range.

Posted by: Crusader at November 25, 2025 04:36 PM (TN0g+)

45 Danger to self, danger to others, gravely disabled. You be the judge. Hat tip to Paul Harrell.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at November 25, 2025 04:36 PM (r0dOk)

46 You cannot live in America without thinking about guns.

Well, duh!, how else am I going to decide which one I want to buy next? Stupid bint.

Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2025 04:36 PM (mADJX)

47 40 If it is an abstract nude , her face will be where her vagina should be and her vagina would be her right ear
Posted by: Smell the Glove
======
So basically a Picasso.

Posted by: whig at November 25, 2025 04:36 PM (WDjG6)

48 What the f*** are you talking about, Madam, and would you mind stopping talking about it?

This seems to sum up her entire oeuvre.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2025 04:36 PM (Riz8t)

49 Just FYI Ace but when you put so many lines above the "fold" it can make the front page unusable for iOS device users if it happens to be a day when the mysterious iOS Front Page Bug decides to visit. Fewer lines between the top of the page and the "Comments" link gives us a fighting chance to get to the link before the page crashes.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 25, 2025 04:36 PM (3nLb4)

50 Hold up a sec. I am having flashbacks to that time I had to read Sylvia Plath.

I almost took Ace's path to get out of that onr.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 25, 2025 04:37 PM (kIamG)

51 And about that "abstract nude" business. They're not talking about something Picasso-esque, are they? Is she going to look like a stack of Rubik's cubes?
Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2025 04:28 PM (mADJX)

Pubix cubes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 04:33 PM

Haha! Yesssssssss!

Posted by: Ed McMahon at November 25, 2025 04:37 PM (jc0TO)

52 30 Pubix cubes. - Alberta Oil Peon

Haw!

Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2025 04:37 PM (mADJX)

53 She has a very angular, exotic face on a very slim-n-thin body. To me it's off putting.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 25, 2025 04:37 PM (wVcYX)

54 TLR

That gal needs a sammich.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at November 25, 2025 04:38 PM (7Uzjh)

55 Jeez. ace gave us the full 10 inches of content with no jump, lube.

Fucking hell, man. I did not sign up for the garrett experience today.

Also, let's see the nude first before we rush to judgement.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 04:38 PM (zZu0s)

56 Compson not Snopes. Wrong book

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 04:38 PM (bfwj/)

57 If it is an abstract nude , her face will be where her vagina should be and her vagina would be her right ear
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Oo!! I saw that film!! I believe it was called "Insatiable".

Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2025 04:38 PM (cYBz/)

58 She kind of looks like younger cathy moriarty

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 25, 2025 04:38 PM (bXbFr)

59 She is weird looking.

The real question is: who is better looking...Nuzzi, or Mike Obama?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2025 04:39 PM (n9ltV)

60 From his mouth the bullet theoretical launched the bullet possible.
.......

Wow. Now I'm impressed.

Posted by: wth at November 25, 2025 04:40 PM (v0R5T)

61 She's trying to make the skinny brows of the 90s and early aughts happen and they're not going to happen.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2025 04:40 PM (fGmWu)

62 Vanity fait is the skankiest illustrated lefty propaganda

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 25, 2025 04:40 PM (bXbFr)

63
She's a Dracula's Castle 2.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at November 25, 2025 04:40 PM (xG4kz)

64 That's a lot of words about someone I don't care about. At all.

Posted by: NCDave at November 25, 2025 04:40 PM (VQC/c)

65 >>>Like, for example, Sarah Jessica Parker will be munching an everything bagel and wondering if all the spices clash with each other and then begin babbling about whether or not one can or should try to have an "everything relationship" or if one should have separate bagels -- different people -- to fulfill different needs. Maybe we need a Sex Bagel and a Confidante Bagel and a Going Shopping on Sunday Bagel. Maybe it's wrong to expect or even want an Everything Bagel for every situation.


Ace, if you were trying to discredit the theory that you and garrett are the same person, this is....not helping.

Posted by: Dr. T at November 25, 2025 04:40 PM (KKJEY)

66 Oo!! I saw that film!! I believe it was called "Insatiable".
Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2025 04:38 PM (cYBz/)

It was so weird to see that Steve Martin arrow trick employed like that.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 04:40 PM (zZu0s)

67 This post is brought to you by Cocaine.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at November 25, 2025 04:40 PM (bNf8H)

68 The nc 17 mamdani profile last month

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 25, 2025 04:40 PM (bXbFr)

69 This "abstract nude" better be tomorrow's art on the thread.

So we can opine on its merits.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2025 04:41 PM (NwnyJ)

70 I really like everything bagels.

And now it will be years before I consume one, without thinking of the horse-faced actress.

So cruel, Mr. Ace.

And so close to Pride Month.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at November 25, 2025 04:41 PM (8AONa)

71

We have to just add words, and add words, and add more words, whether they make sense when arranged next to each other or not.

Clickety-clack.

Paid by the word, not by the thought.

Posted by: imp at November 25, 2025 04:41 PM (g6TN6)

72 @59 CBD, Big Mike looks like she's getting Ozempic face. Getting worse looking if that is possible

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 04:41 PM (bfwj/)

73 She go to the Hunter S. Thompson writing school?

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 04:42 PM (mP0Kj)

74 I saw Dick Riding Flake open for Faster Pussycat in '88 at the Civic arena.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 25, 2025 04:42 PM (BC1U2)

75

Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 by Marcel Duchamp

https://t.ly/0suJ6

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 25, 2025 04:42 PM (pkeXY)

76 Probably meth

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 25, 2025 04:42 PM (bXbFr)

77 Why does she matter?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at November 25, 2025 04:42 PM (kTd/k)

78 mysterious iOS Front Page Bug

I can often get around it by hitting the X on the address bar to stop loading the page. But it's a bit of a video game..... gotta hit it after the comments links appear, but before the mysterious reload code starts.

Posted by: mikeski at November 25, 2025 04:42 PM (OLTwP)

79 I only managed to read like 20% of this article before the endless vacuous quotes made me want to stick an icepick in my ear. Sadly I have no icepick.

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at November 25, 2025 04:42 PM (r+xel)

80 And now it will be years before I consume one, without thinking of the horse-faced actress.

Posted by: 2009Refugee
========
I say Neigh!!!!!

Posted by: Mr. Ed at November 25, 2025 04:42 PM (WDjG6)

81 Nuzzi's pic looks AI. Best looking pic of her.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 25, 2025 04:42 PM (P9xGM)

82 She has a very angular, exotic face on a very slim-n-thin body. To me it's off putting.
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 25, 2025 04:37 PM (wVcYX)

My exact thoughts on Ann Coulter, Calista Flockhart and late stage Megyn Kelly.

Also *slaps dick on table* the same thing about the angular face for Bo Derek.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 04:42 PM (zZu0s)

83 THAT is a lot of words. I tried to read it. Really. I could have been first you know.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 04:43 PM (vFG9F)

84 >>>an abstract nude portrait of scandal-plagued editor Olivia Nuzzi

Like, by Mondian? Or latterly mondianesque?

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 04:43 PM (RuTUS)

85 She's mighty thin. As Old Paco would have said, if she drank a can of tomato juice she'd look like a thermometer.

Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2025 04:43 PM (mADJX)

86 Obligatory:

https://youtu.be/zhyCL-ELRxg

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 25, 2025 04:43 PM (O7YUW)

87 She is not beautiful.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 04:43 PM (RuTUS)

88 79 I only managed to read like 20% of this article before the endless vacuous quotes made me want to stick an icepick in my ear. Sadly I have no icepick.
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts
======
As bad as it is, imagine an academic version of Nuzzi's prose. That is what has been published for the last 20-30 years in a lot of journals.

Posted by: whig at November 25, 2025 04:43 PM (WDjG6)

89 What I get from this is that she wanted to fuck Trump and he turned her down.

Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2025 04:44 PM (YwEeS)

90 Ace? This is awesome.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 25, 2025 04:44 PM (xcxpd)

91 I think pixel out the more important parts

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 04:44 PM (+qU29)

92 35

The existence of Olivia Nuzzi's writing proves that God cannot both be all-good and all-powerful.

As a writer, all I can say is ... word.
Posted by: imp at November 25, 2025 04:35 PM (g6TN6)

But... BIRD is the word... this is known...

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 04:44 PM (mP0Kj)

93 Big Mike looks like she's getting Ozempic face. Getting worse looking if that is possible
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 04:41 PM (bfwj/)

She already looked better than Lawrence Taylor's well muscled frame in his prime, what more does she want?!
-Marv Albert

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 04:45 PM (zZu0s)

94 She's a Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen hostess 4.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 25, 2025 04:45 PM (wVcYX)

95 A world class fisking

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 25, 2025 04:45 PM (bXbFr)

96 I only managed to read like 20% of this article before the endless vacuous quotes made me want to stick an icepick in my ear. Sadly I have no icepick.
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at November 25, 2025 04:42 PM (r+xel)


That can be arranged.

Posted by: Joseph Stalin at November 25, 2025 04:45 PM (KKJEY)

97 I just sort of let the corner of my consciousness read her quotes. To read in depth for understanding brings madness.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 25, 2025 04:45 PM (jc0TO)

98 I need to reread this and really savor it, it's spectacular.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2025 04:45 PM (fGmWu)

99 I ordered: Whore of Babylon

I received: Babbling Whore

0/5 stars - product not as described.

Posted by: Jack Package at November 25, 2025 04:45 PM (8LP6B)

100 Paid by the word, not by the thought.

Posted by: imp
=====
Dumas and Dickens were paid by the word but somehow made their works interesting and charming rather than tedious and boring.

Posted by: whig at November 25, 2025 04:45 PM (WDjG6)

101 Nuzzi, or Mike Obama?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2025 04:39 PM (n9ltV)

Nuzzi. Final answer.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 04:45 PM (zZu0s)

102 That quote was from the terrible batman v superman

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 25, 2025 04:45 PM (bXbFr)

103 Oh and this chick is a total nutcase and every person should run from her, never engage crazy.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2025 04:46 PM (fGmWu)

104 This "abstract nude" better be tomorrow's art on the thread.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2025 04:41 PM (NwnyJ)

Even I have standards.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2025 04:46 PM (n9ltV)

105 True story:
Limp Bizkit says the original line was "I did it all for the Nuzzi"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 04:46 PM (T3zUV)

106 Stare into the mouth of madness

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 25, 2025 04:46 PM (bXbFr)

107 You know we are going get naked fat man on an Ottoman now don't you?

Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2025 04:46 PM (YwEeS)

108 I like it!

Posted by: Kamala at November 25, 2025 04:46 PM (8l8nW)

109 Went to a Duchamp exhibition. Once.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 25, 2025 04:47 PM (P9xGM)

110 Scan ariund for boiled bunny

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 25, 2025 04:47 PM (bXbFr)

111 Many years ago, a friend of mine had a pretty hot blonde girlfriend, who looked a little like the top photo of Nuzzi. She was half Indian, feather, not dot. Had a little white mop dog, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 04:47 PM (npFr7)

112
She thinks that she is " " " " deep " " " ".

She really is a dry hole on an alkali flat.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at November 25, 2025 04:47 PM (xG4kz)

113 So did you like the movie or not? Don’t be cryptic.

Movie reviews have really gone downhill.

Posted by: Darles Chickens at November 25, 2025 04:47 PM (c8xcb)

114 The unsolvable puzzle. Tripping once, on a balcony in Washington overlooking the National Cathedral. Smoking what I did not know was my final cigarette. Unless someone offers me a Capri, which does not count. The great cosmic riddle, I figured I had solved it. The joke was that the joke was never done being told.

C'mon, Ace, you're making this up, aren't you? This is from some "pretentious prose" generator, right?

Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2025 04:48 PM (mADJX)

115 It's 4:48, and michigan still sucks!

Posted by: Cray Cray at November 25, 2025 04:48 PM (OhTH/)

116 The existence of Olivia Nuzzi's writing proves that God cannot both be all-good and all-powerful.
_______
This means that we are finally being punished for electing Obama. Twice. It's justice.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2025 04:48 PM (s0JqF)

117 Somewhere an AI is being trained on nothing but Nuzzi's book. And that, petty mortals, will be the form of your destructor.

Posted by: Gozer the Gozerian at November 25, 2025 04:48 PM (3uBP9)

118 "It was the flag that thrashed in psychedelic distress, suggested a bend in lanes of reason, a tear in the fabric of consensus reality."

LSD is a helluva drug ... so they say. This is LSD induced stream of (un?)consciousness.

Posted by: illiniwek at November 25, 2025 04:48 PM (vbXSk)

119 Good Lord. That chick looks like a vampire.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 04:48 PM (77rzZ)

120 It's all about her.
EVERYTHING is all about her.

A few minutes later, the planes swooped down to spray the flames in the bluffs.

*I* watched from the Pacific Coast Highway, as far away from

*my* problems as

*I* could get on land, which was not far enough.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 04:48 PM (RuTUS)

121 +1 to that guy for use of Madeline Khan Clue clip.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 04:48 PM (zZu0s)

122 Her head is too big for her body.

Posted by: Final Decision at November 25, 2025 04:48 PM (qUkBO)

123 >>"People often, often people I do not know"


Ace nails it -- she does not care about the reader. This kind of convoluted pointless writing is a sign of disrespect.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 25, 2025 04:49 PM (kIamG)

124 Vanity Fair is just Hustler for AWFLs.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 25, 2025 04:49 PM (sAmhv)

125

Nuzzi the floozy has a coozy that's kerflooey.

Her brain is even worse.

Seriously, this is some of the worst writing I've ever had the misfortune to read

Posted by: imp at November 25, 2025 04:49 PM (g6TN6)

126 Went to a Duchamp exhibition. Once.

You mean the Men's Room?

Posted by: Oddbob at November 25, 2025 04:49 PM (3nLb4)

127 105 True story:
Limp Bizkit says the original line was "I did it all for the Nuzzi"
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 04:46 PM (T3zUV)

Oh, Brother Nuzzi, you must purge me... I need to be purged...

Posted by: Chandler in The Golden Child at November 25, 2025 04:49 PM (mP0Kj)

128 What kind of an idiot reads "Vanity Fair"?

Posted by: Estelle Costanza at November 25, 2025 04:49 PM (R/m4+)

129 Where is Ackbar's Nuzzi?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 25, 2025 04:49 PM (P9xGM)

130 Things are heating up a bit between Japan and China over Taiwan. Japan's new PM isn't into the kowtow thing.

Posted by: mrp at November 25, 2025 04:49 PM (rj6Yv)

131 103 Oh and this chick is a total nutcase and every person should run from her, never engage crazy.
Posted by: CaliGirl
======
Solipsism generates a black hole force field for people like her. Literally every thing revolves around her so she cannot help but tell us about it. And she does so in such tedious detail that makes Proust look succinct.

Her former boyfriend is not much better in his prose and for much of the same reason. These people do not write to communicate but rather to express whatever thought is rattling around in their brain.l

Posted by: whig at November 25, 2025 04:49 PM (WDjG6)

132 Around for boiled bunny

Of course this sort is al over mid wit publications like esquire and gq (the last did the sweeney interview)

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 25, 2025 04:49 PM (bXbFr)

133 She looks a lot like Nick Gilder.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at November 25, 2025 04:50 PM (PSEDc)

134 Just like everything is Bagels with Carrie Bradshaw, so with Olivia Nuzzi everything is fire.

--

And to put out that fire, it's helpful to have a water tower above your house.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at November 25, 2025 04:50 PM (KdMAI)

135 There are dudes that had to listen to the spoken version of her writing - after a romp.

Several of them surely feigned death in order to make the talking stop.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at November 25, 2025 04:50 PM (8AONa)

136 125

Nuzzi the floozy has a coozy that's kerflooey.

Her brain is even worse.

Seriously, this is some of the worst writing I've ever had the misfortune to read
Posted by: imp at November 25, 2025 04:49 PM (g6TN6)

Rates right up the with Michelle O's thesis, and Barry O's poetry.

Posted by: Chandler in The Golden Child at November 25, 2025 04:50 PM (mP0Kj)

137 113 So did you like the movie or not? Don’t be cryptic.

Movie reviews have really gone downhill.
Posted by: Darles Chickens at November 25, 2025 04:47 PM (c8xcb)

*weeps manfully*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 25, 2025 04:50 PM (xcxpd)

138 She isn’t ugly. She is ridiculous, but not ugly.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2025 04:50 PM (OoFl2)

139

Like stream of consciouness without the consciousness.

Posted by: imp at November 25, 2025 04:51 PM (g6TN6)

140 The existence of Olivia Nuzzi's writing proves that God cannot both be all-good and all-powerful.

Long-suffering is a virtue [looks anxiously at watch].

Well, that's enough virtue for one day,

Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2025 04:51 PM (mADJX)

141 The bamboo fisking had me rolling on the floor.
This was different. I was too worried about this poor woman to laugh so hard. Also she reminds me of a girl I once dated -- I bet she "sings" along with the car radio.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 25, 2025 04:51 PM (kIamG)

142 Ryan lizza or olbermann

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 25, 2025 04:51 PM (bXbFr)

143 119 Good Lord. That chick looks like a vampire.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 04:48 PM (77rzZ)

--

If the horns and tail were showing, I'd say more likely to be a succubus.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at November 25, 2025 04:51 PM (KdMAI)

144 I can see the Faye Dunaway thing. Good enough for a biopic. although I would go with Madonna.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 25, 2025 04:51 PM (jc0TO)

145 Nuzi is the name of an ancient city in present-day Iraq where a large number of cuneiform tablets have been found.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 04:52 PM (77rzZ)

146

Apes crunching on figs in underwater grottos is better than this self-absorbed, fright nonsense

Posted by: imp at November 25, 2025 04:52 PM (g6TN6)

147 124 Vanity Fair is just Hustler for AWFLs.
Posted by: Puddleglum
======
Remind me not to pick VF up in a doctor's waiting room in that case.

Sticky pages are gross.

Posted by: whig at November 25, 2025 04:52 PM (WDjG6)

148

Trite, autocucumber. It is a word

Posted by: imp at November 25, 2025 04:52 PM (g6TN6)

149 Jesus, ace...just how much Sex and the City did you watch?

You just dashed off a convincing script for 5 minutes of it, like it was nothing -- I'm gonna guess you can list each of Carrie Bradshaw's 57 romantic interests in order.

Yikes. Kinda ghey, dude. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Posted by: Pastafarian at November 25, 2025 04:53 PM (sifs3)

150 And based on reports, you'll be among the very select group of people who haven't seen her beaver.

-------------

Is it an albino beaver?

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 25, 2025 04:53 PM (T3zON)

151 "God, I know You have more important matters on Your mind, but: Why do You allow this evil?
The existence of Olivia Nuzzi's writing proves that God cannot both be all-good and all-powerful."

Heh ... yes, giving man free will (to choose good or evil) is all well and good, but this level of boring evil should be cast into some outer darkness, lest it spread to others.

Posted by: illiniwek at November 25, 2025 04:53 PM (vbXSk)

152 Ryan lizza or olbermann
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 25, 2025 04:51 PM (bXbFr)

That should make her cooter a Superfund site.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 04:53 PM (npFr7)

153 I asked ChatGPT to write a romance novella set against the backdrop of the Crimean War in the style of Olivia Nuzzi and it told me to go fuck myself.

Posted by: Jack Package at November 25, 2025 04:53 PM (8LP6B)

154 She isn’t ugly. She is ridiculous, but not ugly.
Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2025 04:50 PM (OoFl2)

=====

I dunno, Piper. She has a face like a shovel.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 04:53 PM (DRSnL)

155 Ace also nails it with the bagel talk. I am not sure the originator of that style is SITC, but they surely popularized it.

Hey, am I alone in hating every news article starting with "I was flying into Denver.... blah blah. And I walked into a office scattered with... blah blah.....

All that "new journalism" crap where they talk about themselves instead of the subject?

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 25, 2025 04:54 PM (kIamG)

156 People often, often people I do not know very well, reach out to tell me that I have appeared in their dreams. I wonder if this is because I sleep so little.
________
She has never appeared in my dreams. Never.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2025 04:54 PM (s0JqF)

157

A ten!
Posted by: Bucket Loaders Monthly

La-fucking-mao

Posted by: imp at November 25, 2025 04:54 PM (g6TN6)

158 So Ace is reviewing the entire history of motion pictures, not just the one. Cool. I am here for that.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 25, 2025 04:54 PM (CHHv1)

159 She looks a little like Meryl Streep.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 04:54 PM (RuTUS)

160 She looks like A Flock of Seagulls with his hair down.

I think the media will push anyone even remotely androgynous at this point. Still.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 04:54 PM (E0p3T)

161 What a slut.

Posted by: Case at November 25, 2025 04:54 PM (5Je/N)

162 I can see the Faye Dunaway thing. Good enough for a biopic. although I would go with Madonna.
Posted by: toby928(c)

Faye Dunaway at her peak was far better-looking than this chick.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 04:54 PM (77rzZ)

163 128 What kind of an idiot reads "Vanity Fair"?
___

I'm half-way through "Vanity Fair." The 1848 British novel. Pretty good.

Posted by: B. Sharp at November 25, 2025 04:55 PM (qUkBO)

164 The funny thing is she stopped lizza from writing about this long tale

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 25, 2025 04:55 PM (bXbFr)

165 but this level of boring evil should be cast into some outer darkness, lest it spread to others.
Posted by: illiniwek
=====
Sometimes the Lord works under the premise if you cannot be a good example, then he permits you to be a horrible one instead that no one wishes to emulate.

Posted by: whig at November 25, 2025 04:55 PM (WDjG6)

166 Unrealousity pads out the paragraph even better.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 04:55 PM (8avO+)

167 159 She looks a little like Meryl Streep.
Posted by: m
======
Did Nuzzi help Harvey Weinstein water his ficus tree as well?

Posted by: whig at November 25, 2025 04:56 PM (WDjG6)

168 15 Will this abstract nude answer the hardwood or carpet question?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at November 25, 2025 04:30 PM (kTd/k)
________
There are some things it was not meant for man to know.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2025 04:57 PM (s0JqF)

169 She isn’t ugly. She is ridiculous, but not ugly.
Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2025 04:50 PM (OoFl2)

=====

I dunno, Piper. She has a face like a shovel.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 04:53 PM (DRSnL)

If you get to know her I'm sure the ugly comes out big time.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 04:57 PM (8avO+)

170 I can see the Faye Dunaway thing. Good enough for a biopic. although I would go with Madonna.
Posted by: toby928(c)

Faye Dunaway at her peak was far better-looking than this chick.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 04:54 PM (77rzZ)
====

Keira Knightley 40 years from now, writing her memoirs.

Posted by: mrp at November 25, 2025 04:57 PM (rj6Yv)

171 I'm half-way through "Vanity Fair." The 1848 British novel. Pretty good.
Posted by: B. Sharp

I just finished Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which I got for my birthday last week. Fascinating novel (and I don't generally like novels).

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 04:57 PM (77rzZ)

172 This is "Stream of consciousness" writing. It was big in the 70s as I recall. Real crap. All those half metaphors flowing into other half metaphors -- this was the result of the drugs back then.

I think this poor lass has a mental defect though.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 25, 2025 04:57 PM (kIamG)

173 Yeah, one simply does not come across a face like that every day.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 25, 2025 04:57 PM (wVcYX)

174 This Nuzzi character is Exhibit A in why women shouldn't be in charge of anything. Important.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at November 25, 2025 04:57 PM (0t1wa)

175 What I actually said was "I would get a mullet for you."

Sheesh, this over-dramatic woman. What a theater kid!

Posted by: RFK, Jr at November 25, 2025 04:58 PM (OUE/9)

176 To quote the bard,
"it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."

Posted by: whig at November 25, 2025 04:58 PM (WDjG6)

177 There are some hawt but talented reporters she isnt one

Well no readily identifiable talent

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 25, 2025 04:58 PM (bXbFr)

178 That has got to be the most tediously funny post I’ve ever read.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 04:58 PM (ngbZu)

179 All that "new journalism" crap where they talk about themselves instead of the subject?
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 25, 2025 04:54 PM (kIamG)

A Journal is a personal document about your thoughts, feelings, and observations about an event.

A Report is a recitation of Facts.

When Reporters started to self identify as Journalists... the US Press started to decline... and continues to try to find the bottom... because now the 'Journalist' inserts themselves into the story.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 04:58 PM (mP0Kj)

180 There are some things it was not meant for man to know.
Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2025 04:57 PM (s0JqF)

Considering, I am betting hardwood floors as far as the eye can see.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 04:59 PM (zZu0s)

181 Certainly chinatown network era

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 25, 2025 04:59 PM (bXbFr)

182 160 She looks like A Flock of Seagulls with his hair down.

I think the media will push anyone even remotely androgynous at this point. Still.
Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 04:54 PM (E0p3T)

Lol

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2025 04:59 PM (fGmWu)

183 Apropos of nothing, I started watching AppleTV's Invasion, which is in Season 3. I figured three seasons mean that it was at least watchable. I'm a little over half way through season one, mostly by fast forwarding through anything that doesn't feature the mysterious force.

Why does anyone think I have any interest in the lesbian Japanese astronaut, or the bullying English prep kids, or the Indian woman and her cheating spouse?

I mean, it had Sam Neil in it so I had higher hopes but, the killed him IN EPISODE 1, leaving me with no one of interest.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 25, 2025 04:59 PM (jc0TO)

184 What the fuck did I just read.?

Posted by: BruceWayne at November 25, 2025 04:59 PM (MGB5H)

185 >>> People often, often people I do not know very well, reach out to tell me that I have appeared in their dreams. I wonder if this is because I sleep so little.
________
She has never appeared in my dreams. Never.
Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2025 04:54 PM (s0JqF)


She's like slenderman, but horrifies us with bad prose.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 04:59 PM (3uBP9)

186 162 I can see the Faye Dunaway thing. Good enough for a biopic. although I would go with Madonna.
Posted by: toby928(c)

Faye Dunaway at her peak was far better-looking than this chick.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 04:54 PM (77rzZ)

And regal. And timeless.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 04:59 PM (RuTUS)

187 I'm still wondering if Robert Z'dar ever found out he had a daughter.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at November 25, 2025 04:59 PM (asXVI)

188 And I meant no offense to the women - ettes - here. You have my everlasting respect. As does my wife, my daughter, sisters, et al. But you - and they - are the exception. Because you're not AWFL's. Of which there are way too many.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at November 25, 2025 04:59 PM (0t1wa)

189 > And based on reports, you'll be among the very select group of people who haven't seen her beaver.
---------
Those teeth!

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2025 05:00 PM (NwnyJ)

190 Nuzzi has nuts in her brain

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 05:00 PM (+qU29)

191
Whoa!

long post is long

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 25, 2025 05:00 PM (BihGC)

192 This is "Stream of consciousness" writing. It was big in the 70s as I recall. Real crap. .. .
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)

Didn't T. S. Eliot use that style in The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock?

"In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo."

Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2025 05:00 PM (cYBz/)

193
Autistic Detail Ace is best Ace.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 25, 2025 05:01 PM (BihGC)

194 Good lord!

Her writing is long-form Vogon prose, which would drive even them mad.

It is unhinged stream-of-consciousness that doesn't even bother with theme or coherence.

A mind reader, able to stand at a New York intersection listening to the simultaneous mumblings of 10,000 souls at a time, would struggle to decipher her writing and would retreat to the relative sanity of the crowded city.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 05:01 PM (T3zUV)

195 " Yeah, one simply does not come across a face like that every day.
Posted by: Count de Monet"

Unless you are a Kennedy.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 05:01 PM (vFG9F)

196 178 That has got to be the most tediously funny post I’ve ever read.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 04:58 PM (ngbZu)

Did you read the whole thing!

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 05:01 PM (RuTUS)

197 That has got to be the most tediously funny post I’ve ever read.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 04:58 PM (ngbZu)

So, it was boring but funny.

Are you comparing ace to Family Circle?!?

Fuck dude. Call him gayvall day and make fun of the China pattern he and Garrett are getting, but damn.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 05:01 PM (zZu0s)

198 What I felt was that the country had snaked its hand up my skirt.

Maybe they were looking for the switch to turn her prose off.

Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2025 05:01 PM (mADJX)

199 That gal needs a sammich.


Panera must've shrunk the bread portions again.

Posted by: DaveA at November 25, 2025 05:01 PM (FhXTo)

200 When Reporters started to self identify as Journalists... the US Press started to decline... and continues to try to find the bottom... because now the 'Journalist' inserts themselves into the story.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 04:58 PM (mP0Kj)
===

Muckrakers doin' what Muckrakers do best, digging dirt from the river bottom.

Posted by: mrp at November 25, 2025 05:01 PM (rj6Yv)

201

brb, writin' 'bout bamboo after a bone sesh

Posted by: Olivia Nuzzi at November 25, 2025 05:01 PM (BihGC)

202 She and Kamala ought to get together and write a book. Between the sordid affairs and the horrible prose, they are practically twins.

Posted by: bluebell at November 25, 2025 05:02 PM (79pEw)

203 In fact the double negative has led to proof positive I'm afraid you gave yourself away sir!

Are you trying to make me look stupid in front of the other guests?!

You don't need any help from me sir.

That's right!

Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at November 25, 2025 05:02 PM (JAqQQ)

204 Although her joan crawford impression was medusan in itd horror

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 25, 2025 05:02 PM (bXbFr)

205 I'm still wondering if Robert Z'dar ever found out he had a daughter.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at November 25, 2025 04:59 PM (asXVI)

Damn.

Nice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 05:02 PM (zZu0s)

206 183 Funnily enough Monarch also has a Japanese lesbian and I was watching for Kurt Russell(and his son Wyatt as young him in flashbacks). Ofc he died at the end of season 1 saving a girl boss...

Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2025 05:02 PM (YwEeS)

207 Faye was smoking hot in her prime

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 05:02 PM (+qU29)

208 184 What the fuck did I just read.?
Posted by: BruceWayne
======
"A dream to some. A nightmare to others!"

Posted by: Merlin in Excalibur! at November 25, 2025 05:02 PM (WDjG6)

209 them's alotta werdz

Posted by: DanMan at November 25, 2025 05:02 PM (8uzBS)

210 Aren't the Nuzzis those ancient people who drew gigantic line drawings in the desert?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at November 25, 2025 05:02 PM (kTd/k)

211 I'll bet her parents are proud.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 05:02 PM (RuTUS)

212 A Journal is a personal document about your thoughts, feelings, and observations about an event.

A Report is a recitation of Facts.

When Reporters started to self identify as Journalists... the US Press started to decline... and continues to try to find the bottom... because now the 'Journalist' inserts themselves into the story.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 04:58 PM (mP0Kj)


That's a great description and you're exactly right. Another word for journal can be diary. Which should never be confused with or accepted as "reporting".

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at November 25, 2025 05:03 PM (0t1wa)

213 Damn.

Nice.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 05:02 PM (zZu0s)
---

Thank you, sir. It was a deep cut but I knew some would get it.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at November 25, 2025 05:03 PM (asXVI)

214 What the fuck did I just read.?"

The Foundation Trilogy. In Sanscrit.

That's my take...

Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 05:03 PM (XuXeR)

215

She's like slenderman, but horrifies us with bad prose.
Posted by: banana Dream

Lol, instead of killing you, she makes you kill yourself just to make it stop

Posted by: imp at November 25, 2025 05:03 PM (g6TN6)

216 I'll bet her parents are proud.
Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 05:02 PM


They faked their own deaths.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 25, 2025 05:03 PM (jc0TO)

217 Nuzzi has nuts in her brain
Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 05:00 PM (+qU29)


The ChatGPT results for that search would be ... troubling.

Posted by: mrp at November 25, 2025 05:03 PM (rj6Yv)

218 Words. Words like fiery, flaming, flames of fire, fiery mouth bullets firing parallel lines of fire like stripes on a flag. Words turned turgid and festering behind my belly button, traveling, twisting, turning, bursting forth onto the floor before I can seat myself, ensuring gainful employment for The Janitor.

Posted by: The Mantastic Tor at November 25, 2025 05:03 PM (We5PL)

219
Listicles, you guys!

Everyone loves internet listicles. Probably the cheapest "content" anyone can produce -- a "list."

Posted by: Soothsayer's Listicles at November 25, 2025 05:03 PM (BihGC)

220 Well, it’s good to know solecism isn’t dead.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 25, 2025 05:03 PM (Qgg5f)

221 You can write like this and make anything sound "important":

--------
"The drone of the car engine murmurred. I could feel it like a cat in heat. Smoke billowed from the roof as we arrived at dusk. But it didn't matter. All I knew was I wanted it. And by God, I was going to get it. But I couldn't have what I wanted. The ice cream machine was broken."
--------

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 05:03 PM (E0p3T)

222 202 She and Kamala ought to get together
Posted by: bluebell at November 25, 2025 05:02 PM (79pEw)

Maybe they have!

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 05:03 PM (RuTUS)

223
She is the telomerase for all writing. She caps both ends with nonsense to prevent the narrative thread both from developing any sense and from collapsing under its own ponderousness.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at November 25, 2025 05:03 PM (xG4kz)

224 107 You know we are going get naked fat man on an Ottoman now don't you?
Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2025 04:46 PM (YwEeS)
_______
Since we've had two decent ones this week, we're due.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2025 05:04 PM (s0JqF)

225 Funnily enough Monarch also has a Japanese lesbian and I was watching for Kurt Russell(and his son Wyatt as young him in flashbacks). Ofc he died at the end of season 1 saving a girl boss...
Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2025 05:02 PM (YwEeS)

A friend told me there is an entire genre of movies about Japanese lesbians.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 05:04 PM (npFr7)

226 I'd given her a 4.2.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 25, 2025 05:04 PM (ZRzmB)

227 Faye Dunaway at her peak was far better-looking than this chick.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 04:54 PM (77rzZ)

And regal. And timeless.
Posted by: m

My favorite Faye Dunaway scene is in Network, where she's doing the nasty with Bill Holden and is babbling away about market share the whole time.

Although her joan crawford impression was medusan in itd horror
Posted by: Miguel cervantes

Yeah, I can't watch that flick.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 05:04 PM (77rzZ)

228
Vanity Fair just published its latest cheap-clickbait Listicle:

"Top" "100" "Best" "Comedies" of "all time"

Posted by: Soothsayer's Listicles at November 25, 2025 05:04 PM (BihGC)

229 I'll tell you what, you can tell she doesn't have an editor.

Not anymore, at least.

Because the amount of LSD and cocaine it'd take to seriously read what she writes yet remain sane is a Kill Dose.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 05:05 PM (T3zUV)

230 Her face reminds me of "sexy Squidward"

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 05:05 PM (sKqQm)

231 This is "Stream of consciousness" writing. - bob (moron incognitus)

More like "creek of sleep apnea" writing.

Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2025 05:05 PM (mADJX)

232 221 You can write like this and make anything sound "important":

--------
"The drone of the car engine murmurred. I could feel it like a cat in heat. Smoke billowed from the roof as we arrived at dusk. But it didn't matter. All I knew was I wanted it. And by God, I was going to get it. But I couldn't have what I wanted. The ice cream machine was broken."
--------
Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 05:03 PM (E0p3T)

This is MUCH better writing than hers.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 05:05 PM (RuTUS)

233 I missed this one, did they throw her in the volcano or not?

Posted by: Darth Randall at November 25, 2025 05:05 PM (f1kZG)

234 i guess they're not concerned about her jeans/genes?

Posted by: UncleJefe at November 25, 2025 05:05 PM (gAuAm)

235
Solipsism generates a black hole force field for people like her. Literally every thing revolves around her so she cannot help but tell us about it. And she does so in such tedious detail that makes Proust look succinct.

These people do not write to communicate but rather to express whatever thought is rattling around in their brain.
Posted by: whig at November 25, 2025 04:49 PM (WDjG6)

Condensed Nuzzi:

People often, often people I do not know very well, reach out to tell me that I have appeared in their dreams. I wonder if this is because I sleep so little.

Condensed:
I think I'm pretty. I can't sleep.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 05:05 PM (8avO+)

236 I had a manager, not my manager a manager of a different group, tell me that I appeared in her dream, along with a friend of hers, and we were needed to save the world.

My dreams are all boring slop, but turns out, I'm all action when I have walk-in cameo appearances.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 05:06 PM (3uBP9)

237 Oh no, I have a Pussy White Nuzzi on my tallywacker.

Posted by: KEIFF OLBERMANN at November 25, 2025 05:06 PM (IByKi)

238 214 What the fuck did I just read.?"

The Foundation Trilogy. In Sanscrit.

That's my take...
Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 05:03 PM (XuXeR)

Hunter S. Thompson, on LSD, rewriting The Foundation Trilogy?

(I know.... don't cross the streams! or memes!)

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 05:06 PM (mP0Kj)

239 Dial the agonizer to eleven

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 25, 2025 05:06 PM (bXbFr)

240
Didn't T. S. Eliot use that style in The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock?

"In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo."
Posted by: Tonypete
--------------------

Who came first. Eliot or James Joyce?

No, Don't answer that.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 25, 2025 05:06 PM (kIamG)

241 I had a manager, not my manager a manager of a different group, tell me that I appeared in her dream, along with a friend of hers, and we were needed to save the world.


Did it involve fucking like bunnies?

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 25, 2025 05:06 PM (jc0TO)

242 She's very fancy! Want me, love me! Shower me with kisses!

Posted by: Silvio at November 25, 2025 05:07 PM (R/m4+)

243 I bet she "sings" along with the car radio.

Is that wrong? Nobody told me that was wrong.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 25, 2025 05:07 PM (3nLb4)

244 237 Oh no, I have a Pussy White Nuzzi on my tallywacker.
Posted by: KEIFF OLBERMANN at November 25, 2025 05:06 PM (IByKi)

Can we call it a Tallywhacker?

Posted by: Principal of Angel Beach High at November 25, 2025 05:07 PM (mP0Kj)

245 This makes the 432 Hz conspiracy theory seem coherent.

Posted by: BruceWayne at November 25, 2025 05:07 PM (MGB5H)

246 Aren't the Nuzzis those ancient people who drew gigantic line drawings in the desert?
Posted by: Northernlurker

Nazca lines. Named after the Nazca Desert, not a people.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 05:07 PM (77rzZ)

247 This is MUCH better writing than hers.
Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 05:05 PM (RuTUS)

Sometimes I need time to get into character.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 05:07 PM (E0p3T)

248 ... even as staffers privately gripe that she has failed to carry out core duties since joining the magazine, according to a report.

-------------

That would be to: "Lie back and think of Olbermann."

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 25, 2025 05:07 PM (9XAh4)

249 > And based on reports, you'll be among the very select group of people who haven't seen her beaver.
---------
Those teeth!
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2025 05:00 PM (NwnyJ)


Follow. But! Follow only if ye be men of valor! For the entrance to this snizz is guarded by a creature so foul, so cruel, that no man yet has fought with it... and lived! BONES of full fifty men lie *strewn* about its lair! So! Brave knights! If you do doubt your courage or your strength, come no further, for death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth...

Posted by: Tim at November 25, 2025 05:08 PM (wVcYX)

250

So this is what someone (narcissistic) who lacks an inner voice writes like?

Posted by: imp at November 25, 2025 05:08 PM (g6TN6)

251 I was watching a video where a left of center guy posted Elon's tweet about watching fictional resistance movements and people then not getting it in real life and it amused me that the video guy went to great lengths to say "yes he really believes this" and...of course he does. You can't have watched the last 10 years of history and think he's wrong in fact.

But the left lives in this odd ever changing bubble. Do you know there is a literal trans-genocide? Ignore, for a moment that 10 years ago gay rights activists would have told you trannies were weird freaks and there are no such things as trans-rights.

So suddenly because the right side of the country didn't embrace their odd view of biology they are "under attack" and the "resistance".

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 05:08 PM (sKqQm)

252 Trump said he was going to call the two White House turkeys "Chuck" and "Nancy" but he would never have pardoned them. Heh

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 05:08 PM (bfwj/)

253 The other day when asked about the agreement he said if Zel didn't take the deal he'd have to go it on his own. FAFO

@zerohedge . 12m

Trump Snubs Zelensky's Urgent Meeting Request - Will Host Only When Final Deal Is Agreed


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 25, 2025 05:08 PM (P9xGM)

254 You don't need any help from me sir.

That's right!
Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at November 25, 2025 05:02 PM (JAqQQ)

*golfclap*

Well played.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 05:09 PM (zZu0s)

255

Because if these are direct transcriptions of your mindthoughts, you're in deep shit

Posted by: imp at November 25, 2025 05:09 PM (g6TN6)

256 (I know.... don't cross the streams! or memes!)

The Mule. In Vegas...

Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 05:09 PM (XuXeR)

257 All of that, and Ace sort of references a song, maybe.... So, now I can't not hear this song:
https://shorturl.at/2UROR

Posted by: GWB at November 25, 2025 05:09 PM (tq4sY)

258
What's Vanity Fair's #100?

Why it's Bridget Jones Diary, of course! We all remember that hilarious knee-slapper, right?

Dr Stranglelove is their #13.

#3 Annie Hall - not funny
#2 Some Like It Hot

**This Will Shock You**



#1: The Naked Gun

Posted by: Soothsayer's Listicles at November 25, 2025 05:09 PM (BihGC)

259 Oh it's a drawing? So it'll be like a cubist sketch of her beaver?

For the love of God, please don't have the beaver art feature on CBD's weekday Art Thread with a Zappa mystery click.,

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 05:09 PM (a4flb)

260 That's a great description and you're exactly right. Another word for journal can be diary. Which should never be confused with or accepted as "reporting".
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at November 25, 2025 05:03 PM (0t1wa)

Who was that reporter that someone (maybe Ace) said you should place "Dear Diary: " at the top of their articles?

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 05:10 PM (8avO+)

261 246 Aren't the Nuzzis those ancient people who drew gigantic line drawings in the desert?
Posted by: Northernlurker

Nazca lines. Named after the Nazca Desert, not a people.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 05:07 PM (77rzZ)

The Horde knows everything.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 05:10 PM (RuTUS)

262 My dreams are all boring slop, but turns out, I'm all action when I have walk-in cameo appearances.
---
This trap is depicted in "Dream Scenario". Don't fall for it!

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at November 25, 2025 05:10 PM (asXVI)

263 Ace, you're having diarrhea of the keyboard.

Posted by: Ralph at November 25, 2025 05:10 PM (8WZD4)

264 169 She isn’t ugly. She is ridiculous, but not ugly.
Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2025 04:50 PM (OoFl2)

=====

I dunno, Piper. She has a face like a shovel.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 04:53 PM (DRSnL)

If you get to know her I'm sure the ugly comes out big time.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 04:57 PM (8avO+)
________
Women love to say things like that. My wife used to say that Lena Dunham would be bad looking if... (followed by a litany of things she did wrong.)

Don't forget Saki's line. "With her, as with most of her sex, charity began at homeliness and generally didn't go much further."

Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2025 05:10 PM (s0JqF)

265 Trump Snubs Zelensky's Urgent Meeting Request - Will Host Only When Final Deal Is Agreed

I saw a leak of what the Russians are asking for and it looks about right - recognizing where the war is and frankly what the people living in those areas want.

And the left is freaking out, "this is a surrender!" and...you know what it is. Perhaps the Ukes should have abided by the Minsk accords if they didn't want the people in the Eastern parts of Ukraine to leave.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 05:10 PM (sKqQm)

266 Aren't the Nuzzis those ancient people who drew gigantic line drawings in the desert?"

No. They're Canadians who drew giant beavers in the snow.

Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 05:10 PM (XuXeR)

267 The Nuzzi of the Nazca Plain.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 25, 2025 05:10 PM (jc0TO)

268 So Nuzzi, she's like an untalented Hunter S. Thompson?

Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2025 05:11 PM (LHPAg)

269
Just gotta say: I am *SHOCKED* little shit zelensky did not attend cheney's funeral

Posted by: Soothsayer's Listicles at November 25, 2025 05:11 PM (BihGC)

270 I don't know how that monologue would continue because I just shot myself through the temple. Good-bye Cruel World.


I was right there with you, right about at that point lol

I'm ded

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 05:11 PM (emBoF)

271 sorry about the length above the fold, I fixed it.

I started writing this but did not understand how long the excerpt was. I just kept on commenting without ever realizing this was just a huge post.

Posted by: ace at November 25, 2025 05:11 PM (1wjle)

272 Why it's Bridget Jones Diary, of course! We all remember that hilarious knee-slapper, right?


My wife and I went to see that the weekend we found out she was pregnant, because we needed something light to keep us from freaking out.

Renee Z. was cute as a button in that flick.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 05:11 PM (77rzZ)

273 Nuzzi isn't ugly. But she isn't good enough looking to get away with how crazy she is

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 05:11 PM (sKqQm)

274 Her writing is like abstract paintings put to word.

You can see the shape of something but you're wrong because you must pay 6 figures to show how moved you are by the piece.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 05:11 PM (T3zUV)

275 268 So Nuzzi, she's like an untalented Hunter S. Thompson?


oh gosh but that is unfair to Hunter Thompson

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 05:11 PM (emBoF)

276 I would have fixed it sooner but I ducked out to do my run and finish off with the shopping.

Posted by: ace at November 25, 2025 05:12 PM (1wjle)

277 Nazca lines. Named after the Nazca Desert, not a people.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 05:07 PM (77rzZ)

Didn't that Kraut fella with the shoe polish on his head write a book about them?

Posted by: Made Bank Too at November 25, 2025 05:12 PM (R/m4+)

278 I bet she "sings" along with the car radio.

Is that wrong? Nobody told me that was wrong.
Posted by: Oddbob at November 25, 2025 05:07 PM (3nLb4)

it is during the news segments...

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 05:12 PM (8avO+)

279 Read that Allison Kraut is rather...er...difficult.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 25, 2025 05:12 PM (P9xGM)

280 Imagine her showing up for Thanksgiving, via Uber, with a half empty bottle of wine, stinking of weed, disheveled.

With a midget.

Let the good times roll!

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2025 05:12 PM (NwnyJ)

281 No. They're Canadians who drew giant beavers in the snow.
Posted by: man

With their pee.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 05:12 PM (77rzZ)

282 I started writing this but did not understand how long the excerpt was. I just kept on commenting without ever realizing this was just a huge post.


hey also the "monster" excerpt looks like you wrote it instead of Nuzzi?

or did you? I think you were quoting there. the monstery-canyony thing

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 05:12 PM (emBoF)

283 You know that line about being dumber because you read something, yep, I no good think anymore.

Only thing I learned was RFK Jr texted his way to some nookie. Good job buddy. Now run.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 25, 2025 05:13 PM (n5tGW)

284 >>> Did it involve fucking like bunnies?
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 25, 2025 05:06 PM (jc0TO)


No dear penthouse here although someone else heard the conversation and raised an eyebrow. But truth was she was just a very straightforward gal, the kind that survives in male dominated engineering, and would just say what she was thinking. Much younger than me, and married. We had been through a lot of crazy crap together and would talk about anything really. She was great to work with. Yes, she was also extremely attractive.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 05:13 PM (3uBP9)

285 Olivis's got herself a big brown beaver
And she shows it off to all her friends
One day, you know, that beaver tried to leave her
So she caged him up with cyclone fence
Along came Lou with the old baboon
And said, "Recognize that smell?
Smells like seven layers
That beaver eats Taco Bell"

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at November 25, 2025 05:13 PM (NtVYv)

286 Some women are so banal and used up that the only thing they have left to offer is their cooter.

Pitiful.

She has no idea what a woman is or should be.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 25, 2025 05:13 PM (6Bc88)

287

The extended length of the original post seemed appropriate for the ongoing babbling of nuzzi.

Posted by: imp at November 25, 2025 05:13 PM (g6TN6)

288 Imagine her showing up for Thanksgiving, via Uber, with a half empty bottle of wine, stinking of weed, disheveled.

With a midget."

You could have one hell of a weekend with that...

Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 05:13 PM (XuXeR)

289 how was the shopping Ace?

I planned so carefully to not have to shop tomorrow but the boys drank all the beer

it was even in the garage fridge! bad little men

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 05:13 PM (emBoF)

290 I was never taken by Faye Dunaway. She always seemed to me a 2nd rate version of Sharon Tate.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2025 05:13 PM (s0JqF)

291
Nazca lines. Named after the Nazca Desert, not a people.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 05:07 PM (77rzZ)

The Horde knows everything.
Posted by: m

She's got more of a Nazgul vibe going.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at November 25, 2025 05:13 PM (xG4kz)

292 She'd be a shoe-in for first place in the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, except I think that award has ended (maybe it was retired after something this woman wrote).

Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2025 05:13 PM (mADJX)

293 In a hilarious smackdown, climate alarmist Greta Thunberg got banned from Venice, Italy, after polluting the city’s historic waterways to send the ironic message that we shouldn’t pollute the environment.

The clown show unfolded Sunday, when Thunberg and 35 other members of the radical environmental group, Extinction Rebellion, were censured after they dyed Venice’s Grand Canal green in protest.

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 05:14 PM (B5maf)

294 One of the funny things about Nuzzi is she stomped all over a couple of feminist shibboleths.

1) Sex with an older, powerful man
2) Using sex to get access


Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 05:14 PM (sKqQm)

295 Oh it's a drawing? So it'll be like a cubist sketch of her beaver?

-------------

Old & Busted: Bonus Hole.
New Hotness: Bonus Box.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 25, 2025 05:14 PM (dL5jz)

296 I would have attended Dick Cheney's funeral if the US had sent a plane, offered accommodations appropriate for my position, and paid me $100,000 in small, non sequential bills.

Posted by: President Zelenskyy at November 25, 2025 05:14 PM (IifOV)

297 >>>ow was the shopping Ace?

surprisingly okay. I had a dolt for a register girl but I didn't have that much so even her stupidity didn't slow things down that much.

Posted by: ace at November 25, 2025 05:14 PM (1wjle)

298 Bravo, Ace. Read this twice. Laughed harder the second time.

Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2025 05:14 PM (2bFN5)

299
Her face reminds me of "sexy Squidward"
Posted by: 18-1

This one?

https://t.ly/w_6sC

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 25, 2025 05:15 PM (pkeXY)

300 That has got to be the most tediously funny post I’ve ever read.
Posted by: Tom Servo

I aim to be tediously funny.

I usually hit the nine-ring on "WTF?"

Posted by: mikeski at November 25, 2025 05:15 PM (OLTwP)

301 I still reread Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas" once every 5 years or so. He peaked with that one. Some of the pieces he did when writing for his syndicated newspaper articles were amazing as well--many appeared in "Songs of The Doomed". Hunter was half crazy, but God that man could write.

Posted by: Crusader at November 25, 2025 05:15 PM (TN0g+)

302 >>>I planned so carefully to not have to shop tomorrow but the boys drank all the beer

oops. Yeah, tomorrow is the day you don't want to be in a market.

I got to mine at like 4:30 so I beat the evening rush.

Posted by: ace at November 25, 2025 05:16 PM (1wjle)

303 You want her, ace. You know you want her.
...
Well, you're in luck!

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 05:16 PM (RuTUS)

304 I was never taken by Faye Dunaway. She always seemed to me a 2nd rate version of Sharon Tate.
Posted by: Eeyore

Even a 2d-rate Sharon Tate would still be awesome.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 05:16 PM (77rzZ)

305 I worry about Ace fasting too much but I worry about him reading crap like this MORE

you'll have a stroke someday my man!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 05:16 PM (emBoF)

306 Day...um.

Posted by: From about That Time at November 25, 2025 05:16 PM (sl73Y)

307 ooops I forgot to get the customary, traditional Vanilla coke zero, as our forefathers preferred on Thanksgiving and Christmas

Posted by: ace at November 25, 2025 05:16 PM (1wjle)

308 Thanksgiving at Ace's place!!!

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 05:16 PM (77rzZ)

309 Didn't that Kraut fella with the shoe polish on his head write a book about them?
Posted by: Made Bank Too at November 25, 2025 05:12 PM (R/m4+)

von Daniken never wrote a book on one subject, he just tossed in facts like a salad and added a question and moved on.

"The lines extend for distances, drawn in the earth itself. What alien technology was needed to create such displays?"

I think the non European natives could handle using a stick to draw lines in the desert.

In the hack lineup, he's not as fun as Velikovsky, say.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 05:17 PM (8avO+)

310 My first thought:

If I was rich, famous, and a Kennedy, I would be going after women way better looking than that. She's a bathroom quickie while you're on your way back to your son's birthday party and you've forgotten her name by the time you sit down for cake.

Posted by: Nelly at November 25, 2025 05:17 PM (Yjkx/)

311
Too long didn't read.

You people are hilarious. Love the comments.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 25, 2025 05:17 PM (3ek7K)

312 292 She'd be a shoe-in...

Er, make that "shoo-in".

Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2025 05:17 PM (mADJX)

313
Why did Coke make so many iterations?

I didn't even know Vanilla Coke Zero existed.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Listicles at November 25, 2025 05:17 PM (BihGC)

314 Too long didn't read.


honesty very worth the read lol

don't let ace's pain go for naught!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 05:17 PM (emBoF)

315 Always thought Faye Dunaway being married to Peter Wolf from J Geils Band was odd

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 05:18 PM (bfwj/)

316 I mean RFK probably just jerked off to her sexts on a private jet bathroom or something to kill time

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 05:18 PM (emBoF)

317 We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 25, 2025 05:18 PM (6ydKt)

318 311 Too long didn't read.
Posted by: fourseasons at November 25, 2025 05:17 PM (3ek7K)

TLDR maybe from caffeine.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 05:18 PM (RuTUS)

319 I dragged my folks to "Chariots of the Gods" when I was a kid.

I ate that shit up. "The Legend of Boggie Creek," "The Lincoln Conspiracy," etc.

Dragged 'em to those flicks, too.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 05:18 PM (77rzZ)

320 She is ugly, but she is ugly with
$1,000 stylist
$500 makeup at Elizabeth Arden (if they still exist.)
$10,000 photographer
etc.

Without that and she is a closing time 3

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 25, 2025 05:18 PM (kIamG)

321 Reading her ramblings (almost want to say prose but that's giving her WAY too much credit) reminded of the stories where a woman will meet some rando dude and think it's their destiny to be with him. She'll ditch her husband and kids and fly to Africa to be with the guy who barely acknowledges her existence.

But the 'Meaning beyond meaning' BS is your typical white woman wanting and striving for something in her life to be important right after she sent a pic of her butthole to someone on snap chat

Posted by: Blanco at November 25, 2025 05:18 PM (q83gU)

322 I didn't even know Vanilla Coke Zero existed.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Listicles at November 25, 2025 05:17 PM (BihGC)

No one tell him about the Mtn Dew.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 05:18 PM (zZu0s)

323 One of the funny things about Nuzzi is she stomped all over a couple of feminist shibboleths.

1) Sex with an older, powerful man
2) Using sex to get access


Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 05:14 PM (sKqQm)

Feminists like that stuff fine until they get older.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 05:19 PM (8avO+)

324 Luckily the spawn works at the grocery store so I just send her my last minute list. Kids ARE good for some things. ...

Posted by: lin-duh at November 25, 2025 05:19 PM (VCgbV)

325 >>> sorry about the length above the fold, I fixed it.

I started writing this but did not understand how long the excerpt was. I just kept on commenting without ever realizing this was just a huge post.
Posted by: ace at November 25, 2025 05:11 PM (1wjle)


Ya see, learn from Ace. He always gets you hooked by underselling the length and girth.

Posted by: Harvard Business Review - Reading List at November 25, 2025 05:19 PM (3uBP9)

326 One of the funny things about Nuzzi is she stomped all over a couple of feminist shibboleths.

1) Sex with an older, powerful man
2) Using sex to get access

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 05:14 PM (sKqQm)

--------------

3) Whoring herself out to be kept by a man right out of high school.

Oh wait, nevermind ...

/She's probably had more than enough abortions to pay proper "penance" to The Cult

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 25, 2025 05:19 PM (dL5jz)

327 ‘ Below, apparently her cute gimmick is to refer to RFKJr. only as "The Politician," even though we all know who she means and in fact her publisher's publicity department is out there selling the book by promising RFKJr.'s sext messages.’

Well, since her beaver’s had many logs in its dam, this could be some other politician she’s talking about.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at November 25, 2025 05:19 PM (19Bvr)

328 "fractured nose, shoulder, bone in my face"

@EndWokeness . 6h

New York residents told to call a "quality of life team" (not NYPD) while mob attacked a wealthy white area…

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 25, 2025 05:20 PM (P9xGM)

329 283 Only thing I learned was RFK Jr texted his way to some nookie.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 25, 2025 05:13 PM (n5tGW)

Was it consummated?

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 05:20 PM (RuTUS)

330 I didn't even know Vanilla Coke Zero existed.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Listicles at November 25, 2025 05:17 PM (BihGC)

No one tell him about the Mtn Dew.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 05:18 PM (zZu0s)

Jolt Cola - "All the Sugar, Twice the Caffeine" crossed the line to mood altering drug.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 05:20 PM (8avO+)

331 did any of you guys see the last version of Only Murders?

I swear I don't dye my hair blonde anymore but I'm that Italian mom. it's chaos over here lol

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 05:20 PM (emBoF)

332
This one?

https://t.ly/w_6sC

Exactly

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 05:20 PM (sKqQm)

333 Always thought Faye Dunaway being married to Peter Wolf from J Geils Band was odd
------

Na na na na na na,
Na na na na na na na na na.

Posted by: Crusader at November 25, 2025 05:21 PM (TN0g+)

334 Ya see, learn from Ace. He always gets you hooked by underselling the length and girth.
Posted by: Harvard Business Review - Reading List at November 25, 2025 05:19 PM (3uBP9)

Just the tip, my ass!
-garrett

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 05:21 PM (zZu0s)

335
Caddyshack is Variety's #22

It Happened One Night (1934) is #19

Young Frankenstein, at #9, is beaten out by Fargo #8. I don't remember laughing once during Fargo.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Listicles at November 25, 2025 05:22 PM (BihGC)

336 nood illegal alien NYT

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 05:22 PM (RuTUS)

337 Could be worse. At least they aren't showing nudes of Tater Stelter.
Anyhow, if she has to do shit like this to get attention, she may as well resign her job to "spend more time with her family."

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 25, 2025 05:22 PM (0Htd1)

338 yeah Fargo isn't that funny

is Grizzly Man on the list?

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 05:22 PM (emBoF)

339 Jolt Cola - "All the Sugar, Twice the Caffeine" crossed the line to mood altering drug.
Posted by: Oldcat

Jolt and cheap bourbon was a guaranteed memorable evening.

Posted by: MkY at November 25, 2025 05:23 PM (q6tQZ)

340 I loved his brain. I hated the idea of an intruder therein.

-------------

"NO WORM IS ILLEGAL, H8R!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 25, 2025 05:23 PM (dL5jz)

341
is Grizzly Man on the list?
Posted by: BlackOrchid

nope

Posted by: Soothsayer's Listicles at November 25, 2025 05:25 PM (BihGC)

342 I dragged my folks to "Chariots of the Gods" when I was a kid.

I ate that shit up. "The Legend of Boggie Creek," "The Lincoln Conspiracy," etc.

Dragged 'em to those flicks, too.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 05:18 PM (77rzZ)

When Velikovsky was claiming the planet Venus caused all the Biblical content from Exodus to Joshua he used the discovery of hydrocarbons in Venus to claim it proved that *carbohydrates* fell to explain the Mana from heaven.

Gasoline is not the same as bread.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 05:25 PM (8avO+)

343 sorry about the length above the fold, I fixed it.

I started writing this but did not understand how long the excerpt was. I just kept on commenting without ever realizing this was just a huge post.

Posted by: ace at November 25, 2025 05:11 PM (1wjle)


So and how does this make you any different from...her? Just askin'.


Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at November 25, 2025 05:27 PM (0t1wa)

344 Will it be Escher-like? Will we see various older men walking up and down non-Euclidean stairs into her beaver?

LOL, Damn, Ace, that's funny

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 25, 2025 05:28 PM (ynpvh)

345 Why did Coke make so many iterations?

I didn't even know Vanilla Coke Zero existed.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Listicles at November 25, 2025 05:17 PM (BihGC)

They spent like 70 years having no variants, not even Diet. It was the New Coke Fiasco plus Pepsi's plunge into variants that opened the floodgates.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 05:28 PM (8avO+)

346 Campbell's VP Admits Soup Is "S**t For F**king Poor People" With "Chicken... From A 3D-Printer"

Robert Garza, a cybersecurity analyst for the company, was meeting at a restaurant with Martin Bally, one of Campbell’s vice presidents, to discuss his salary.

He secretly recorded statements made by the VP and chief information security officer during a November 2024 meeting. In a rant that lasted over an hour, here are some of the things captured on the recording.

Local 4 News in Detroit broadcast portions of the recording. In it, a speaker identified as Bally is heard saying,
--“We have s**t for f***king poor people. Who buys our s**t? I don’t buy Campbell’s products barely anymore. It’s not healthy now that I know what the f**‘s in it.”

--He also referenced “bioengineered meat,” saying, “I don’t wanna eat a piece of chicken that came from a 3D printer.”
_ZH

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 25, 2025 05:29 PM (P9xGM)

347 "I don't like failed jokes, but I really despise failed "cleverness." Cleverness is a particularly smug, look-at-me form of expression that really rankles when it fails. (Which is often.)"
Posted by: Ace at 04:20 PM

That fits with what I have found as a 29-year-old, that it gets harder and harder to meet and connect with people, since experience makes it clearer and clearer that it's unlikely to be worth it. There's a natural human tendency to be *worse* to people the closer they are, as if testing it, so you're likely to be treated better by them by remaining a mere acquaintance.

This ties in with the brilliant He-Man PSA meme that I have quoted before, "There are two kinds of people: avoid them both. Until next time, friends!" Some are charismatic jerks who will treat you shabbily because they're accustomed to getting away with it, and others are nice by habit because they're boring and accustomed to getting tossed at the first meanness. Then there's the worst of both worlds: middling people who are nice until you start to be their friend, at which point they start being jerks, as if in relief to finally (they think) be able to get away with it. Best to avoid both.

Posted by: SciVo at November 25, 2025 05:29 PM (Sy6m/)

348


Corn syrup

Posted by: imp at November 25, 2025 05:29 PM (g6TN6)

349 New York Post@nypost
Bodycam shows escaped ‘Slender Man’ stabber Morgan Geyser busted with transgender friend

-
Do NOT click on this link.

https://is.gd/egrUSM

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 05:29 PM (L/fGl)

350 From her cheek bones through her jaw line and chin she looks like a young Roger Waters.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at November 25, 2025 05:30 PM (8hxDK)

351 345 Why did Coke make so many iterations?

I didn't even know Vanilla Coke Zero existed.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Listicles
-----------

To distract you from noticing that the original formula Coke was eliminated and reduced in quality and taste.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 25, 2025 05:31 PM (P9xGM)

352 Reading this gives me an idea: An upscale suicide restaurant.

"Garcon, I fancy a cup of your finest hemlock '13".

"An excellent choice, monsure, 2013 was a most excellent year. Would you care for a crisp leaf of lettuce sprinkled with camabere on the side?

Posted by: Minuteman at November 25, 2025 05:31 PM (47/pr)

353 Is that a current pic of her? Those eyebrows are something.

Posted by: Ktgreat at November 25, 2025 05:37 PM (33LJY)

354 All is proceeding as we have foreseen.

* wing flaps in unison *

Posted by: Big Penguin at November 25, 2025 05:41 PM (0sNs1)

355 I’ve been hooked on Cream Soda Dr. Pepper for months.

I tried a vanilla-infused version of Dr. Pepper at a restaurant and wanted it at home, the closest they make is the Cream Soda flavor.

I’ll get tired of it eventually but I’m going to enjoy my one can a day for a bit longer.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 25, 2025 05:42 PM (6ydKt)

356 Holy shit.

Read the whole thing.

Thank you for this ace. Among your best.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 25, 2025 05:47 PM (W2Pud)

357 sorry about the length above the fold, I fixed it.

I started writing this but did not understand how long the excerpt was. I just kept on commenting without ever realizing this was just a huge post.
Posted by: ace at November 25, 2025 05:11 PM (1wjle)

I have that problem all the time when fishing something really stupid. Larry Correia made a book out of one of his (about the 2A).

Posted by: GWB at November 25, 2025 05:51 PM (tq4sY)

358 I read it all, that woman is fking bat shit crazy

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 05:52 PM (+qU29)

359 All is proceeding as we have foreseen.

* wing flaps in unison *
Posted by: Big Penguin at November 25, 2025 05:41 PM (0sNs1)

heh, he said flaps

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at November 25, 2025 06:01 PM (NtVYv)

360 She looks like a Chucky Cheese 4

Posted by: Beartooth at November 25, 2025 06:10 PM (0714D)

361 TLDR

Posted by: Susan D Harms at November 25, 2025 06:16 PM (Kkd7F)

362 This was just a great post ace -- I read half of it out loud to my 22 year old daughter (she binge-watched Sex and the City a while back.)

And you're not really teh ghey for knowing so much about that goddamned show -- I watched it too. Innovative for its time.

Posted by: Pastafarian at November 25, 2025 06:18 PM (sifs3)

363 She's no writer, that's for sure. But with those eyebrows, it's obvious: she reloads. While smoking. So, we can revisit Sunday night.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 25, 2025 06:27 PM (zdLoL)

364 Can they digitally/AI someone else's snazz/beaver/kitty thingie onto her body? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: WTP at November 25, 2025 06:52 PM (4cfLi)

365 I am now dumber after reading about this Nuzzi slut.

Posted by: Indy Bill at November 25, 2025 06:56 PM (rZKoi)

366 "Will we see various older men walking up and down non-
Euclidean stairs into her beaver?"

The one savory piece of corn in this entire turd-post...

Posted by: TakeFive at November 25, 2025 07:03 PM (4DupB)

367 Posted by: GWB at November 25, 2025 05:51 PM (tq4sY)

Frisking, not fishing.

Posted by: GWB at November 25, 2025 08:35 PM (Srm6K)

368 17 Curtains for Zooshka?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 25, 2025 04:31 PM (mlg/3)

I got that reference! Yes, I think this is another case where K-Smog and Batboy got caught flipping a grunt.

Posted by: SciVo at November 25, 2025 09:18 PM (Sy6m/)

369 Compare and contrast for literary profundity.


"He was the mouse and the architect of his maze. The giver of his own pleasure and torment. He desired. He desired desiring. He desired being desired. He desired desire itself."

OR

"I BREAK BITCHES!"

Which is the more evocative? Just asking for a friend.

Posted by: wickedpinto at November 25, 2025 09:21 PM (j0s2W)

370 33 >>> I did not like to think about it just as later I would not like to think about the worm in his brain that other people found so funny.

I'll just hold out for the Dr Seuss book with pictures.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 04:34 PM (3uBP9)

I recommend the one by Gary Larson (of Far Side).

Posted by: SciVo at November 25, 2025 09:23 PM (Sy6m/)

371 Who was that reporter that someone (maybe Ace) said you should place "Dear Diary: " at the top of their articles?
Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 05:10 PM (8avO+)

Jim Acosta. Every photo of him looks as if it should be captioned, "Dear Diary: My farts, though always delightful, have never been more fragrant. I think it was the anise in the Italian sausage. I should have it more often."

Posted by: SciVo at November 25, 2025 09:49 PM (Sy6m/)

372 I think she was writing for Obama back in 2008. About when she should have been aborted, Oh, what a story she would have written.
"I just want to eat my waffle."
So profound. The syrup, brown, like his father, butter, nearly white, like his mother. The waffle, toasted to be in between, with hills and valleys, swelling like his rhetoric and holes where his soul should have been. Red, the color of his passionate Marxism, splayed violently over his hash browns. He stirs his coffee with a spoon like Big Mike taking him from behind.
This is Obama, my muse, my mystery.

Posted by: LGBTQ+POC, ANTI RACIST HERO at November 25, 2025 10:03 PM (6mk7C)

Leftwing Propaganda Media Declares DOGE Dead

Reuters is claiming that DOGE is dead.

They claimed disco was dead, too. But it still lives on in garrett's heart.

Matt Margolis reports on Reuters cutting and splicing an official's comments to make it sound like he's urging J6 protesters to burn down the Capitol.

Wait, that's what they did to Trump on J6. I mean, they edited his comments to make it sound like he's saying DOGE is dead, when that isn't what he said at all.

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was launched with a bold mission: cut the fat out of the federal government and save taxpayer money. The left hates DOGE and everything about it.

So, you can imagine how thrilled Democrats were when Reuters reported on Monday that DOGE "doesn't exist" anymore.


U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate, ending an initiative launched with fanfare as a symbol of Trump's pledge to slash the government's size but which critics say delivered few measurable savings.

" That doesn't exist," Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor told Reuters earlier this month when asked about DOGE's status.

The media pounced on this narrative, declaring DOGE dead, the usual suspects drooling over their keyboards to write misleading headlines, delivering eulogies declaring DOGE a failure.

But, DOGE isn't dead. In fact, the article claiming that DOGE doesn't exist anymore was actually true. Kupor's full comments were spliced. Here's how the article actually read:


"That doesn't exist," Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor told Reuters earlier this month when asked about DOGE's status.

It is no longer a "centralized entity," Kupor added, in the first public comments from the Trump administration on the end of DOGE.

Kupor went on X and blasted Reuters for splicing his comments, clarifying that DOGE as a formal agency might be no more, and that its leadership has shifted under the U.S. Digital Service; the mission itself isn't dead.

Scott Kupor
@skupor

Good editing by @reuters - spliced my full comments across paragraphs 2/3 to create a grabbing headline 🙂 The truth is: DOGE may not have centralized leadership under @USDS. But, the principles of DOGE remain alive and well: de-regulation; eliminating fraud, waste and abuse; re-shaping the federal workforce; making efficiency a first-class citizen; etc. DOGE catalyzed these changes; the agencies along with @USOPM and @WHOMB will institutionalize them!


John Loftus writes that DOGE, whether technically dead or not, largely failed in its mission.


Unfortunately, Elon Musk wasn't able to deliver on the $2 trillion in savings, then cut to $1 trillion, he promised. (And this sparked his earlier feud with Trump.)


DOGE pledged to save the American taxpayers $1 trillion, but they have fallen well short of that goal, even according to their own accounting. As of Monday, DOGE's website claims the department had secured $214 billion in savings, equivalent to $1,329.19 per taxpayer, through a combination of "asset sales, contract/lease cancellations and renegotiations, fraud and improper payment deletion, grant cancellations, interest savings, programmatic changes, regulatory savings, and workforce reductions."

...

All of these discrepancies suggest that DOGE has, in some cases, overstated the savings it achieved. A CBS News analysis published in August found that some cuts were overstated by as much as 97 percent.

DOGE secured minor victories, saved taxpayers a tiny chunk of change, and brought government waste, usually a dry topic, into the spotlight for several news cycles over the course of the year. But the fact remains that the Pentagon budget is still grossly high, with the Trump administration proposing a $1 trillion budget for the fiscal year 2026. Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill is estimated to increase deficits by $3.4 trillion over the next 10 years. The United States is $38 trillion in debt and counting. And DOGE's $214 billion in savings, whether that figure is even accurate or not, amounts to a drop of water in an ocean.

In a sense, DOGE was successful insofar as it was a marketing tool to placate fiscal conservatives. It made for good headlines, and it made it seem like the administration was draining the Swamp for real this time. But it is still business as usual in the morass of D.C., which means more deficit spending, an unaccountable military-industrial complex and a Pentagon that has failed seven straight audits.

I don't think this country will be serious about cutting spending until forced to at the end of a bankruptcy/default gun.

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Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 25, 2025 03:22 PM (QVmho)

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Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 25, 2025 03:22 PM (QVmho)

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Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 25, 2025 03:22 PM (QVmho)

4 Fourth

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 25, 2025 03:22 PM (QVmho)

5 Okay, I'll go nood now

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 25, 2025 03:22 PM (QVmho)

6 And noodeled

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 25, 2025 03:23 PM (QVmho)

7 Dead DOGES
Aren't much fun

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 03:24 PM (vFG9F)

8 I think the dumbasses in the media claim it's desd because it's been neutered

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 25, 2025 03:24 PM (QVmho)

9 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:24 PM (Zz0t1)

10 You can always tell when the media is lying.
The tell is that their lips move.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at November 25, 2025 03:25 PM (MNCvZ)

11 Didn't they get rid of USAID?

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 03:25 PM (vFG9F)

12 Well, maybe one day when Congress passes a done crying about how mean we are to make them do their job, they will write spending bills that reflect the fairly massive savings and waste that’s been discovered.

Or more likely, they’ll redeploy that spending somewhere else, so we never see it.

Posted by: Vengeance at November 25, 2025 03:26 PM (DD6gL)

13 $214 billion in savings, equivalent to $1,329.19 per taxpayer


Gonna need to see some math here... how many "taxpayers" do they think we have

Posted by: Operator Error at November 25, 2025 03:26 PM (rGPrJ)

14 Who cares? They were just after the low hanging fruit as far as fraud and waste went. They harvested that fruit and now it's up to congress to fix the underlying problems which they never will do and doge had no hope of doing.


Trump et. al. has made a tremendous amount of progress in the short 10 months he has been at the white house. usaid is gone, pbs is de-funded and the perpetual motion machine of ever increasing obamacare payouts to insurance companies has hit a serious snag.


We are seeing actual budgets passed for the first time in decades.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 25, 2025 03:26 PM (0N4FZ)

15 LOL garrett cruelty 2nd line in.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 03:27 PM (3uBP9)

16 "Good editing by @reuters - spliced my full comments across paragraphs 2/3 to create a grabbing headline 🙂 The truth is: DOGE may not have centralized leadership under @USDS. But, the principles of DOGE remain alive and well: de-regulation; eliminating fraud, waste and abuse; re-shaping the federal workforce; making efficiency a first-class citizen; etc. DOGE catalyzed these changes; the agencies along with @USOPM and @WHOMB will institutionalize them!"

So ... DOGE doesn't exist any more?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 03:27 PM (iFTx/)

17 I blame the GOP.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 25, 2025 03:27 PM (abIsI)

18 The BBB got rid of USAID and PBS by defunding them.
Otherwise, NONE of the DOGE "savings" have been institutionalized by Congress passing laws that would make it harder for the Democrats to simply re-institute all their grift after they retake power next November.
More GOP failure theater.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at November 25, 2025 03:28 PM (MNCvZ)

19 LOL garrett cruelty 2nd line in.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 03:27 PM (3uBP9)


This happens when you're conceived backstage at a Boy George concert.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:28 PM (Zz0t1)

20 From last thread, and then I'm happy to let the Tucker talk die:
>>>134 >>>And now, just as predicted, Tucker Carlson has come out and said he hates the Republican Party and will oppose all Republican candidates from now on.which side, Trump and Vance side, or the Lindsay Graham side?

So populist side of Republican Party (MAGA) or the establishment side of the party (neocons.)

Tucker, bless your heart. But when you make Fox News sound sane you know you've gone too far.

Posted by: LizLem at November 25, 2025 03:28 PM (gWBY1)

21 15 LOL garrett cruelty 2nd line in.
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Gay cat fights are nasty.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2025 03:28 PM (Wg6v7)

22 DOGE was never meant to be permanent. It was always supposed to go away after a certain period of time.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 03:28 PM (77rzZ)

23 I don't think this country will be serious about cutting spending until forced to at the end of a bankruptcy/default gun.
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You don't get either of those if they fool you into thinking that deflation has to be avoided at any cost.

You get runaway inflation, which addresses the government's misbehavior by making everything impossibly expensive.

Posted by: Methos at November 25, 2025 03:28 PM (vSvIl)

24
We are seeing actual budgets passed for the first time in decades.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 25, 2025 03:26 PM (0N4FZ)


We've passed a budget? I thought we're just kicking the can down the road with the perpetual continuing resolutions every time........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:29 PM (Zz0t1)

25 When's the food thread gonna start back up?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 03:29 PM (77rzZ)

26 16 "Good editing by @reuters - spliced my full comments across paragraphs 2/3 to create a grabbing headline 🙂 The truth is: DOGE may not have centralized leadership under @USDS. But, the principles of DOGE remain alive and well: de-regulation; eliminating fraud, waste and abuse; re-shaping the federal workforce; making efficiency a first-class citizen; etc. DOGE catalyzed these changes; the agencies along with @USOPM and @WHOMB will institutionalize them!"

So ... DOGE doesn't exist any more?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 03:27 PM (iFTx/)

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From what I've seen the DOGE office still exists, and it is mostly a reporting arm of deregulatory and cost cutting efforts.

Remember Big Balls leaving DOGE to take a job at Social Security? They've embedded people into the bureaucracy whose jobs are to cost cut.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:30 PM (GBKbO)

27 When's the food thread gonna start back up?
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 03:29 PM (77rzZ)


When least expected.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:30 PM (Zz0t1)

28 So ... DOGE doesn't exist any more?


ugh sorry I didn't save the tweet but someone outlined how agencies all had a "doge kid" advisor in-house constantly auditing for waste/fraud.

so the boys have been sort of dispersed around to the agencies

not sure how else this CAN work? and yes the CONGRESS should be cutting more things

lazy bastages

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 03:30 PM (emBoF)

29 Remember Big Balls leaving DOGE to take a job at Social Security? They've embedded people into the bureaucracy whose jobs are to cost cut.


yep TJM thanks

better put than I did

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 03:30 PM (emBoF)

30 We are seeing actual budgets passed for the first time in decades.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 25, 2025 03:26 PM (0N4FZ)

Really?

All I've seen is yet another Continuing Resolution, which protects the Left's previously achieved spending goals.

Posted by: Methos at November 25, 2025 03:31 PM (vSvIl)

31 For DOGE to hit the Trillion mark, they needed access to the SNAP data, Soc Sec Data, MediCare data, and to partner with ICE to find and deport illegals AND THEIR FAMILIES.

Hell, public Education is $975 billion a year... and I'd wager way more than 10% are illegals... thats almost an extra $100 billion right there.

But they were never allowed to do deep dives into that data... as they were constantly held up by Judges.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 03:31 PM (mP0Kj)

32 "I don't think this country will be serious about cutting spending until forced to at the end of a bankruptcy/default gun."

Not even then. The government will never -- not ever -- cut spending in an significant way because nobody wants spending cut. Sure, in theory you'll find wide support for cutting budgets. But not our budgets. Someone else's budgets. Never ours.

Something like USAID is the exception. That's not a "budget" so much as a program that was so insanely partisan and corrupt that Trump was able to nuke it.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 03:31 PM (iFTx/)

33 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger

Good to hear that you like Laura. It's one of my wife's favorite movies. I had never seen it until I met her, and now it's one of mine as well.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 03:31 PM (77rzZ)

34 28 not sure how else this CAN work? and yes the CONGRESS should be cutting more things

lazy bastages

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 03:30 PM (emBoF)

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But remember, most of our spending problems are...welfare related.

Like illegals going to hospitals to get free services which then Medicaid pays out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:31 PM (GBKbO)

35 speaking of x did we have a post on the first time they showed country of origin?!?!

I was on and it was FUN

like a lil hunt

very enlightening! lots of accounts went bye bye after (they closed them after being unmasked)

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 03:31 PM (emBoF)

36 Americans love Big Government and hate Big (insert industry here). Americans have mastered the art of lying to themselves and each other.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 25, 2025 03:32 PM (6KcYW)

37 There is a Doge sitting on me right this minute. He is very sheddy right now.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2025 03:32 PM (Wmg4n)

38 speaking of x did we have a post on the first time they showed country of origin?!?!



There was one yesterday on it, yes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:32 PM (Zz0t1)

39 The political establishment want DOGE dead, it's exposed all their hidden money troughs.

Ir sounds like even if the official program ends, pockets of it will be folded into other orgs and still active doing what they do.

It's ironic the only government program tied to the gravy trains, that has a set and date, is the most needed one.

Posted by: LizLem at November 25, 2025 03:32 PM (gWBY1)

40 We are seeing actual budgets passed for the first time in decades.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 25, 2025 03:26 PM (0N4FZ)

Since when?

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 25, 2025 03:33 PM (6KcYW)

41 The only way $38T (actually closer to $80-90T when you factor in the unfunded liabilities in our entitlement programs, state level deficits, state unfunded pension funds and muni bonds) can ever get repaid is by:
1) repudiation - simply refusing to pay the interest & principle owed
0r
2) hyper-inflation - which is what has mostly happened in the past. See Weimar Republic

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at November 25, 2025 03:33 PM (MNCvZ)

42 $214 billion in savings, equivalent to $1,329.19 per taxpayer


Gonna need to see some math here... how many "taxpayers" do they think we have


161,000,308 and one half "taxpayers"..

I do not think so.

Posted by: Operator Error at November 25, 2025 03:33 PM (rGPrJ)

43 "Good editing by @reuters - spliced my full comments across paragraphs 2/3 to create a grabbing headline 🙂 The truth is: DOGE may not have centralized leadership under @USDS. But, the principles of DOGE remain alive and well: de-regulation; eliminating fraud, waste and abuse; re-shaping the federal workforce; making efficiency a first-class citizen; etc. DOGE catalyzed these changes; the agencies along with @USOPM and @WHOMB will institutionalize them!"

So ... DOGE doesn't exist any more?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 03:27 PM (iFTx/)

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From what I've seen the DOGE office still exists, and it is mostly a reporting arm of deregulatory and cost cutting efforts.

Remember Big Balls leaving DOGE to take a job at Social Security? They've embedded people into the bureaucracy whose jobs are to cost cut.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:30 PM (GBKbO)
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Yea, I get that. But DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, does not exist any more. This was an own-goal. This could have been handled better than it was. Botched messaging gave them something to crow about.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 03:33 PM (iFTx/)

44 The best pumpkin pie is Costco pumpkin pie.

Posted by: There. I said it. at November 25, 2025 03:33 PM (tkslY)

45 There was one yesterday on it, yes.


oops sorry I'm all over the place here

well still thinking that's an important sort of emerging story maybe

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 03:33 PM (emBoF)

46 Didn't they pass a budget earlier this year, which allowed them to pass rescissions?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 03:34 PM (77rzZ)

47 44 The best pumpkin pie is Costco pumpkin pie.
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They are fucking yuge!

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2025 03:34 PM (Wg6v7)

48 Make sure you get your Joe Biden Christmas ornament before they run out. Or, I suppose you could just string up a Bic Pen. But, get a load of the realistic qualities. The ornament looks a bit like a puppet. Amazing!!!


https://tinyurl.com/5e2nw4n2

Posted by: Orson at November 25, 2025 03:34 PM (dIske)

49 One thing I'd like to see "our" side of the media begin doing is to provide some sort of *scale* when it comes to government outlays.

For example, somebody somewhere knows the amount the "average taxpayer" sends the Feds every year. So to demonstrate the true costs of a program, equate that to how many taxpayers it takes to fund the program. Pointing out that every SNAP recipient receives the entire tax paid in by 1.5 Federal Taxpayers (as a made up number to illustrate the point) might make the loosey-goosey nature of just throwing taxpayer money at problems.

Posted by: Crusader at November 25, 2025 03:34 PM (TN0g+)

50 40 We are seeing actual budgets passed for the first time in decades.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 25, 2025 03:26 PM (0N4FZ)

Since when?

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 25, 2025 03:33 PM (6KcYW)

======

OBBB was a budget.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:34 PM (GBKbO)

51 30 We are seeing actual budgets passed for the first time in decades.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 25, 2025 03:26 PM (0N4FZ)

Really?

All I've seen is yet another Continuing Resolution, which protects the Left's previously achieved spending goals.
Posted by: Methos at November 25, 2025 03:31 PM (vSvIl)

Yup, just went and looked.. not a single actual spending bill passed except the CR.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 03:34 PM (mP0Kj)

52 The ornament looks a bit like a puppet. Amazing!!!


https://tinyurl.com/5e2nw4n2
Posted by: Orson at November 25, 2025 03:34 PM (dIske)



It looks a helluvalot more like Bill Clinton than Joe Biden.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)

53 43 Yea, I get that. But DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, does not exist any more. This was an own-goal. This could have been handled better than it was. Botched messaging gave them something to crow about.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 03:33 PM (iFTx/)

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Yes, it does still exist. It will be reporting cost cutting on Friday.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:35 PM (GBKbO)

54 Shrinking the Federal government will not be accomplished by an Act of Congress, but rather by a sort of devolution in which people get disgusted enough that they just cheat on their taxes near universally (like people do in other corrupt nations) and States and municipalities establish "Sanctuary States" and "Sanctuary Cities" in which Federal tax liens and judgments etc. aren't enforced. I think one enormous choke point that could bring the whole thing down is retiring the Federal Tax Return as the standard for creditworthiness in lending. How many people put up with this nonsense just because they want to be able to buy a house someday?

Posted by: Alec Leamas at November 25, 2025 03:35 PM (ssz2a)

55 13 $214 billion in savings, equivalent to $1,329.19 per taxpayer


Gonna need to see some math here... how many "taxpayers" do they think we have
Posted by: Operator Error at November 25, 2025 03:26 PM (rGPrJ)

That maths out to 161,000,308 taxpayers. In 2024 there were 161,052,672 individual income tax filings. So on the surface this seems roughly accurate, assuming the $214 billion number is right.

Posted by: You asked for math, and you got it at November 25, 2025 03:35 PM (TbWk/)

56
Department of Government Efficiency
@DOGE

As usual, this is fake news from @Reuters

President Trump was given a mandate by the American people to modernize the federal government and reduce waste, fraud and abuse. Just last week, DOGE terminated 78 wasteful contracts and saved taxpayers $335M. We’ll be back in a few days with our regularly scheduled Friday update. 🇺🇸

Reuters
@Reuters

Nov 23
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter http://reut.rs/44tBkXE http://reut.rs/44tBkXE
1:43 AM · Nov 25, 2025

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 03:35 PM (RuTUS)

57 46 Didn't they pass a budget earlier this year, which allowed them to pass rescissions?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 03:34 PM (77rzZ)

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Yes, the OBBB was a budget, and it included 30+ rescission sections.

The current fight is over appropriations.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:36 PM (GBKbO)

58 " until forced to at the end of a bankruptcy/default gun."

An uneducated electorate and pandering politicians make for endless spending.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 25, 2025 03:36 PM (UEUdH)

59 That maths out to 161,000,308 taxpayers. In 2024 there were 161,052,672 individual income tax filings. So on the surface this seems roughly accurate, assuming the $214 billion number is right.
Posted by: You asked for math, and you got it at November 25, 2025 03:35 PM (TbWk/)


How many of those are fraudulent? My daughter has had fraudulent tax returns filed on her SSN every year she's worked. I'm betting she's not the only one.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:37 PM (Zz0t1)

60 47 44 The best pumpkin pie is Costco pumpkin pie.
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They are fucking yuge!
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2025 03:34 PM (Wg6v7)

I just made a pumpkin cheesecake and it looks so good, no cracks. My kitchen smells like fall.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2025 03:37 PM (vZUXb)

61 I love Laura!

One of the best parts of the Expanse was seeing a plot line beautifully fold in the plot of Laura. What DOES a grizzled private eye do when he falls in love with a dead woman? Seeing that in sci-fi made me happy.

Posted by: LizLem at November 25, 2025 03:37 PM (gWBY1)

62 In 2024 there were 161,052,672 individual income tax filings.

Posted by: You asked for math, and you got it at November 25, 2025 03:35 PM (TbWk/)

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Ah, but tax FILERS =! tax PAYERS.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 03:37 PM (DRSnL)

63 Yea, I get that. But DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, does not exist any more. This was an own-goal. This could have been handled better than it was. Botched messaging gave them something to crow about.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 03:33 PM (iFTx/)

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Yes, it does still exist. It will be reporting cost cutting on Friday.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:35 PM (GBKbO)
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Then Scot Kupar should have said just that. He botched the messaging even worse than I originally thought.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 03:37 PM (iFTx/)

64 61 I love Laura!

One of the best parts of the Expanse was seeing a plot line beautifully fold in the plot of Laura. What DOES a grizzled private eye do when he falls in love with a dead woman? Seeing that in sci-fi made me happy.

Posted by: LizLem at November 25, 2025 03:37 PM (gWBY1)

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I mostly don't like Dana Andrews. I'd rather watch Gregory Peck if choosing to watch planks of wood on screen.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:37 PM (GBKbO)

65 What DOES a grizzled private eye do when he falls in love with a dead woman? Seeing that in sci-fi made me happy.
Posted by: LizLem at November 25, 2025 03:37 PM (gWBY1)


Was her name Uuuhhhhhmelmuhey?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:38 PM (Zz0t1)

66 The only way I see the change being positive, being absorbed under a different name, is if it gets deeply embedded with secret tendrils everywhere like how the left does it when their organizations "end".

If that's this, then great.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 03:38 PM (3uBP9)

67 I just made a pumpkin cheesecake and it looks so good, no cracks. My kitchen smells like fall.
Posted by: CaliGirl
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All the leaves are brown (all the leaves are brown)
And the sky is gray (and the sky is gray)....

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2025 03:39 PM (Wg6v7)

68 43 Yea, I get that. But DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, does not exist any more. This was an own-goal. This could have been handled better than it was. Botched messaging gave them something to crow about.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 03:33 PM (iFTx/)

Go here:

Department of Government Efficiency
@DOGE

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 03:39 PM (RuTUS)

69 The ornament looks a bit like a puppet. Amazing!!!


https://tinyurl.com/5e2nw4n2
Posted by: Orson at November 25, 2025 03:34 PM (dIske)



It looks a helluvalot more like Bill Clinton than Joe Biden.

You're both wrong. It's clearly a recycled Mike Pence.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2025 03:39 PM (Riz8t)

70
Unfortunately, Elon Musk wasn't able to deliver on the $2 trillion in savings, then cut to $1 trillion, he promised. (And this sparked his earlier feud with Trump.)

=================

I'm sure DOGE identified $2 trillion in cuts, but they had no authority to do anything.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2025 03:39 PM (RfDQK)

71 How many of those are fraudulent? My daughter has had fraudulent tax returns filed on her SSN every year she's worked. I'm betting she's not the only one.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:37 PM (Zz0t1)

No idea. I'm just going off simple arithmetic and what the IRS stats page says. There's all kinds of fraud and scams at tax time.

Posted by: Remember the IRS NEVER cold calls at November 25, 2025 03:39 PM (TbWk/)

72 My daughter has had fraudulent tax returns filed on her SSN every year she's worked.
Posted by: Sponge

Good Lord.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 03:40 PM (77rzZ)

73 Old Milei clip about what needs to be done:

https://youtu.be/kUYPNsTpO4Y

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2025 03:40 PM (joBMu)

74 The best pumpkin pie is Costco pumpkin pie.

I understand that quantity has a quality all its own, but no, they aren't great pies. Perhaps we could cover them with solar panels.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2025 03:40 PM (Riz8t)

75
Good Lord.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 03:40 PM (77rzZ)


She has to call them every year. And every year they say they'll flag her info and take care of it and every year she has to call back..........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:40 PM (Zz0t1)

76 Was her name Uuuhhhhhmelmuhey?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:38 PM (Zz0t1)

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She said private eye, not brain surgeon.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 03:40 PM (DRSnL)

77 or here:

https://nitter.net/doge

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 03:41 PM (RuTUS)

78 I mostly don't like Dana Andrews. I'd rather watch Gregory Peck if choosing to watch planks of wood on screen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I don't think Andrews is wooden at all, just understated. And my wife thinks he was hot.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 03:41 PM (77rzZ)

79
She said private eye, not brain surgeon.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 03:40 PM (DRSnL)


You act as if I read the comments.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:41 PM (Zz0t1)

80 I have mixed feelings about DOGE

When musk would talk about all these people over 120 years old that had active Social Security numbers, did that mean checks were actually going to these fake people? He never answered that.

Also, I think Trump told Musk to stand down because I don’t think he liked all of these layoffs happening on his watch

Overall, though, I greatly appreciated the effort. I just think there’s a unitparty that doesn’t really want to address all the fraud.

Posted by: Maroon at November 25, 2025 03:41 PM (0Hj+P)

81 or here:

https://www.doge.gov

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 03:41 PM (RuTUS)

82 --------------------
All the leaves are brown (all the leaves are brown)
And the sky is gray (and the sky is gray)....
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2025 03:39 PM (Wg6v7)

That song really gets stuck in my head.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2025 03:42 PM (vZUXb)

83 I mostly don't like Dana Andrews. I'd rather watch Gregory Peck if choosing to watch planks of wood on screen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison



PLANK!!!!

Posted by: Ed, Edd and Eddy at November 25, 2025 03:42 PM (Zz0t1)

84
The best pumpkin pie is Costco pumpkin pie.
Posted by: There. I said it.

==============

Nope. Homemade, from an actual pumpkin.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2025 03:42 PM (RfDQK)

85 78 I mostly don't like Dana Andrews. I'd rather watch Gregory Peck if choosing to watch planks of wood on screen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I don't think Andrews is wooden at all, just understated. And my wife thinks he was hot.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 03:41 PM (77rzZ)

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I've seen him in like a dozen movies, and he's wooden in all of them, no matter what. His best roles are when he's allowed to play an asshole, like in Fallen Angel.

He is regularly the worst part of a cast. But, at least he's not aggressively bad like Richard Widmark was most of the time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:43 PM (GBKbO)

86 I think Musk did everything in his power to cut waste, but we have enough corrupt people in Congress to block his efforts. We need some leverage to get those stubborn people to move in the right direction.

Also, we need serious, humble, and penitent prayer before God. This problem is not too big for Him to fix and He laughs at obstructionists.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at November 25, 2025 03:43 PM (FMtrg)

87 Isn't Piper supposed to drop a recipe on us in this thread?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 03:43 PM (77rzZ)

88 If DOGE is dead the Marxists killed it

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 03:43 PM (+qU29)

89 Leftwing Propaganda Media Declares DOGE Dead

I don't want to hear a single damned fool blame Boomers for this. In 2000, the Debt Outstanding was $5.7T its now $39T.

Both the mean and median age in the House is just under 58 years old, which means the majority of those voting for two-three trillion dollars more debt each year are NOT Boomers.

Millennials are pretty much split R vs D in the House.

The fact that Congress totally rejected any and all of DOGE advisements and barely managed token cuts in programs the GOP has promised to cut for decades (but never did), confirms to the world that DOGE's real contribution was giving the Secretaries direction to make cuts, providing rage bait for many, and giving opportunity for District Tyrants to act as a federal HR department.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 03:43 PM (a4flb)

90 I don't think it's the fact that "the country" isn't serious about cutting spending, I think it's more the fact that any attempt to do so is met with an endless conga line of leftwing plaintiffs and the leftwing attorneys representing them pro bono or paid for by the vast sea of leftwing globalist activist money.

At some point it's an unwinnable war and the sane person gives up and walks away. Otherwise you're just waking up every day to slam your dick in a car door.

Posted by: ballistic at November 25, 2025 03:44 PM (3BwY8)

91 You get runaway inflation, which addresses the government's misbehavior by making everything impossibly expensive.

I'm fairly well prepared for that, as I have TWO wheelbarrows with which to carry cash to buy bread.

Posted by: t-bird at November 25, 2025 03:44 PM (+qfnT)

92 You act as if I read the comments.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:41 PM (Zz0t1)

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Well you said this morning you like when someone gets your joke. That was my way of saying I got that one.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 03:44 PM (DRSnL)

93 Doge, like Trump, hasn't been able to do much of anything because there's some liberal f*cktard judge blocking EVERYTHING they try to do.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:44 PM (Zz0t1)

94 Spending benefits specific people way more then it costs the whole populace.

And unfortunately a non-trivial number of voters don't tie together "why are inflation/taxes/etc" so high back to all the spending we do.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 03:44 PM (sKqQm)

95 Didn't the New York Times one time declare God was dead and still denies the Holodomor never happened?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2025 03:44 PM (+k/kq)

96 But, at least he's not aggressively bad like Richard Widmark was most of the time.
------------
Snort.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2025 03:44 PM (Wg6v7)

97 90 I don't think it's the fact that "the country" isn't serious about cutting spending, I think it's more the fact that any attempt to do so is met with an endless conga line of leftwing plaintiffs and the leftwing attorneys representing them pro bono or paid for by the vast sea of leftwing globalist activist money.

At some point it's an unwinnable war and the sane person gives up and walks away. Otherwise you're just waking up every day to slam your dick in a car door.

Posted by: ballistic at November 25, 2025 03:44 PM (3BwY

===

Privatized wins and socialized losses create an incentive structure.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:44 PM (GBKbO)

98 I mostly don't like Dana Andrews. I'd rather watch Gregory Peck if choosing to watch planks of wood on screen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:37 PM (GBKbO)

I hated 12 O’Clock High.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 25, 2025 03:44 PM (6KcYW)

99 >>> All the leaves are brown (all the leaves are brown)
And the sky is gray (and the sky is gray)....
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2025 03:39 PM (Wg6v7)


A weather channel, but everything is presented by Susanna Hoffs rocking out. It could be the American answer to hot mexi weather gals.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 03:45 PM (3uBP9)

100 Default gun won't do it either. It's going to have to be the real thing. Nobody has the appetite for that, so guess it was nice while it lasted. Destroyed by greedy nepo babies and fucking tech nerds.

Posted by: resist_we_much at November 25, 2025 03:45 PM (cpys8)

101 100

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 03:45 PM (RuTUS)

102
Well you said this morning you like when someone gets your joke. That was my way of saying I got that one.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 03:44 PM (DRSnL)


I am aware of the situation. I said I can trust The Horde to have SOMEONE that gets my jokes.

It's SOOOO much better when it doesn't need to be explained.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:45 PM (Zz0t1)

103 102 I am aware of the situation. I said I can trust The Horde to have SOMEONE that gets my jokes.

It's SOOOO much better when it doesn't need to be explained.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:45 PM (Zz0t1)

=====

I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:45 PM (GBKbO)

104 My daughter and I discussed the problem we have with all commercial pies. While we like crust, there is always TOO much crust to filling and too little fruit in filling.

Maybe I'm the only one who ever sees a pie filling can and says "where's the fruit" as I proceed to add a full can's worth of fresh fruit (with a little extra cornstarch) to any prepared fruit can. And obviously, when I do the whole scratch thing (which is a holiday/weekend vs weeknight thing), ummm, I rarely follow online recipes b/c they like to recreate "more crust, less filling" and less fruit that I like...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2025 03:45 PM (tOcjL)

105 Ah, but tax FILERS =! tax PAYERS.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 03:37 PM (DRSnL)

A lot of those are 1040s so if they're traditional employees taxes will have been withheld. There were loads of refunds - 117.6M to individuals - and 15-20% of which included child tax credits and EITCs. A lot of the non-credit-related refunds were likely from overwithholding. As to how many filers ended up as net taxpayers is a whole other ball game. Trust me I'm not carrying their water, but the number is probably roughly accurate on the surface.

Posted by: More stupid math at November 25, 2025 03:46 PM (TbWk/)

106
I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:45 PM (GBKbO)


Asshole......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)

107 106
I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:45 PM (GBKbO)


Asshole......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)

====

What's this say?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:46 PM (GBKbO)

108 Whatever savings are achieved under Trump, and even it becomes several trillion dollars, they won't be allowed to last. And especially as long as the prevailing mindset in this country is to run to DC for every little thing that comes up. There is federal grant money to be had for very nearly everything and, until the national mindset regarding that does a complete 180, folks will keep running to DC and cannot be denied.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at November 25, 2025 03:46 PM (bufu1)

109 42 $214 billion in savings, equivalent to $1,329.19 per taxpayer


Gonna need to see some math here... how many "taxpayers" do they think we have


161,000,308 and one half "taxpayers"..

I do not think so.
Posted by: Operator Error at November 25, 2025 03:33 PM (rGPrJ)

IRS says 163 million Tax returns... 39.6% of which owe no tax, and many of whom get a rebate like child care rebate.

So, really, about 98 million pay... although the number of Jointly Filed returns I did not find...

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 03:46 PM (mP0Kj)

110 Ace: "I don't think this country will be serious about cutting spending until forced to at the end of a bankruptcy/default gun."

You are correct, Ace. Minor, insignificant spending cuts will occur, but major cuts will occur only after an economic collapse. I have thought this for decades. It's just an unfortunate aspect of our form of government.

Posted by: Ralph at November 25, 2025 03:47 PM (8WZD4)

111 >>> I mostly don't like Dana Andrews. I'd rather watch Gregory Peck if choosing to watch planks of wood on screen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:37 PM (GBKbO)

True, but Dana is not as important as the rest of cast. Gene Tierney is luminous, Vincent Price is deliciously slimy, and Clifton Webb plays the overprotective snob to perfection. Love them.

Does Dana Andrews' character deserve aLaura? No. But it's her life to Decide, not anyone else's. If she wants a lousy man, that's her problem.

In the Expanse, Thomas Jane played the Dana role just right.

Posted by: LizLem at November 25, 2025 03:47 PM (gWBY1)

112 "Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill is estimated to increase deficits by $3.4 trillion over the next 10 years."

Isn't that a huge improvement? Way back in Bush days Obama blamed Bush for increasing the deficit from $5T to $9T, then Obama proceeded to double that rate of increase. So now we are at $38T, and increase of $29T since 2009. Call it $2T/year ... so $3.4T over ten years sounds awesome. (or am I missing something? heh)

Obama on that debt
https://youtu.be/j7UyQqrvOg0?t=48

Posted by: illiniwek at November 25, 2025 03:47 PM (vbXSk)

113 ====

What's this say?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:46 PM (GBKbO)


ITS FUNNY BECAUSE YOU'RE ALWAYS CLAIMING TO BE AN ILLITERATE ASSHOLE WHO WRITES BOOKS AND HAS A MOVIE DISCUSSION THREAD EVERY WEEK.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at November 25, 2025 03:47 PM (Zz0t1)

114 87 Isn't Piper supposed to drop a recipe on us in this thread?
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 03:43 PM (77rzZ)

I think so!

236 And mushroom soup?!

OK, I have no good substitute for that. I mean, I'm sure it's possible to make from scratch but who would bother with that?
Posted by: Oddbob at November 25, 2025

I do! Will post next thread.
Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2025 03:17 PM (Wmg4n)

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 03:47 PM (RuTUS)

115 DOGE proved the NGOs were lying thieves, none of them had their heads taken off.

Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2025 03:47 PM (LHPAg)

116 108 Whatever savings are achieved under Trump, and even it becomes several trillion dollars, they won't be allowed to last. And especially as long as the prevailing mindset in this country is to run to DC for every little thing that comes up. LCMS Rulz!

That's my biggest fear, with respect to fiscal matters.

Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2025 03:48 PM (mADJX)

117 The funniest scene with Dana Andrews in it is in Barbara Stanwyck's Ball of Fire, where Andrews tries to fight Gary Cooper. Andrews was a shorty, and Cooper, of course, quite tall. You can't see the disparity so much on screen, but just the idea makes me chuckle.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 03:48 PM (77rzZ)

118 Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh

LMFAO! Leftists are FURIOUS with Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) after he got exposed for stating facts behind closed doors

"Dem women look like Dem men, and Dem men look like women"

He's not supposed to say that!

"We look like not the fun party...not allowing men to [be] men, women to be hot..." 💀

The coward won't say it publicly.

https://tinyurl.com/22m8dzwk

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2025 03:48 PM (NpAcC)

119 111 True, but Dana is not as important as the rest of cast. Gene Tierney is luminous, Vincent Price is deliciously slimy, and Clifton Webb plays the overprotective snob to perfection. Love them.

Does Dana Andrews' character deserve aLaura? No. But it's her life to Decide, not anyone else's. If she wants a lousy man, that's her problem.

In the Expanse, Thomas Jane played the Dana role just right.

Posted by: LizLem at November 25, 2025 03:47 PM (gWBY1)

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I just don't get swept up in the romance of the second half because it's centered on Andrews' obsession with a woman, and I'm watching a plank of wood's obsession.

Dana Andrews should have been the character actor who played the boring Cop #3, not a leading man.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:48 PM (GBKbO)

120 That maths out to 161,000,308 taxpayers. In 2024 there were 161,052,672 individual income tax filings. So on the surface this seems roughly accurate, assuming the $214 billion number is right.
Posted by: You asked for math, and you got it

I am guessing a significant part of the 161 million filers pay no net taxes.

Posted by: Operator Error at November 25, 2025 03:49 PM (rGPrJ)

121 2 versions of green bean casserole, starting with the healthier version:

• 6 cups green beans (trimmed)
• 1 1/2 cups pearl onions
• 2 cloves garlic (minced)
• 1 cup mushrooms (of your choice, sliced)
• 1 Tbsp butter
• 1 Tbsp olive oil
• 1 cup low fat plain Greek yogurt
• 2 Tbsp flour
• 1/4 tsp black pepper
• 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese (shredded)
• 1/2 cup toasted almonds (sliced)
Preheat oven to 350.
Sauté the onions and garlic in the oil and butter over med high heat until golden. Reduce heat and add the mushrooms, cook 5 mins, add green beans and cook until they just begin to soften.

In separate bowl, combine yogurt, flour, pepper and salt to taste. After allowing the green bean mixture to cool slightly, mix in. Put in a 2 qt casserole, top with cheese and almonds, bake 35 mins.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2025 03:49 PM (OoFl2)

122 Republicans are worried about the midterms. So ....

List of pending bills to enact Trump's wildly popular agenda:






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Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 03:49 PM (T3zUV)

123 Also, we need serious, humble, and penitent prayer before God. This problem is not too big for Him to fix and He laughs at obstructionists.

You realize that God is also the head of FAFO and the OT is rife with colorful illustrations of wiped out civilizations and nations due to the haughtiness and sin of the people and their leadership and God sending various forms of judgement.

My favorite passages involve Ahab and the prophet Machaia where the LORD of heaven granted permission to a Spirit to put a "lying spirit" in all of the King's counselors.

Our government is full to the rafters in liars and those totally given over to demonic spirits.

What exactly do you think the "fix" is for outright rebellion and idolatry?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 03:49 PM (a4flb)

124 103 102 I am aware of the situation. I said I can trust The Horde to have SOMEONE that gets my jokes.

It's SOOOO much better when it doesn't need to be explained.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:45 PM (Zz0t1)

=====

I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:45 PM (GBKbO)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE HE IS TRYING TO GET HIM TO EXPLAIN IT

Posted by: BEN ROTHLESBERGER at November 25, 2025 03:49 PM (mP0Kj)

125 113 ====

What's this say?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:46 PM (GBKbO)


ITS FUNNY BECAUSE YOU'RE ALWAYS CLAIMING TO BE AN ILLITERATE ASSHOLE WHO WRITES BOOKS AND HAS A MOVIE DISCUSSION THREAD EVERY WEEK.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at November 25, 2025 03:47 PM (Zz0t1)

====

I think I get it now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:49 PM (GBKbO)

126 LizLem posted this, and a correction, late in the previous thread:

256 Oddbob, my homemade cream of mushroom soup is soup stock, real cheese, sour cream, diced mushrooms, herbs. Easy and healthy.

But I'm excited to see your version Piper in the next thread!

I learned how to make it in my strict keto era since I couldn't have added wheat. Can find similar recipes under "crack chicken" just with a thinner broth.
Posted by: LizLem at November 25, 2025 03:21 PM (gWBY1)

266 Whoops I meant "cream cheese" not "real cheese."
Posted by: LizLem at November 25, 2025 03:24 PM (gWBY1)

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 03:49 PM (RuTUS)

127 Does this mean crazy AWFLs will stop keying and burning Teslas?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 25, 2025 03:49 PM (xT8gx)

128 >>> 101 100
Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 03:45 PM (RuTUS)

Sorry, but it's all 110 111 these days.

Posted by: banana Dream - OHIO! at November 25, 2025 03:49 PM (3uBP9)

129 True, but Dana is not as important as the rest of cast. Gene Tierney is luminous, Vincent Price is deliciously slimy, and Clifton Webb plays the overprotective snob to perfection. Love them.
Posted by: LizLem

The whole cast is great, if you ask me. Also Judith Anderson.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 03:50 PM (77rzZ)

130 Doge, like Trump, hasn't been able to do much of anything because there's some liberal f*cktard judge blocking EVERYTHING they try to do.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:44 PM (Zz0t1)
*******
💯

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2025 03:50 PM (NpAcC)

131 127 Does this mean crazy AWFLs will stop keying and burning Teslas?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 25, 2025 03:49 PM (xT8gx)

=====

"Remember those two weeks when we were planning on firebombing Tesla dealerships? That was crazy."
-Karen McAWFL, stuck to the couch because of the fresh box of wine

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:50 PM (GBKbO)

132 I'm sure DOGE's "failure" in saving has absolutely nothing to do with every Tom Dick and Harry who depends on federal funding expending maximum effort to hide, obfuscate, interfere, obstruct and outlaw all of their efforts.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 25, 2025 03:51 PM (LFbOl)

133 I am guessing a significant part of the 161 million filers pay no net taxes.
Posted by: Operator Error at November 25, 2025 03:49 PM (rGPrJ)

39.6% according to the IRS... some of whom still get rebates and such.

Posted by: BEN ROTHLESBERGER at November 25, 2025 03:51 PM (mP0Kj)

134 39.6% according to the IRS... some of whom still get rebates and such.

Posted by: BEN ROTHLESBERGER at November 25, 2025 03:51 PM (mP0Kj)



IMPOSTER!!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:51 PM (Zz0t1)

135 Make sure you get your Joe Biden Christmas ornament before they run out. Or, I suppose you could just string up a Bic Pen. But, get a load of the realistic qualities. The ornament looks a bit like a puppet. Amazing!!!


https://tinyurl.com/5e2nw4n2
Posted by: Orson at November 25, 2025 03:34 PM (dIske)

Jeeze, Louise! Those are all crappy. And expensive crap, too.

I got my snow-augering done today. Feeling very virtuous.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 03:52 PM (npFr7)

136 I found at Ollies' bargain store the perfect Winter Holiday present for the AWFL in your family.

The XXL wine glass, box claims you can pour a whole bottle in it.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2025 03:52 PM (+k/kq)

137 reposting:

Department of Government Efficiency
@DOGE
20h
As usual, this is fake news from @Reuters. President Trump was given a mandate by the American people to modernize the federal government and reduce waste, fraud and abuse. Just last week, DOGE terminated 78 wasteful contracts and saved taxpayers $335M. We’ll be back in a few days with our regularly scheduled Friday update. 🇺🇸

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 03:52 PM (RuTUS)

138 I still don't have the Die Hard ornament.

I haz sadz.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:52 PM (Zz0t1)

139 134 39.6% according to the IRS... some of whom still get rebates and such.

Posted by: BEN ROTHLESBERGER at November 25, 2025 03:51 PM (mP0Kj)

IMPOSTER!!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:51 PM (Zz0t1)

/Hangs head in shame...

Serious Sock Failage!

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 03:52 PM (mP0Kj)

140 I got my snow-augering done today. Feeling very virtuous.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


You tell the future by looking at snow?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 03:52 PM (77rzZ)

141 I got my snow-augering done today. Feeling very virtuous.

I finished the cranberries and almost finished the gravy. TG is starting to look manageable.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2025 03:53 PM (Riz8t)

142 auguries auguring

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2025 03:53 PM (+k/kq)

143 If we are going to add new spending to keep Obamacare on life support, we should raise revenue as well by dropping the SALT cap back to $10,000 or eliminating it altogether.

Posted by: Oglebay at November 25, 2025 03:53 PM (2ap+5)

144
/Hangs head in shame...

Serious Sock Failage!
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 03:52 PM (mP0Kj)


Socking a regular can get you banned.


Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:53 PM (Zz0t1)

145 138 I still don't have the Die Hard ornament.

I haz sadz.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:52 PM (Zz0t1)

====

Die Hard advent calendar > Die Hard ornament.

https://amzn.to/4pwmPdS

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:53 PM (GBKbO)

146
He is regularly the worst part of a cast. But, at least he's not aggressively bad like Richard Widmark was most of the time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:43 PM (GBKbO)


I dunno. Tommy Udo was one of the great villains.

Plus, supposedly Widmark converted a WWII PT Boat into a yacht in the 1950s. Don't know how true that story was, but it sounds awesome.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 25, 2025 03:54 PM (y9nCu)

147 143 If we are going to add new spending to keep Obamacare on life support, we should raise revenue as well by dropping the SALT cap back to $10,000 or eliminating it altogether.

Posted by: Oglebay at November 25, 2025 03:53 PM (2ap+5)

=====

We should end all subsidies on the ACA completely, not just the temporary COVID ones, so that poor people can choose to pay $10,000 per month for shitty insurance or treating Emergency rooms like doctors' offices.

It'd be cheaper.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:54 PM (GBKbO)

148 144
/Hangs head in shame...

Serious Sock Failage!
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 03:52 PM (mP0Kj)

Socking a regular can get you banned.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:53 PM (Zz0t1)

Wait!!!! /looks in database

BEN R is a REGULAR???? SHIT!

Posted by: Bob, NSA at November 25, 2025 03:55 PM (mP0Kj)

149 My daughter and I discussed the problem we have with all commercial pies. While we like crust, there is always TOO much crust to filling and too little fruit in filling.

Maybe I'm the only one who ever sees a pie filling can and says "where's the fruit" as I proceed to add a full can's worth of fresh fruit (with a little extra cornstarch) to any prepared fruit can. And obviously, when I do the whole scratch thing (which is a holiday/weekend vs weeknight thing), ummm, I rarely follow online recipes b/c they like to recreate "more crust, less filling" and less fruit that I like...
Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2025 03:45 PM (tOcjL)

--- buy commercial pie and a can of pie filling for that pie.

--- top off the pie with your canned fillings, add other flavors if needed.

Pies with crust on top might need more delicate surgeries.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 03:55 PM (8avO+)

150 145 138 Die Hard advent calendar > Die Hard ornament.

https://amzn.to/4pwmPdS
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:53 PM (GBKbO)

WOW

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 03:55 PM (RuTUS)

151
Die Hard advent calendar > Die Hard ornament.

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Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:53 PM (GBKbO)


That video is hysterical.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:55 PM (Zz0t1)

152 Die Hard advent calendar > Die Hard ornament.

https://amzn.to/4pwmPdS
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:53 PM (GBKbO)

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I almost got one of those for my kid last year, but the reviews say it's pretty flimsy and falls apart.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 03:55 PM (DRSnL)

153
By the way, are the deportations (both self and ICE-assisted) supposed to be making any detectable difference? Maybe crime rates in some cities will inch down, but we all know there are entire California cities that are more than 50% illegal aliens. Or is that what these idle construction sites are supposedly about? "Congrats, idiots, I can't get workers to finish this building!"

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2025 03:55 PM (RfDQK)

154 Widmark was a decent Jim Bowie in The Alamo. Better than Laurence Harvey's Travis and certainly far better than Wayne's Crockett.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 03:55 PM (77rzZ)

155 117 The funniest scene with Dana Andrews in it is in Barbara Stanwyck's Ball of Fire, where Andrews tries to fight Gary Cooper. Andrews was a shorty, and Cooper, of course, quite tall. You can't see the disparity so much on screen, but just the idea makes me chuckle. - Bulg

Liked the nightclub scene, with Gene Krupa's band playing "Drum Boogie", and Stanwyck singing (or, more probably, lip-synching, the lyrics).

Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2025 03:56 PM (mADJX)

156 Piper, that recipe sounds delicious! As does Nova
Local's Green bean recipe in the precious thread (#253)

I love green bean casseroles but my family hates them. They don't like mushy veg. Fresh green beans baked might do the trick.

Posted by: LizLem at November 25, 2025 03:56 PM (gWBY1)

157 >>> Doge, like Trump, hasn't been able to do much of anything because there's some liberal f*cktard judge blocking EVERYTHING they try to do.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:44 PM (Zz0t1)
*******
💯
Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2025 03:50 PM (NpAcC)


If the right was anywhere near as organized as the left every time anything bad happens, anywhere, the bad thing would be blamed on not getting the change they wanted, and you would have the pictures of the judges and anyone that helped block it. They would isolate the opposition and then concentrate on it mercilessly. Make them the face of every hardship, their names synonymous with oppression.

But they don't.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 03:57 PM (3uBP9)

158 So how long before the Best Christmas Movie thread shows up?

Course, a lotta folks will get it wrong and say Die Hard. I feel sorry for those people.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 03:57 PM (77rzZ)

159
Die Hard advent calendar > Die Hard ornament.

https://amzn.to/4pwmPdS
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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Sigh, and to think Bruce Willis can't even get a chuckle out of it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2025 03:58 PM (RfDQK)

160 PLANK!!!!
Posted by: Ed, Edd and Eddy at November 25, 2025 03:42 PM (Zz0t1)

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I was playing a video game of my son's called Borderlands. It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that the planks you could make were actually Plank from Ed, Edd and Eddy.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 03:58 PM (DRSnL)

161 I don't think this country will be serious about cutting spending until forced to at the end of a bankruptcy/default gun.
......

Where is "Bitcoin fixes everything" guy?

Posted by: wth at November 25, 2025 03:58 PM (v0R5T)

162 153
By the way, are the deportations (both self and ICE-assisted) supposed to be making any detectable difference? Maybe crime rates in some cities will inch down, but we all know there are entire California cities that are more than 50% illegal aliens. Or is that what these idle construction sites are supposedly about? "Congrats, idiots, I can't get workers to finish this building!"

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2025 03:55 PM (RfDQK)

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It should be about 3 million total now, with net in-migration being almost 0 (legal immigration continues, but overall visa issuance is down).

It's my understanding that it's mostly centered in CA and TX.

And most of that is pre-OBBB ICE, the bill of which secured funding through 2028 at elevated levels for the agency.

Biden let in about 4 million a year. It looks like Trump will be getting rid of about 4 million in the first year (once we hit January 20, 2026). And things should accelerate, no matter what happens to control of Congress.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:58 PM (GBKbO)

163 Not even then. The government will never -- not ever -- cut spending in an significant way because nobody wants spending cut. Sure, in theory you'll find wide support for cutting budgets. But not our budgets. Someone else's budgets. Never ours.
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Yup.
There is no constituency for cutting spending. It's not even a plurality in the Republican Party.

The actual number of people who will accept their government programs being cut sit next to those who pay extra taxes.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 03:58 PM (T3zUV)

164 LizLem, I reposted your recipe for cream of mushroom soup! comment #126

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 03:58 PM (RuTUS)

165 Stacklands, not Borderlands.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 03:58 PM (DRSnL)

166 LOL garrett cruelty 2nd line in.
Posted by: banana Dream

I did not know that Garrett like disco.

I thought he was more of a rock 'n roll and fishing guy.

Posted by: Pepperidge Farms remembers at November 25, 2025 03:59 PM (vcOmj)

167 I love green bean casseroles but my family hates them. They don't like mushy veg. Fresh green beans baked might do the trick.

I HATE flaccid green beans. I poach them, dunk them in ice water, caramelize some shallots, and then saute them in olive oil to warm them up before serving . Toasted sliced almonds go on top.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2025 03:59 PM (Riz8t)

168 I was playing a video game of my son's called Borderlands. It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that the planks you could make were actually Plank from Ed, Edd and Eddy.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 03:58 PM (DRSnL)


LOL!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:59 PM (Zz0t1)

169 146 I dunno. Tommy Udo was one of the great villains. - IllTemperedCur.

I agree. Another thing about the movie, Kiss of Death: the elevator ride in the department store that the bad guys take as they desperately try to get out after they robbed the jewelry department was a great tension-builder.

Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2025 03:59 PM (mADJX)

170 Correction: blanch, not poach.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2025 03:59 PM (Riz8t)

171 Overall, though, I greatly appreciated the effort. I just think there’s a unitparty that doesn’t really want to address all the fraud.

Heard in the cloakroom of Congress:

"Musk said that they cut $240 million from the XYZ department that I have been making bank on. WHAT?? How was I not informed of that grift? I thought we were friends!"

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 04:00 PM (a4flb)

172 163 Yup.
There is no constituency for cutting spending. It's not even a plurality in the Republican Party.

The actual number of people who will accept their government programs being cut sit next to those who pay extra taxes.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 03:58 PM (T3zUV)

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However, there's a flip side to this.

There isn't much of a constituency for keeping individual spending elements either. Cutting $20 billion that benefits 50 people will have a constituency of 50 people against it, who will fight very hard to keep it. But, if the cutting happens anyway, no one but those 50 give a shit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 04:00 PM (GBKbO)

173 Prior to retirement, I worked for a large HR consulting firm and we were helping companies get rid of their retiree medical programs and replacing those plans with Obamacare options.

Posted by: Oglebay at November 25, 2025 04:00 PM (2ap+5)

174 Instead of DOGE being dead, I hope it is merely pining for the fjords ... and soon makes a full recovery.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 25, 2025 04:00 PM (HlyYF)

175 The actual number of people who will accept their government programs being cut sit next to those who pay extra taxes.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 03:58 PM (T3zUV)

Yup, can't even cut the blatant pay off of the Ethanol subsidies.... $3.2 billion last year for corn farmers.

Posted by: Bob, NSA at November 25, 2025 04:01 PM (mP0Kj)

176 Less healthy version:
Green Bean Casserole
1 Tablespoon + 1 teaspoon salt, divided
1 pound fresh green beans, rinsed, ends trimmed, and halved
2 Tablespoons unsalted butter
8 ounces sliced mushrooms
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 Tablespoons all-purpose flour
3/4 cup chicken or vegetable broth
1 and 1/4 cups half-and-half
Golden Farms Crispy Onions

Preheat oven to 450. Blanch the green beans in a large pot of boiling water with 1 tbs of salt. Boil 5 minutes, drain and dump into ice water.
For the
Over medium-high heat, melt the butter in a large 10- to 12-inch ovenproof skillet. Add the mushrooms, 1 teaspoon salt, and the pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the mushrooms begin to release some moisture-about 5 minutes. Add the garlic, stir, and cook for another 2 minutes. Sprinkle the flour on top and stir until combined. The flour will soak up all the moisture. Add the broth and simmer for 3 minutes. Reduce the heat to medium-low and add the half-and-half. Stirring occasionally, cook until the mixture is thick-about 10 minutes or maybe more if you prefer a thicker sauce.

TBC

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2025 04:01 PM (p4NUW)

177 Done avoiding working.

I've got shit to do.

L8rs all.

Enjoy!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 04:02 PM (Zz0t1)

178 I'm just here for Piper's Green Bean Casserole recipe.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 25, 2025 04:02 PM (PiwSw)

179 159
Die Hard advent calendar > Die Hard ornament.

https://amzn.to/4pwmPdS
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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Sigh, and to think Bruce Willis can't even get a chuckle out of it.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2025 03:58 PM (RfDQK)

I don't know. Do we know how much he can communicate now??

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 04:02 PM (RuTUS)

180 Yup, can't even cut the blatant pay off of the Ethanol subsidies.... $3.2 billion last year for corn farmers.

That won't happen until they take away Iowa's first caucus in the nation status.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2025 04:02 PM (Riz8t)

181 Ok. Apparently there is video from several years of a screaming and crying Aftyn Behn screaming and shouting and storming the Governors office :

https://tinyurl.com/ymknuctk

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 04:02 PM (looXz)

182 Only USAID seems to be the lone good victory, assuming that actually happened and it wasn't just moved under a different name and still going.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 25, 2025 04:02 PM (n5tGW)

183 You tell the future by looking at snow?
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 03:52 PM (77rzZ)

Why, yes. I can confidently predict that, if I get stuck, it won't be in my own driveway.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 04:02 PM (npFr7)

184 DOGE killed USAID, which was providing most of the funding for the Uniparty and the Left in the United States.

No small achievement.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 25, 2025 04:03 PM (xTIDn)

185 It's my understanding that it's mostly centered in CA and TX."

Si. It's becoming more and more obvious as well...

And it's good. People are noticing, and in a good way.

Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 04:03 PM (2fWsr)

186 However, there's a flip side to this.

There isn't much of a constituency for keeping individual spending elements either. Cutting $20 billion that benefits 50 people will have a constituency of 50 people against it, who will fight very hard to keep it. But, if the cutting happens anyway, no one but those 50 give a shit.
-------

I was hoping the 40+ day government shutdown would illustrate that point. All those days and the only concerns noted were law enforcement agencies, the military, social security, and SNAP and its copycats. What would our government spending look like if we kept all of those programs at the current level and cut everything else by half? Or cut everything else by two-thirds?

Posted by: Crusader at November 25, 2025 04:03 PM (TN0g+)

187 176 Continued…Remove from heat and add about a 1/2 cup of the onions, and all of the green beans. stir to combine (If you're not using an oven-safe skillet, or want to bake this in a casserole dish, transfer mixture to a greased 2-3-quart casserole dish.) Top with remaining onions and bake until bubbling around the edges, about 15 minutes. Remove from the oven and serve warm.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2025 04:03 PM (OoFl2)

188 184 DOGE killed USAID, which was providing most of the funding for the Uniparty and the Left in the United States.

No small achievement.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 25, 2025 04:03 PM (xTIDn)

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And Congress solidified it. Not nothing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 04:03 PM (GBKbO)

189 174 Instead of DOGE being dead, I hope it is merely pining for the fjords ... and soon makes a full recovery.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 25, 2025 04:00 PM (HlyYF)

https://x.com/DOGE

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 04:03 PM (RuTUS)

190 186 I was hoping the 40+ day government shutdown would illustrate that point. All those days and the only concerns noted were law enforcement agencies, the military, social security, and SNAP and its copycats. What would our government spending look like if we kept all of those programs at the current level and cut everything else by half? Or cut everything else by two-thirds?

Posted by: Crusader at November 25, 2025 04:03 PM (TN0g+)

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It was the least news worthy shutdown in decades because Trump made it hurt the leftist power centers.

So, it hurt NOVA but...not a whole lot else.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 04:04 PM (GBKbO)

191 Just make your own pumpkin pie. It takes very little effort, especially if you buy a premade crust, and then you know what ingredients are actually going into it. Pre-made ones are full of junk.

Posted by: brak at November 25, 2025 04:05 PM (jGJov)

192 > saved taxpayers a tiny chunk of change

These assholes don't even know any regular people, do they?

I assure them that there are plenty of Americans for whom $1,329 is not "a tiny chunk of change".

That's a rent check in many areas of the country. Or several months worth of food. Or...


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 25, 2025 04:05 PM (IG3/x)

193 Only USAID seems to be the lone good victory, assuming that actually happened and it wasn't just moved under a different name and still going.

No, the money went away, amid much screaming.

The funniest thing yet to happen in Trump's second term was the DOGE blocked disbursements of USAID funds, and a week later Politico couldn't make payroll.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 25, 2025 04:05 PM (xTIDn)

194 Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 03:57 PM (77rzZ)

I only saw Die Hard for the first time about two years ago. People on the board made fun of me. My favorite part was Alan Rickman because I think he was an exceptional actor .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 04:05 PM (looXz)

195 If you really want to be depressed, think about the fact that there will soon be a Congress that will look at the DOGE cuts as "savings" to spend.

Like the way a woman says she saved $50 dollars by buying a handbag for $500 because it was marked down $50.

"But I saved $50!"
"No, you spent $500."
[confused blinking]
"But I saved $50!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 04:05 PM (T3zUV)

196 We should end all subsidies on the ACA completely, not just the temporary COVID ones, so that poor people can choose to pay $10,000 per month for shitty insurance or treating Emergency rooms like doctors' offices.

Just like we have 2 Tier "Justice" we can have 2 Tier "Healthcare" where the free loaders can draw straws as to who can see Mac The Quack who got his medical license the same way illegal aliens got their CDLs.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 04:06 PM (a4flb)

197 Got 3 more years, so start up DOGE again

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 04:06 PM (+qU29)

198 With my kids' desire for "more" this Thanksgiving, I had to go find the "sweet" recipe for my sweet potatoes (they have been SO cheap this year). For anyone who needs to make a sweet potato casserole, but doesn't want sickly sweet, you can make a nice casserole with mashed sweet potatoes with an oat crumble (with peanuts or pecans or neither - I do peanuts again to add some more crunch to Thanksgiving over and above my green beans). Recipes abound on line.

Maple syrup goes into the potatoes, and you control the amount of sugar in the crumble. And salt and warming spices are your friend.

And it's 100% make ahead...just bake the day. I'd post a technique, but this one definitely has a lot of swaps if you do dairy or don't...

So keep the cran tart and the sweet potatoes sweet, but not cloying...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2025 04:06 PM (tOcjL)

199 Just make your own pumpkin pie. "

I do. Here's how:

1. Drive to Costco
2. Buy biga** pie
3. Drive home
4. Eat pie...

Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 04:06 PM (2fWsr)

200
I don't know. Do we know how much he can communicate now??
Posted by: m

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He has the kind of dementia that destroys your ability to so much as recognize family anymore at a certain point. His wife says *she* still "feels a connection," for what it's worth.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2025 04:06 PM (RfDQK)

201 Where is USAID?
Where is VOA and NPR and PBS?
Where is DOE?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 04:06 PM (X1/SD)

202 189 174 Instead of DOGE being dead, I hope it is merely pining for the fjords ... and soon makes a full recovery.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 25, 2025 04:00 PM

https://x.com/DOGE

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 04:03 PM

Fake news? From Reuters? Who could even imagine such a thing?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 25, 2025 04:07 PM (HlyYF)

203 200
I don't know. Do we know how much he can communicate now??
Posted by: m

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He has the kind of dementia that destroys your ability to so much as recognize family anymore at a certain point. His wife says *she* still "feels a connection," for what it's worth.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2025 04:06 PM (RfDQK)

oh
thanks

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 04:07 PM (RuTUS)

204 That's a rent check in many areas of the country. Or several months worth of food. Or...

Springfield Prodigy?
Kimber LW?

Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 04:07 PM (2fWsr)

205 201 Where is USAID?
Where is VOA and NPR and PBS?
Where is DOE?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 04:06 PM (X1/SD)

Exactly. USAID's demise alone made DOGE totally worth it. Musk's disappointment with DC is fully justified, and as Ace said until our back is against the wall, there is no groundswell of support to reduce the size of gov't.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 25, 2025 04:08 PM (0CU3H)

206 197 Got 3 more years, so start up DOGE again
Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 04:06 PM (+qU29)

DOGE is still active!

https://x.com/DOGE

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 04:08 PM (RuTUS)

207 I consider DOGE to be a partial success

you will have more surveillance over shadowy funding that nobody seemed to be looking at years ago. Nobody was even asking the question.. This was even completely ignored in Trump’s first term.

If Kamala Harris had won, I doubt we’d even know about the $20 billion. They were going to hand Stacey Abrams.

I see that stuff being way harder in the future, but I guess I’m an eternal optimist

Posted by: Maroon at November 25, 2025 04:08 PM (0Hj+P)

208 I assure them that there are plenty of Americans for whom $1,329 is not "a tiny chunk of change".


We already played this stupid game in the Covid "Stimmy Chex" - money went to scammers in Nigeria, 80" TVs from China, and a sharp spike in tattoos and fentanyl over doses.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 04:08 PM (a4flb)

209 > week later Politico couldn't make payroll.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 25, 2025 04:05 PM (xTIDn)

As I recall the CuckShed was in serious trouble as well.

But Bill Kristol is a staunch conservative you guys!

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 25, 2025 04:08 PM (IG3/x)

210 The biggest travesty is putting green beans in a casserole.

That is so wrong.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 04:09 PM (X1/SD)

211 205 Exactly. USAID's demise alone made DOGE totally worth it. Musk's disappointment with DC is fully justified, and as Ace said until our back is against the wall, there is no groundswell of support to reduce the size of gov't.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 25, 2025 04:08 PM (0CU3H)

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Forcing Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, along with all the other welfare programs, to actually follow the law about eligibility will be a surprising savings.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 04:09 PM (GBKbO)

212
Correction: blanch, not poach.
Posted by: Archimedes

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Oops, make that bleach, not blanch. I hope it's not too late, hahah!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2025 04:09 PM (RfDQK)

213 The funniest thing yet to happen in Trump's second term was the DOGE blocked disbursements of USAID funds, and a week later Politico couldn't make payroll.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 25, 2025 04:05 PM (xTIDn)

I'd say it's more terrifying than funny. Domestic media sources being literal Deep State ops should scare the shit out of anyone with two synapses to rub together.

Posted by: See Operation Mockingbird at November 25, 2025 04:09 PM (TbWk/)

214 > We already played this stupid game in the Covid "Stimmy Chex" - money went to scammers in Nigeria, 80" TVs from China, and a sharp spike in tattoos and fentanyl over doses.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 04:08 PM (a4flb)

As opposed to giving it to domestic enemies of the Constitution of the United States?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 25, 2025 04:10 PM (IG3/x)

215 210 The biggest travesty is putting green beans in a casserole.

That is so wrong.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 04:09 PM (X1/SD)

If you drown them in Campbell's cream of mushroom soup, you almost won't even notice they're there!

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 04:10 PM (RuTUS)

216 He has the kind of dementia that destroys your ability to so much as recognize family anymore at a certain point. His wife says *she* still "feels a connection," for what it's worth."

Sounds like Dad. He's in rough shape, and doesn't recognize much...

Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 04:10 PM (2fWsr)

217 Richard Widmark peaked with Tommy Udo

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 04:10 PM (bfwj/)

218 I consider DOGE to be a partial success

It would be a better success if the list of people who received illicit funding and the amount they swindled was handing over to old-school Mafia collection agents, each issued a Double O license to collect - BAMN

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 04:10 PM (a4flb)

219 >>> And DOGE's $214 billion in savings, whether that figure is even accurate or not, amounts to a drop of water in an ocean.



yeah it would be better to not even bother, and just print more money

Posted by: brak at November 25, 2025 04:11 PM (jGJov)

220 > The biggest travesty is putting green beans in a casserole.

That is so wrong.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 04:09 PM (X1/SD)

I'd take that a little farther. The travesty is putting green beans in anything.

I can't believe people actually eat those.

Brussels sprouts are worse, but not by much.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 25, 2025 04:11 PM (IG3/x)

221 The biggest travesty is putting green beans in a casserole.

That is so wrong.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 04:09 PM (X1/SD)

If you drown them in Campbell's cream of mushroom soup, you almost won't even notice they're there!
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The mushrooms in the cream of mushroom soup are bio-engineered.

Posted by: Crusader at November 25, 2025 04:11 PM (TN0g+)

222 Watching LeMans with Steve McQueen

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 04:11 PM (+qU29)

223 I actually think Elon Musk could’ve delivered close to the cost savings he was promising.

You’ll remember the chorus from the media screeching “who’s really president right now, Elon or Trump!” Came to a fever pitch as musk was taking scalps

I think that stuff got under Trumps skin and it led to musk’s departure

Posted by: Maroon at November 25, 2025 04:11 PM (0Hj+P)

224 And if you really want to do the original recipe, here is condensed cream of mushroom soup recipe to use.

1 1/3 cup chicken or vegetable broth
2/3 cup whole milk
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup fresh mushrooms finely-chopped
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
Add chicken or vegetable stock to a medium saucepan and bring to boil over medium high heat.

In a separate bowl, mix together the milk and flour until flour is dissolved.

Slowly pour the milk mixture into the boiling broth and whisk to completely combine.

Stir in the mushrooms and spices.
Reduce the heat to medium and let it come to low boil, stirring constantly, for 3 minutes or until thickened.

Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 7 days if not using right away

Be sure to dilute it with chicken or vegetable broth if you'd like to eat it as a soup as this is condensed.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2025 04:12 PM (OoFl2)

225
I HATE flaccid green beans. I poach them, dunk them in ice water, caramelize some shallots, and then saute them in olive oil to warm them up before serving . Toasted sliced almonds go on top.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2025 03:59 PM (Riz8t)

This is pretty much my green bean method except I cook them in butter and sprinkle with freshly grated Parmesan and maybe some balsamic and flaky salt.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2025 04:12 PM (AZf41)

226 If you drown them in Campbell's cream of mushroom soup, you almost won't even notice they're there!
Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 04:10 PM (RuTUS)
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There is so much here, I don't know where to begin.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 04:12 PM (X1/SD)

227 223 I think that stuff got under Trumps skin and it led to musk’s departure

Posted by: Maroon at November 25, 2025 04:11 PM (0Hj+P)

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Musk left at the end of his scheduled time as a special government employee. I think it was 120 days. He served that time and no more. That's all.

The spat happened afterwards.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 04:12 PM (GBKbO)

228 I want your monies and I wants them now!

Posted by: democrat goblin at November 25, 2025 04:13 PM (R/m4+)

229 I have been conditioned to be cynical by many years of govt saying we cut this or that only to find out that it was being funded a different way 10 years later.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 25, 2025 04:13 PM (n5tGW)

230 If you drown them in Campbell's cream of mushroom soup, you almost won't even notice they're there!"

Is that the "s*** for poor people" and "GMO" version?

Heh.

Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 04:13 PM (2fWsr)

231 I HATE flaccid green beans. I poach them, dunk them in ice water, caramelize some shallots, and then saute them in olive oil to warm them up before serving . Toasted sliced almonds go on top.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2025 03:59 PM (Riz8t)

This is pretty much my green bean method except I cook them in butter and sprinkle with freshly grated Parmesan and maybe some balsamic and flaky salt.
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2025 04:12 PM (AZf41)
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Thank you. "Tender-crisp"!

Its a thing!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 04:13 PM (X1/SD)

232 I only saw Die Hard for the first time about two years ago. People on the board made fun of me. My favorite part was Alan Rickman because I think he was an exceptional actor .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 04:05 PM

My wife is a huge Rickman fan.

Compare his roles in Die Hard, Harry Potter, Sense and Sensibility, and Galaxy Quest. (She enjoys all of those movies.)

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 25, 2025 04:13 PM (HlyYF)

233 >>> Domestic media sources being literal Deep State ops should scare the shit out of anyone with two synapses to rub together.
Posted by: See Operation Mockingbird at November 25, 2025 04:09 PM (TbWk/)


Why's that?

Posted by: BBC at November 25, 2025 04:13 PM (3uBP9)

234 What's needed to deal with SSN fraud, and other crimes that impact citizens is a way to "privatize" the punishment. Make it requirement that any violation of black-letter law that causes financial harm, physical harm or death to a family member must be addressed in a meaningful way by the responsible law enforcement within one calendar year, or the aggrieved party(s) have lawful cause to hunt down and kill the perps.

In other words, if law enforcement shits the bed, after one year, you can become a lawful bounty hunter.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 04:13 PM (npFr7)

235 226 If you drown them in Campbell's cream of mushroom soup, you almost won't even notice they're there!
Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 04:10 PM (RuTUS)
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There is so much here, I don't know where to begin.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 04:12 PM (X1/SD)

Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 04:14 PM (RuTUS)

236 Wasn't Demented Joe supposed to cure cancer?

Posted by: torabora at November 25, 2025 04:14 PM (KtOUo)

237 Trump is fundamentally about what is possible while Elon is about what is impossible.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 04:14 PM (X1/SD)

238 Compare his roles in Die Hard, Harry Potter, Sense and Sensibility, and Galaxy Quest. (She enjoys all of those movies.)
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 25, 2025 04:13 PM (HlyYF)

Add in Robin Hood (and call off Christmas!)...

and of course... Quigley Down Under...

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 04:14 PM (mP0Kj)

239 I can take broccoli in small portions IF there's a good steak or pork chop on the plate with it. But putting broccoli INSIDE a dish instantly overpowers the dish like no other vegetable. Bad idea!

Posted by: Crusader at November 25, 2025 04:15 PM (TN0g+)

240 199 Just make your own pumpkin pie. "

I do. Here's how:

1. Drive to Costco
2. Buy biga** pie
3. Drive home
4. Eat pie...
Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 04:06 PM

So simple, that even an Idiot like me could do it!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 25, 2025 04:15 PM (HlyYF)

241 234 What's needed to deal with SSN fraud, and other crimes that impact citizens is a way to "privatize" the punishment. Make it requirement that any violation of black-letter law that causes financial harm, physical harm or death to a family member must be addressed in a meaningful way by the responsible law enforcement within one calendar year, or the aggrieved party(s) have lawful cause to hunt down and kill the perps.

In other words, if law enforcement shits the bed, after one year, you can become a lawful bounty hunter.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 04:13 PM (npFr7)

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Ending qualified immunity for government employees, save law enforcement (life and death decisions merit some level of immunity) would be...interesting.

Bureaucrat #3,452 signed up an illegal for SNAP? Sue Bureaucrat #3,452 personally to recover the costs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 04:15 PM (GBKbO)

242
Thank you. "Tender-crisp"!

Its a thing!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 04:13 PM (X1/SD)

That's the perfect description, yes this is the way.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2025 04:15 PM (AZf41)

243 " Watching LeMans with Steve McQueen
Posted by: Skip"

Steve McQueen is at your house??


But seriously, I have it on in the shop too. The greatest racing movie ever. Except for the talking parts.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 04:15 PM (vFG9F)

244 216 He has the kind of dementia that destroys your ability to so much as recognize family anymore at a certain point. His wife says *she* still "feels a connection," for what it's worth."

Sounds like Dad. He's in rough shape, and doesn't recognize much...
Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 04:10 PM (2fWsr)

Wish it could be fixed.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 04:16 PM (RuTUS)

245 Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 25, 2025 04:13 PM (HlyYF)

Yes, he was a very versatile actor and nice looking too- but maybe your wife doesn't mention that . 😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 04:16 PM (rZCVI)

246 and of course... Quigley Frumunda.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 25, 2025 04:16 PM (/+ooq)

247 Okay, after madly typing away, I can read comments. 😂

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2025 04:16 PM (OoFl2)

248 Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃
Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 04:14 PM (RuTUS)
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Heh same to you my friend.

P.S. our casserole is already made and we have already had our annual argument about it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 04:16 PM (X1/SD)

249 The best pumpkin pie is Costco pumpkin pie.

The best pumpkin pie is no pumpkin pie.

Garbage.

Posted by: Hair Pie at November 25, 2025 04:16 PM (R/m4+)

250 Rickman was a great actor. In Love Actually, a movie where I hoped just about everyone would die, Rickman was excellent

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 04:17 PM (bfwj/)

251 217 Richard Widmark peaked with Tommy Udo, - Smell the Glove

I don't think so. He was great as the ambitious wrestling promoter in Night and the City (1950). I liked him a lot in the western, Warlock (1959), too. And for that matter, he was outstanding in Pickup on South Street (1953).

Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2025 04:17 PM (mADJX)

252 Ending qualified immunity for government employees, save law enforcement (life and death decisions merit some level of immunity) would be...interesting.

Bureaucrat #3,452 signed up an illegal for SNAP? Sue Bureaucrat #3,452 personally to recover the costs.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 04:15 PM (GBKbO)

Absolutely. End qualified immunity for judges and prosecutors, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 04:17 PM (npFr7)

253 Forcing Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, along with all the other welfare programs, to actually follow the law about eligibility will be a surprising savings.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Politicians who don't normally do anything other than maybe get.a sore thumb firing off tough guy posts on social media will actually get off their fat asses and break a sweat for the first time in their miserable lives to make sure eligibility rules aren't enforced. I hate them.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 25, 2025 04:17 PM (Dv3i1)

254 241 234 What's needed to deal with SSN fraud, and other crimes that impact citizens is a way to "privatize" the punishment. Make it requirement that any violation of black-letter law that causes financial harm, physical harm or death to a family member must be addressed in a meaningful way by the responsible law enforcement within one calendar year, or the aggrieved party(s) have lawful cause to hunt down and kill the perps.

In other words, if law enforcement shits the bed, after one year, you can become a lawful bounty hunter.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Britain has or did have private prosecutions for criminal offenses.

Posted by: whig at November 25, 2025 04:18 PM (WDjG6)

255 Trump is fundamentally about what is possible while Elon is about what is impossible.

Posted by: San Franpsycho

I might say "currently possible" and "potentially possible", but it's just a quibble in context.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at November 25, 2025 04:18 PM (OUMaO)

256 The best pumpkin pie is pumpkin pudding.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 04:18 PM (OWovX)

257 Bureaucrat #3,452 identifies as a non-binary black member of the LGBTQX community with claws and a nose ring, so hands off Bub.

Posted by: wth at November 25, 2025 04:18 PM (v0R5T)

258 Exactly. USAID's demise alone made DOGE totally worth it. Musk's disappointment with DC is fully justified, and as Ace said until our back is against the wall, there is no groundswell of support to reduce the size of gov't.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 25, 2025 04:08 PM (0CU3H)

What makes you think USAID is gone. It's now under the State Department. They'll go the way of ACORN. Name change and split it into a million little orgs.

Posted by: resist_we_much at November 25, 2025 04:19 PM (cpys8)

259 Wasn't Demented Joe supposed to cure cancer?

Either that was his screwed up way of telling us that he was diagnosed with cancer, or he botched up the intel about the mRNA "vaccines".


mRNA was believed to be the mechanism to deliver targeted cancer treatment. the problem is that mRNA needed to be tested on large groups of people to discover its benefits and defects.

The rest is history

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 04:19 PM (a4flb)

260 249 The best pumpkin pie is Costco pumpkin pie.

The best pumpkin pie is no pumpkin pie.

Garbage.
Posted by: Hair Pie at November 25, 2025 04:16 PM (R/m4+)

I have grown to like pumpkin pie...but the best pumpkin pie is pumpkin pie ice cream pie - a pint of Haagen Daz vanilla ice cream swirled with real caramel and 1/3-1/2 the can of pumpkin pie mix and dropped in a graham cracker crust and frozen. To serve, let sit at room temp 10 minutes, slice and plate with a zig zag drizzle of caramel and a Cheesecake Factory dollop of real whipped cream. Serve with decaf coffee. People fawned over this dessert when I could make and eat it...and it takes 5 minutes.

Now, I have to dairy free it, so it's still very good, but not the ambrosia it used to be...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2025 04:20 PM (tOcjL)

261 leftists will breathlessly tell you Fox News is Reich wing.

Posted by: torabora at November 25, 2025 04:20 PM (KtOUo)

262 213 The funniest thing yet to happen in Trump's second term was the DOGE blocked disbursements of USAID funds, and a week later Politico couldn't make payroll.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
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Politico is owned by Axel Springer of Germany who also owns a lot of college textbook providers and academic journals. Time to apply anti trust to them.

Posted by: whig at November 25, 2025 04:20 PM (WDjG6)

263 I wonder how much it would cost to provide Medicare for all if we kept the current premium structure. The Part B premium would be $200 to $700 per month per covered individual. A family of 4 with family income of $200,000 would pay about $2,100 per month. We could raise the HI portion of FICA as employers and employees wouldn't need to buy coverage any more.

Posted by: Oglebay at November 25, 2025 04:20 PM (2ap+5)

264 Not sure I can do TJM's top 10 of all time, but top 10 sports movies would be possible

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 04:20 PM (+qU29)

265 What makes you think USAID is gone. It's now under the State Department. They'll go the way of ACORN. Name change and split it into a million little orgs.

Given the suicidal nature of the average American, Gavin Newsom will be telling the Secretary of State in 2028 which friends of his needs billions in "State Aid"

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 04:20 PM (a4flb)

266 264 Not sure I can do TJM's top 10 of all time, but top 10 sports movies would be possible

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 04:20 PM (+qU29)

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Moneyball.

A thousand feet of crap.

The Replacements.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 04:21 PM (GBKbO)

267 "In Love Actually, a movie where I hoped just about everyone would die,"

That made me laugh. Thanks

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 04:21 PM (rZCVI)

268 153 By the way, are the deportations (both self and ICE-assisted) supposed to be making any detectable difference?

could be a coincidence, but i've noticed that my neighborhood here in commiefornia seems to be much emptier than it was before the deportations started.

Posted by: anachronda at November 25, 2025 04:21 PM (edU/H)

269 >>> Trump is fundamentally about what is possible while Elon is about what is impossible.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 04:14 PM (X1/SD)


They should have let Musk work his magic incrementally changing things by launching various under performing government groups up into low orbit, see how they reenter before splashdown and explosion. Keep doing that hundreds of times throughout the government until you perfect everything, or completely exhaust your supply of government. You know, which ever comes first.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 04:22 PM (3uBP9)

270 268 153 By the way, are the deportations (both self and ICE-assisted) supposed to be making any detectable difference?

could be a coincidence, but i've noticed that my neighborhood here in commiefornia seems to be much emptier than it was before the deportations started.

Posted by: anachronda at November 25, 2025 04:21 PM (edU/H)

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"Authentic Los Angeles needs to come back. I feel too safe going to work. I don't fear that I'm going to get murdered by stray gunfire anymore. The character of Los Angeles is gone, and I want it back!"
-Hollywood starlet, 2027

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 04:22 PM (GBKbO)

271 Politicians who don't normally do anything other than maybe get.a sore thumb firing off tough guy posts on social media will actually get off their fat asses and break a sweat for the first time in their miserable lives to make sure eligibility rules aren't enforced. I hate them.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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Most of them have staff to do those social media posts so the pols have plausible deniability plus someone to fire if a post goes over badly.

We might have a better political class if people were drafted to serve like jury duty as legislators for a set term instead of increasingly fraudulent and rigged elections.

Posted by: whig at November 25, 2025 04:22 PM (WDjG6)

272 I wonder how much it would cost to provide Medicare for all if we kept the current premium structure.

Because by handing over ALL medical financing to the Left is a great way to end up in ovens?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 04:22 PM (a4flb)

273 245 Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 25, 2025 04:13 PM

Yes, he was a very versatile actor and nice looking too- but maybe your wife doesn't mention that . 😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 04:16 PM

When we watch Pride and Prejudice, she always notes that Colin Firth is very handsome.

A few minutes later she usually suffers a few pangs of guilt and says, "But I think Colin Firth looks like you."

In our marriage, that is know as going for the "save".

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 25, 2025 04:23 PM (HlyYF)

274 Because by handing over ALL medical financing to the Left is a great way to end up in ovens?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 04:22 PM (a4flb)

sure, but we would win the 2026 mid-terms in a landslide

Posted by: Oglebay at November 25, 2025 04:24 PM (2ap+5)

275 Ending qualified immunity for government employees, save law enforcement (life and death decisions merit some level of immunity) would be...interesting.

Bureaucrat #3,452 signed up an illegal for SNAP? Sue Bureaucrat #3,452 personally to recover the costs.
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Every single state employee and state official involved in issuing CDLs to illegals that caused death or injury should be facing civil and criminal charges.

Posted by: Crusader at November 25, 2025 04:25 PM (TN0g+)

276 f you drown them in Campbell's cream of mushroom soup, you almost won't even notice they're there!

Interestingly, if you drown them in dog feces, you probably won't notice them then as well. Come to think of it, that's just the same thing. Never mind.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2025 04:25 PM (Riz8t)

277 could be a coincidence, but i've noticed that my neighborhood here in commiefornia seems to be much emptier than it was before the deportations started.

Posted by: anachronda

Deportation effects are going to be lumpy. California has embedded a whole long term class of illegals sucking at the public teat, voting, and doing other shit not permitted in other states.

So, one will see more immediate effects in places where illegals are not a very large percentage of the population and ICE can work without local and state government interference. And without interference from the local population of legals that simp for illegals by doing shit like ramming ICE vehicles etc.

Posted by: whig at November 25, 2025 04:26 PM (WDjG6)

278 So we're not getting The Museum of the Deep State....

Posted by: torabora at November 25, 2025 04:26 PM (KtOUo)

279 My kids actually liked mushy green beans.

For Idiot level cooking when you are out of fresh veggies:

Dump two cans of green beans in a sauce pan.

Heat up beans, and then melt in a 1/3rd of a stick of butter.

Crunch up a big handful of Ritz crackers.

Stir the concoction and then serve to rugrats. They will then eat all of their veggies.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 25, 2025 04:29 PM (HlyYF)

280 Not sure I can do TJM's top 10 of all time, but top 10 sports movies would be possible
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I'd enjoy a topic like that. The problem with most sports movies is that the director too often didn't play sports at a serious or even semi-serious level, and thus doesn't know how to stage the sports scenes. So you end up with two grown up men in awesome shape throwing a baseball back and forth to each other....5 feet apart...naturally (?!)...because afterall we have to film the DIALOGUE! Its ludicrous, because 10 year old boys don't play catch 5 feet apart for more than a single throw--they're at 50 feet in a matter of 60 seconds!

Posted by: Crusader at November 25, 2025 04:29 PM (TN0g+)

281 crazy Nuzzi NOOD

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 25, 2025 04:30 PM (HlyYF)

282 Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is the best Pride and Prejudice.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 04:30 PM (3uBP9)

283 Well, if $214 billion is a drop, then maybe we should start cutting programs. Like welfare. And Education. And everything else not Constitutional.

Posted by: GWB at November 25, 2025 04:47 PM (0AclP)

284 The M.S. Media Bottom Feeders and Sewer Dwellers were Jubilant over Trumps False Conviction and the Kangaroo Court then wonder why we don't trust them anymore

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at November 25, 2025 06:35 PM (wGqjj)

Trump Moves to Designate Some Chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood As Terrorist Organizations

As I've mentioned several times: Obama literally had the Muslim Brotherhood in the room as the US military formulated its terrorist-identification policies. They got a veto as to whether intelligence officers could treat certain beliefs as cause to suspect someone as terrorists.

Trump isn't Obama.

President Trump on Monday called for the U.S. to weigh labeling some Middle Eastern affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist groups, taking aim at the controversial Islamist movement.

In an executive order, the president directed his administration to consider whether to designate Muslim Brotherhood chapters in Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan or elsewhere as foreign terrorist organizations. He gave Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent 30 days to submit a report, and 45 days after that to take action.

The order claimed the three countries' Muslim Brotherhood affiliates "engage in or facilitate and support violence and destabilization campaigns."

It accused the military wing of the Muslim Brotherhood's Lebanese chapter of helping launch rockets at Israel after the terrorist attack on Oct. 7, 2023, and alleged a leader of the Egyptian chapter "encouraged violent attacks against U.S. partners" after the attack.

The White House also said members of the Jordanian chapter have "long provided material support to the militant wing of Hamas," itself a Muslim Brotherhood offshoot and a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization.

If the groups are designated as foreign terrorist organizations, it would become illegal under U.S. law to knowingly provide funding or other material support to them. The designation can also lead to travel bans against members or the freezing of funds held in U.S. banks.


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Some Muslim Brotherhood leaders in Egypt and elsewhere have renounced violence. But the group has long been controversial, with critics -- including U.S. allies -- saying some affiliated groups have engaged in violence or espoused extremist views. Egypt's military government formally banned the Muslim Brotherhood in 2013, and Jordan banned the group earlier this year.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization last week -- and CAIR, too.


Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday designated the Muslim Brotherhood and the Muslim civil rights group Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as "foreign terrorist" and "transnational criminal" organizations.

Why it matters: The designation authorizes "heightened enforcement" against both organizations and their affiliates and bans them from buying or acquiring land in Texas, according to Abbott's office.

It also authorizes Attorney General Ken Paxton to sue the organizations to shut them down, Abbott said on X.

Driving the news: In a proclamation, Abbott accused the Muslim Brotherhood of "engaging in terrorism or attempting to destabilize countries" and calls CAIR its "successor organization."

The order invokes the Texas Penal Code and Property Code, which allow the governor to classify organizations that "threaten the security of this state."

The Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Egypt in 1928, is a transnational Islamist group with offshoots including Hamas.

You know that federal election law forbids the use of churches and synagogues for political purposes? So-called c3 charities do not pay taxes, but the catch is that c3 charities cannot engage in partisan activity.

This law has long been ignored as far as black churches go.

Surprise surprise -- Islamic mosques are immune from the law, too.

Amy Mek
@AmyMek

🟥 WARNING - THIS IS HOW WE LOSE AMERICA

CAIR Now Has a Muslim Super PAC to Capture U.S. Elections Using Mosques as the engine -- and they have already begun.

CAIR Leader Nihad Awad can be seen in EPIC Mosque in Texas, teaching Muslims how to use tax-exempt mosques, a CAIR c4, and a new Muslim SUPER PAC to make or break elections....

This is the exact weapon needed to install candidates like Zohran Mamdani across America, to which their Super PAC donated!

He openly instructs them to:

-- Use the MOSQUE (tax-deductible) to build the voter bloc
-- Use the CAIR C4 to lobby, draft, and fight laws -- Use PACs to fund candidates
-- Use the SUPER PAC for unlimited money to flip races

His words, not mine:

"These are the organizations that make or break races... There is a Muslim Super PAC today."

So instead of being banned over its documented terror-tie history, CAIR now sits on top of the machinery used to make or break elections.

This is the missing piece -- the power key.

While CAIR preaches takeover plans from pulpits and trains 100,000 future operatives...

📌 This is not influence -- it is an organized political seizure project running off tax-exempt religious infrastructure.

J. Michael Waller calls this executive order "solid" in terms of both what it does and the legal arguments advanced to support the order.

Posted by: Ace at 02:20 PM




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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 02:24 PM (Zz0t1)

2 Name islham to the terrorist list and we'll be getting somewhere.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 02:25 PM (Zz0t1)

3 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 25, 2025 02:26 PM (NcvvS)

4 Autobots, roll out!
-Abbott

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 02:26 PM (zZu0s)

5 Hola

Posted by: Dick the Bruiser at November 25, 2025 02:26 PM (5IH8V)

6 Ah, Sponge nooded FIRST!

Posted by: Nazdar at November 25, 2025 02:27 PM (NcvvS)

7 They outreproduce us by - what- 3 to 1?.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 02:27 PM (PCK5/)

8
Wait, CAIR has a super PAC? What is CAIR's legal status?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2025 02:27 PM (RfDQK)

9 Good move, but why just "some" Muslim Brotherhood groups? Why not all of them? I'm not aware of any MB group or affiliate that's into collecting for the Red Cross. They're all head-chopping goat-lickers.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 02:28 PM (iFTx/)

10 If the groups are designated as foreign terrorist organizations, it would become illegal under U.S. law

Ha! We're safe!

Posted by: The Muslim Brotherhood of the USA at November 25, 2025 02:28 PM (ittVa)

11 Some chapters? Are we to understand there are good ones that just wear funny hats and drive around in tiny cars and only occasionally jihad a little and we're leaving those alone?

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 02:29 PM (3uBP9)

12 "Some chapters?" Why can't he just designate the whole thing a terrorist org?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 02:29 PM (77rzZ)

13 1 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 02:24 PM (Zz0t1)

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Yeah baby.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 02:29 PM (DRSnL)

14 *clears throat*

Ok. Let's move on to the topic of green bean casseroles.

Posted by: Food threadist at November 25, 2025 02:29 PM (tkslY)

15 Several decades overdue, and unfortunately will be undone the moment we get a Democrat administration. But I'm glad he's doing it anyway.

Posted by: It's turbocancer in the body politic at November 25, 2025 02:29 PM (TbWk/)

16 11 Some chapters? Are we to understand there are good ones that just wear funny hats and drive around in tiny cars and only occasionally jihad a little and we're leaving those alone?
Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 02:29 PM (3uBP9)

It is all merely words, which have declined in meaning.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 02:30 PM (PCK5/)

17 If we don't look at the UK and take heed of what the muzzie mission is, we're completely fucked.

Posted by: ballistic at November 25, 2025 02:30 PM (3BwY8)

18 Ok. Let's move on to the topic of green bean casseroles.
Posted by: Food threadist

That's my cooking assignment for T-day. So simple even I can't screw it up.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 02:30 PM (77rzZ)

19 "So-called c3 charities do not pay taxes, but the catch is that c3 charities cannot engage in partisan activity."

I'd nuke this corrupt loophole for all c3 charities. Yea, it will hurt some of "our" groups, but it will shut down a lot more leftwing partisan political activists. Overall, it would be a big win for us.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 02:31 PM (iFTx/)

20 Mentioned in last thread...

If SNAP is changed to force everyone currently on it to reapply...and then they also enforce the work component for everyone not on disability... that will be huge.

Posted by: LizLem at November 25, 2025 02:31 PM (gWBY1)

21 Can we all agree the fried onion rings on top are mandatory?

Posted by: Be reasonable at November 25, 2025 02:31 PM (tkslY)

22 Enforce the prohibition of c3 charities engaging in partisan activity.

Posted by: Crusader at November 25, 2025 02:32 PM (TN0g+)

23 14 *clears throat*

Ok. Let's move on to the topic of green bean casseroles.
Posted by: Food threadist at November 25, 2025 02:29 PM (tkslY)

Canned green beans, French’s fried onions. Canned mushroom soup, add salt pepper and nutmeg. Bake.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 02:32 PM (PCK5/)

24 "Muslim Brotherhood" sounds like gay porn made in Gaza

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 02:32 PM (iFTx/)

25 But George W Bush told me Islam was a religion of peace.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 02:32 PM (bfwj/)

26 Could it be that the real Hitler is Barack Obama?

Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2025 02:32 PM (s0JqF)

27 Kepp jumping to the downstairs thread

It would be safe to lump them all together

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 02:32 PM (+qU29)

28 While looking the other way at this open, known tax fraud, the priority of the IRS is auditing some schlep who failed to report $601 in income.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 02:32 PM (T3zUV)

29 Trump is being criticized by some supporters of Israel for exempting Turkey and Qatar from any sanctions against the Muslim Brotherhood, since both of those countries are obviously sympathetic to them and have supported the Brotherhood previously.

BUT I understand the necessity of it - Trump has worked hard to establish good diplomatic relations with both of those countries, and even if you hate them and can read chapter and verse on how devious and untrustworthy they are, they still are both very powerful in the Middle East and have to be on board for any complex negotiations to succeed. That's just one of those hard real-politik facts, and another is that means you can't go and hit anyone inside their borders that they're giving protection to, no matter how much you hate them.

So it's a moot point as to whether he sanction MB members inside those two countries, we can't touch them there. That's ok, that leaves the rest of the world where we can do whatever we want to them. The quid pro quo is that if we leave Turkey and Qatar alone inside their borders, they won't give us any grief about what we do outside their borders.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 02:33 PM (uWKK8)

30 But George W Bush told me Islam was a religion of peace.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 02:32 PM (bfwj/)
______

Dubya was correct. Islam is a religion of piece.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 02:34 PM (iFTx/)

31 OT but:

Politics UK
@PolitlcsUK
5h
🚨 NEW: The Government is set to scrap trial by jury for most cases

Only murder, rape, manslaughter and a few public interest cases will go to a jury, while all other cases will be decided by a single judge

https://archive.is/gu8WL

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 02:34 PM (RuTUS)

32 19 "So-called c3 charities do not pay taxes, but the catch is that c3 charities cannot engage in partisan activity."

I'd nuke this corrupt loophole for all c3 charities. Yea, it will hurt some of "our" groups, but it will shut down a lot more leftwing partisan political activists. Overall, it would be a big win for us.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 02:31 PM (iFTx/)

THIS. I've been against these organizations for ages. I'm waiting for the nonprofit sector's Sarbanes-Oxley moment for years.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 25, 2025 02:34 PM (0CU3H)

33 Too late for last thread:

https://is.gd/5CNdk7

@WallStreetApes
Lara Logan interviews Former CIA operations officer Gary Berntsen who explains how elections are being stolen in America

🚨 He describes there are teams of statisticians, mathematicians, and hackers who map out every county and identify where margins can be quietly adjusted....
[video]

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2025 02:34 PM (ULPxl)

34 17 If we don't look at the UK and take heed of what the muzzie mission is, we're completely fucked.
Posted by: ballistic at November 25, 2025 02:30 PM (3BwY

Probably fucked anyway. Your typical AWFL wine moms will blame Republicans and patriarchy when the Pakistani rape gangs start kidnapping and pimping out their daughters, while feeling jealous that they weren't the ones to get taken forcefully by swarthy exotic men.

Posted by: Muhammed's Milking Farm at November 25, 2025 02:34 PM (TbWk/)

35 But George W Bush told me Islam was a religion of peace.
Posted by: Smell the Glove


An organization whose only goal is to establish snackbars throughout Hawaii.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 02:35 PM (77rzZ)

36 "Muslim Brotherhood" sounds like gay porn made in Gaza
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 02:32 PM (iFTx/)


Go read the last chapter of The Reaper by Nicholas Irving. He expresses that jihadis heading out for martyrdom do basically that the night before as they'll be forgiven and allowed into 'heaven' afterwards.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 02:35 PM (Zz0t1)

37 >>> Can we all agree the fried onion rings on top are mandatory?
Posted by: Be reasonable at November 25, 2025 02:31 PM (tkslY)


This is the correct way, except you take the green beans and throw them into the trash first.


I try to eat all the fried onions in the house each year before this monstrosity can be berthed but I am just one man against the world and it is a terrible burden.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 02:35 PM (3uBP9)

38 Nutmeg in the green bean casserole?

*gasp*
*clutches pearls*

Could lead to dancing!

Posted by: Church Lady at November 25, 2025 02:36 PM (tkslY)

39 18 Ok. Let's move on to the topic of green bean casseroles.
Posted by: Food threadist

That's my cooking assignment for T-day. So simple even I can't screw it up.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 02:30 PM (77rzZ)

Don't be so defeatist, and have a little more confidence in yourself.

Posted by: Affirming affirmations at November 25, 2025 02:36 PM (TbWk/)

40 It would be great to see Islam banned in the US.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at November 25, 2025 02:36 PM (qZdIZ)

41 >>> Ok. Let's move on to the topic of green bean casseroles.
Posted by: Food threadist at November 25, 2025 02:29 PM

Yummy. My family hates it though.

Supposedly it was leaked that a bigwig in campbell's called all of their soups trash? And their customers poor trash? Luckily making your own homemade cream of mushroom soup is easy, and tastier!

Chicken stock, cream cheese and sour cream, diced mushrooms, herbs. So good.

Between the Weapons movie making campbell's soup queasy and ominous for me, and that news... if it's true I'm done. I can make all my fave Campbell soups at home, cheaper and more flavorful and healthier.

Posted by: LizLem at November 25, 2025 02:37 PM (gWBY1)

42 Sponge! = First!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 25, 2025 02:37 PM (YobFY)

43
Mentioned in last thread...

If SNAP is changed to force everyone currently on it to reapply...and then they also enforce the work component for everyone not on disability... that will be huge.
Posted by: LizLem

===============

I was hoping that would be Rollins's formal announcement. I've only seen it in rumor format.

THAT said, what the hell is going on with CAIR? Aren't they, like, illegal?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2025 02:37 PM (RfDQK)

44 Not so fast bud.
- Judge Ahmed bin Abdul Mohammed

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 02:37 PM (HW6XE)

45 Canned green beans, French’s fried onions. Canned mushroom soup, add salt pepper and nutmeg. Bake.
Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 02:32 PM (PCK5/)
******
I prefer frozen French cut green beans, mushrooms and slivered almonds added to my green bean a casserole.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2025 02:37 PM (NpAcC)

46
I hope this designation actually makes a difference. As in, a few people get kicked out or denied entry, significant funding is denied, that sort of thing. Otherwise, it's just "Trump banned MUSLIMS! omgomgomg!!!!"

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2025 02:38 PM (RfDQK)

47 Some Commissar Judge will be out to stop this anti- Islam

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 02:38 PM (+qU29)

48 "Muslim Brotherhood" sounds like gay porn made in Gaza
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 02:32 PM (iFTx/)


Go read the last chapter of The Reaper by Nicholas Irving. He expresses that jihadis heading out for martyrdom do basically that the night before as they'll be forgiven and allowed into 'heaven' afterwards.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 02:35 PM (Zz0t1)
_____

"Inorite?"

-- Prophet "Dickrider" Mohammed

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 02:38 PM (iFTx/)

49 @PolitlcsUK
5h
🚨 NEW: The Government is set to scrap trial by jury for most cases

Only murder, rape, manslaughter and a few public interest cases will go to a jury, while all other cases will be decided by a single judge

https://archive.is/gu8WL
Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 02:34 PM (RuTUS)


The UK is f*cked.

Sayonara, bitches.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 02:38 PM (Zz0t1)

50 I naively always assumed welfare was temporary. Like you had to reapply every now and then. But I guess once you’re on you’re on for life.

We are such a retarded country.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 02:38 PM (HW6XE)

51 I prefer frozen French cut green beans, mushrooms and slivered almonds added to my green bean a casserole.
Posted by: redridinghood

The almonds are a great idea. Sliced or slivered?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 02:38 PM (77rzZ)

52 Should have happened 30 years ago.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 25, 2025 02:39 PM (N1DT3)

53 EPIC disaster… that’s what it is a disaster…. Abbott has the right idea (I think)… I don’t want a sharia community just down the road

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 25, 2025 02:39 PM (YobFY)

54 45 Canned green beans, French’s fried onions. Canned mushroom soup, add salt pepper and nutmeg. Bake.
Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 02:32 PM (PCK5/)
******
I prefer frozen French cut green beans, mushrooms and slivered almonds added to my green bean a casserole.
Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2025 02:37 PM (NpAcC)

I’m Ozarks so I have no knowledge of “slivered” almonds. Seems suspicious.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 02:39 PM (PCK5/)

55 Islam is incompatible with Western culture.

Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2025 02:39 PM (YwEeS)

56 And now, just as predicted, Tucker Carlson has come out and said he hates the Republican Party and will oppose all Republican candidates from now on.

I remember not long ago getting some heat for saying the Tucker was just another Bill Kristol, if not worse. Tucker now seems dedicated to proving that with every new podcast he makes.
Meanwhile his producer has just embarked on a week long all expenses paid trip to Qatar, not to do any interviews or anything. Presumably just to collect some cash and receive new marching orders.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 02:39 PM (uWKK8)

57 Sponge! = First!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 25, 2025 02:37 PM (YobFY)


A true 'sun shines on a dog's ass' moment.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 02:39 PM (Zz0t1)

58 Oh, never mind. You already mentioned that they are slivered.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 02:39 PM (77rzZ)

59 Islam is incompatible with Western culture.
Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2025 02:39 PM (YwEeS)



Incompatible with God's gift of free thought.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 02:40 PM (Zz0t1)

60 And now, just as predicted, Tucker Carlson has come out and said he hates the Republican Party and will oppose all Republican candidates from now on.

Good riddance.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 02:40 PM (77rzZ)

61 Green bean casserole is the food item at every Thanksgiving that I don’t even take one bite… why eat that stuff with turkey mashed potatoes stuffing gravy and pumpkin pie on the table… wasted calories

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 25, 2025 02:40 PM (YobFY)

62 >>> The UK is f*cked.

Sayonara, bitches.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 02:38 PM (Zz0t1)


Being thrown in the pokey for writing "The UK is F*cked" is most definitely something that they will want decided by a single judge.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 02:40 PM (3uBP9)

63 Islam is incompatible with green bean casserole.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 02:40 PM (PCK5/)

64 Do the Mohammedans eat green bean casseroles at the Wednesday night covered dish supper and jihad emporium?

Posted by: Now I'm curious at November 25, 2025 02:40 PM (tkslY)

65 The leftists have common cause, for now, with the Islamists in wanting to regain the levers of power. They are working together, for now, to enslave us presuming they win.

The GOP doesn't have the stomach for this fight. That, and they probably have been bought off to sit this one out even if they did resist.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2025 02:41 PM (NwnyJ)

66 Goat soup.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 02:41 PM (PCK5/)

67 Do the Democrat Party next.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 25, 2025 02:41 PM (W+tQj)

68 If anyone responsible for this shit happens to be reading: check out your local MSAs.

They're all funded by the Brotherhood at this point.

Hell, even 20 years ago. I used to get into it with them on campus at UCD - especially during their "Truth About the Prophet" drives. Nasty confrontations. These guys were organized by Jamaat e Islami, they had members in the Jamaat al-Fuqra chapter in their Collegiate Peaks training camp... it was basically a terrorist cell with a student group attached to it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 02:41 PM (BI5O2)

69 Being thrown in the pokey for writing "The UK is F*cked" is most definitely something that they will want decided by a single judge.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 02:40 PM (3uBP9)


Yep. I don't have any real dealings with the UK anymore and should I need to travel to Europe in the future for any reason, I will NOT be traveling through there. I'll go through France or The Netherlands first.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 02:42 PM (Zz0t1)

70 >>> NEW: The Government is set to scrap trial by jury for most cases

So all hate crime cases will be decided by one judge?

Yeah, goodbye freedoms of speech in UK. Hope you enjoyed it while you had it.

Can they arrest Monty python after the fact for the Loretta bit? That's a hate crime.

Posted by: LizLem at November 25, 2025 02:42 PM (gWBY1)

71 >>> Green bean casserole is the food item at every Thanksgiving that I don’t even take one bite… why eat that stuff with turkey mashed potatoes stuffing gravy and pumpkin pie on the table… wasted calories
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 25, 2025 02:40 PM (YobFY)


It is not worthy of the gravy, which has sacrificed so much to make us all happy.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 02:42 PM (3uBP9)

72 Can we move on to cranberry sauce??

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 02:43 PM (PCK5/)

73 Egypt, Jordan has designed the Muslim brotherhood long ago, Lebanon has no such problem, Qatar and Turkey are not there, Sudan where a genocide is ongoing,not there, how wonderful.

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at November 25, 2025 02:43 PM (Lmw+Y)

74 Goat soup.
Posted by: tubal

But the goat has to have come from another village.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 02:43 PM (77rzZ)

75 I don't think I've ever had green bean casserole.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 02:44 PM (DRSnL)

76 Can we move on to cranberry sauce??
Posted by: tubal

You can have it. I'm sticking with green-bean casserole.


Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 02:44 PM (77rzZ)

77 some Middle Eastern affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist groups


How about all of them.

Posted by: Alf at November 25, 2025 02:44 PM (rGPrJ)

78 74 Goat soup.
Posted by: tubal

But the goat has to have come from another village.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 02:43 PM (77rzZ)

Made me laugh.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 02:44 PM (PCK5/)

79 71 the gravy, which has sacrificed so much to make us all happy
Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 02:42 PM (3uBP9)

and nap-worthy.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 02:44 PM (RuTUS)

80 14 *clears throat*

Ok. Let's move on to the topic of green bean casseroles.
---------------
Isn't Cream of Mushroom soup the casserole glue?

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2025 02:44 PM (Wg6v7)

81 Isn't Cream of Mushroom soup the casserole glue?
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2025 02:44 PM (Wg6v7)


For the most part, yes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 02:45 PM (Zz0t1)

82 74 Goat soup.
Posted by: tubal

But the goat has to have come from another village.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 02:43 PM (77rzZ)

Depends on if they fucked it or not.

Posted by: That they have an imam ruling on this speaks volumes at November 25, 2025 02:45 PM (TbWk/)

83 75 I don't think I've ever had green bean casserole.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 02:44 PM (DRSnL)

It's yummy! You can put bacon in it.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 02:45 PM (RuTUS)

84 Scrapping trial by jury means they are anticipating prosecuting and criminalizing at a higher rate, and clearing these cases under a jury system would take too long.

Orwell Weeps.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 25, 2025 02:45 PM (XV/Pl)

85 Amid a flood of celebratory declarations and blessings over Trump banning the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon, somehow the insight got swallowed up that there's no mention there of Qatar (head of the snake) and Turkey, the two countries that are truly behind the Muslim Brotherhood today, funding and hosting their leaders. In Jordan and Egypt, the organization is banned anyway, and in Lebanon, it holds no decisive importance. So we'll wait for Trump to deal with Turkey and Qatar too... or not

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at November 25, 2025 02:45 PM (Lmw+Y)

86 I prefer frozen French cut green beans, mushrooms and slivered almonds added to my green bean a casserole.
Posted by: redridinghood


What do you do with the almonds in your recipe?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 02:46 PM (77rzZ)

87 I'd rather a cylinder of red jellied cranberry sauce, with the ridges still showing, as a dip for a bag of Lays potato chips on my Thanksgiving table than that gawd-awful green bean casserole.

It is the all-time lamest of stupid dishes.

An orphan from the 70's that should have been put down in that shallow ditch next the tuna and lime-jello mold "dessert."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 02:46 PM (T3zUV)

88 @83

>>It's yummy! You can put bacon in it.

You really don't have to put bacon on everything.

Naked green bean casserole is just as good.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 25, 2025 02:46 PM (XV/Pl)

89 Imam's get public outcry and government attention when they cry for being threatened with bacon.

Americans are being arrested for threatening islhamists with slabs of bacon.

We're on a dark road in this country. islham is winning. Liberals are stupid and falling for it, hook, line and sinker.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 02:46 PM (Zz0t1)

90 What’s that stuff in turkey that causes drowsiness?

[Jerry and George in enthusiastic unison] Tryptophan!!!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 25, 2025 02:46 PM (YobFY)

91 "Isn't Cream of Mushroom soup the casserole glue?"

Such deep philosophical questions for a thread that's merely food adjacent.

Posted by: Imponderables at November 25, 2025 02:47 PM (tkslY)

92 84 Scrapping trial by jury means they are anticipating prosecuting and criminalizing at a higher rate, and clearing these cases under a jury system would take too long.

Orwell Weeps.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 25, 2025 02:45 PM (XV/Pl)

And leaving (the article says) 75% of cases up to one judge.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 02:47 PM (RuTUS)

93 As 80% of our Arab allies and Israel have been asking us to do for literally decades. I'm not sure it's accurate, but it's not going to be unpopular with anyone who matters to American international relations in the region.

Heartbreaking: The worst person you know just made a great point. Everything is now a terrorist group except White Christians.

When are we going to designate Israel as a terrorist ethnic colony? And designate the US as a terror supporting state?

Trump winded and dined with a member of Al Qaeda and then the leader of the country who financed Al Qaeda just this month.

I wouldn’t call it a terrorist organizations, but unpopular with dictatorships. They are seen as a threat to current power structures, especially the Egyptian government. On paper, they renounced violence in the 1970s, but some still accuse it of being violent

They are the Muslim republicans, basically using Islam to move the masses in a political fashion. not terrorists but the governments in GCC are intimidated by them. People will choose Muslim political affiliation over the secularism we have now in GCC (also Turkey).

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 25, 2025 02:47 PM (JCZqz)

94 88 @83

>>It's yummy! You can put bacon in it.

You really don't have to put bacon on everything.

Naked green bean casserole is just as good.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 25, 2025 02:46 PM (XV/Pl)

You can have both.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 02:47 PM (RuTUS)

95 Green bean casserole is my assignment for every Thanksgiving and Christmas. Either I do a good job or my family doesn't trust me with other foods.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at November 25, 2025 02:47 PM (31p00)

96 Can we move on to cranberry sauce??

With or without molded-in ridges?

Posted by: Oddbob at November 25, 2025 02:47 PM (3nLb4)

97 I think the one thing that I don't like is the cream of asshroom soup in the the casserole. Because I love green beans, and fried onions. But together, nope.

Posted by: banana Dream - really trying to make asshroom happin at November 25, 2025 02:47 PM (3uBP9)

98 75 I don't think I've ever had green bean casserole.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 02:44 PM (DRSnL)

It's yummy! You can put bacon in it.
Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 02:45 PM (RuTUS)

How about bacon minus the casserole?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 25, 2025 02:47 PM (YobFY)

99 60 And now, just as predicted, Tucker Carlson has come out and said he hates the Republican Party and will oppose all Republican candidates from now on.


earthshaking news

lol

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 02:48 PM (emBoF)

100 The Green Slime >>> Green Bean Casserole

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 02:48 PM (iFTx/)

101 love green beans

hate the casserole

I mean it's not like I like any casseroles tho

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 02:48 PM (emBoF)

102 96 Can we move on to cranberry sauce??

With or without molded-in ridges?
Posted by: Oddbob at November 25, 2025 02:47 PM (3nLb4)

Ribbed, for pleasure.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 02:48 PM (PCK5/)

103 "and CAIR, too"
I hear it as "and the Trojan horse you rode in, too."

Posted by: GWB at November 25, 2025 02:49 PM (B3UYE)

104 In fact, Thanksgiving is a designated bacon free holiday in my house.

No bacon on Thanksgiving, ever.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 25, 2025 02:49 PM (XV/Pl)

105 Without banning the Qatari & Turkish brunches of the Brotherhood it's a useless BS move he played to please some of his previous MAGA supporters. Let us know when Trump designates ALL Muslim Brotherhoods - including the worst terror offenders in favored nations Qatar, Turkey & Syria.

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at November 25, 2025 02:49 PM (Lmw+Y)

106 >>> 97 I think the one thing that I don't like is the cream of asshroom soup in the the casserole. Because I love green beans, and fried onions. But together, nope.
Posted by: banana Dream - really trying to make asshroom happin at November 25, 2025 02:47 PM (3uBP9)

Look upthread for LizLem's homemade version of the soup. I'm stealing it.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2025 02:49 PM (ULPxl)

107 One English man got thrown in jail for putting up Union Jack flags.

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 02:49 PM (+qU29)

108 My Mom used to make this yummy orange-jello salad with carrots and walnuts in it. One of my favorites as a kid.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 02:49 PM (77rzZ)

109 And now, just as predicted, Tucker Carlson has come out and said he hates the Republican Party and will oppose all Republican candidates from now on.




Well, him coming out as anti-Israel should've been your first clue he was a democrat.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 02:49 PM (Zz0t1)

110 Cream of Mushroom (condensed) is a base for my Beef Stroganoff. Well, that and the sour cream.

Never actually ate it as... soup though.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2025 02:49 PM (NwnyJ)

111 No bacon on Thanksgiving, ever.
Posted by: Thomas Bender


Ham is cool, though.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 02:50 PM (77rzZ)

112 Imma thinking Baked Corn Sueflay beats Green Beans glued with Cream of Mushroom Soup any day.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2025 02:50 PM (Wg6v7)

113 Heh. Banana Dream said "cream of asshroom." Heh heh.

Posted by: Beavis at November 25, 2025 02:50 PM (tkslY)

114 Without banning the Qatari & Turkish brunches

Mimosas are haram!

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 25, 2025 02:50 PM (gwt4v)

115 >>> 109 And now, just as predicted, Tucker Carlson has come out and said he hates the Republican Party and will oppose all Republican candidates from now on.
==
Well, him coming out as anti-Israel should've been your first clue he was a democrat.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 02:49 PM (Zz0t1)

TC is see eye ay adjacent.

Why would *they* want to blame a bunch of stuff of teh jooz...?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 25, 2025 02:51 PM (ULPxl)

116 >>>NEW: The Government is set to scrap trial by jury for most cases

Ah, the final fruits of the Glorious Revolution and eternal enshrinement of the rights of the Englishman.
tell me again the reason we fought the cold war?

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 02:51 PM (rbvCR)

117 >>> And now, just as predicted, Tucker Carlson has come out and said he hates the Republican Party and will oppose all Republican candidates from now on.

earthshaking news

lol
Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 02:48 PM (emBoF)


There was some Qatari conference happening just recently and the owner of Tucker Inc. was one of the primary speakers. It's all not even just a snide joke anymore.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 02:51 PM (3uBP9)

118 60 And now, just as predicted, Tucker Carlson has come out and said he hates the Republican Party and will oppose all Republican candidates from now on.

Well....bye.

Posted by: Curly Bill Brocius at November 25, 2025 02:52 PM (JCZqz)

119 @111

>>Ham is cool, though.

Who eats ham on Thanksgiving?

The turkey is the headlining act.

Christmas is a bacon friendly holiday.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 25, 2025 02:52 PM (XV/Pl)

120 Tucker Carlson really had me fooled good and well for awhile. No more… he’s really showing his ass in a way it’ll be impossible to forget

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 25, 2025 02:52 PM (/iXAp)

121 The leftists have common cause, for now, with the Islamists in wanting to regain the levers of power. They are working together, for now, to enslave us presuming they win.

-----------------

Dual Death Cults.

And when they Duel -- as is happening in Western Europe now -- at least we'll get to see a lot of Commie heads roll ... so we got that going for us, which is nice.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 25, 2025 02:52 PM (W+tQj)

122 Green bean casserole is the food item at every Thanksgiving that I don’t even take one bite… why eat that stuff with turkey mashed potatoes stuffing gravy and pumpkin pie on the table… wasted calories
----
Do you like soggy, limp, canned green beans?!
And mushroom soup?!

What if we combined them into one, big soggy mess of zero structural integrity, hot out the oven, topped with some pizzazz of crunchy onions?!!

Yum, yum!!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 02:52 PM (T3zUV)

123 "While CAIR preaches takeover plans from pulpits and trains 100,000 future operatives...

📌 This is not influence -- it is an organized political seizure project running off tax-exempt religious infrastructure."

or Real Sedition? (to the extent CAIR is not merely an Enemy Entity operating within our borders, in which case they are just The Enemy Within?)

Posted by: illiniwek at November 25, 2025 02:52 PM (vbXSk)

124 Qatar is the head of the God damn snake. The U.S. government accepted a luxury Boeing 747 jet from Qatar, valued at $400 million, to be used as Air Force One for President Donald Trump. Yet he won’t designate the financial arm of the Muslim Brotherhood because they gave him a plane.

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at November 25, 2025 02:53 PM (Lmw+Y)

125 Who eats ham on Thanksgiving?

The turkey is the headlining act.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

I actually prefer ham to turkey. But, tradition and all that.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 02:53 PM (77rzZ)

126 The Horde has strong views about food. And everything else as I think about it.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 02:53 PM (PCK5/)

127 Who eats ham on Thanksgiving?

The turkey is the headlining act.

Christmas is a bacon friendly holiday.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 25, 2025 02:52 PM (XV/Pl)


I smoke a ham every Thanksgiving. This year, I'm not cooking a turkey.

So tppppthhht.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 02:54 PM (Zz0t1)

128 I've seen articles saying a lot of people are walking away from Islam. Might be wish casting, but people get a taste of Western culture , wiping your ass with your left hand doesn't seem like such a fmgreat idea

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 02:54 PM (bfwj/)

129 96 Can we move on to cranberry sauce??

With or without molded-in ridges?
Posted by: Oddbob

Those are integrated cutting guides. A bonus feature to explain our 35% price increase.

Posted by: Big Canned Cranberry at November 25, 2025 02:54 PM (JCZqz)

130 Also in food related news, Alton Brown has brought back Good Eats on his YouTube Channel.

The first episode is all about the trukey.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 25, 2025 02:54 PM (XV/Pl)

131 120 Tucker Carlson really had me fooled good and well for awhile. No more… he’s really showing his ass in a way it’ll be impossible to forget.

-----------------

One of the Greatest Grifters of our time -- which is saying a hell of a lot IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 25, 2025 02:54 PM (W+tQj)

132 Who eats ham on Thanksgiving?

The turkey is the headlining act.

Christmas is a bacon friendly holiday.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 25, 2025 02:52 PM (XV/Pl)


I smoke a ham every Thanksgiving. This year, I'm not cooking a turkey.

So tppppthhht.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 02:54 PM (Zz0t1)
_____

Lotsa people do a ham on TS, whether alongside a turkey or instead. I've done it alongside when expecting a lot of people. For smaller TS dinner, I make a turkey.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 02:56 PM (iFTx/)

133 >>> The Horde has strong views about food. And everything else as I think about it.
Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 02:53 PM (PCK5/)


I'm completely ambivalent about hardwood vs carpet, both are fairly pleasant.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 02:56 PM (3uBP9)

134 >>>And now, just as predicted, Tucker Carlson has come out and said he hates the Republican Party and will oppose all Republican candidates from now on.

which side, Trump and Vance side, or the Lindsay Graham side?

Just asking here. Because that is kind of important.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 02:56 PM (rbvCR)

135 All the pundits are mercenary hired guns is what I’ve come to believe. Pretty much written the lot of them off.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 02:56 PM (PCK5/)

136 Mashed sweet potatoes topped with marshmallows.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 02:56 PM (RuTUS)

137 So now its a food thread?

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 02:57 PM (vFG9F)

138 I’ve always ignored the cranberry sauce and Thanksgiving as well… I’m only interested in the basics, no frills

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 25, 2025 02:57 PM (YobFY)

139 136 Mashed sweet potatoes topped with marshmallows.
Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 02:56 PM (RuTUS)

Preach!

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 02:57 PM (PCK5/)

140 >>>Posted by: Ace at 05:20 PM

A timely post.

Posted by: No Name Today at November 25, 2025 02:57 PM (8mulE)

141 I've seen articles saying a lot of people are walking away from Islam. Might be wish casting, but people get a taste of Western culture , wiping your ass with your left hand doesn't seem like such a fmgreat idea
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 02:54 PM (bfwj/)
____

I wish this were true, but I think if anything the reverse is happening. Islam is winning, and people want to be on the winning team.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 02:57 PM (iFTx/)

142 Speaking of food, PDT called Pritzker a fat slob. That's my President!

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 02:57 PM (vFG9F)

143 SpongeBro has a poultry allergy, so eating turkey any time of year would likely kill him.

He NEVER eats turkey on Thanksgiving.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 02:58 PM (Zz0t1)

144 Ham on Thanksgiving, prime rib on Christmas. If you don't like turkey.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 02:58 PM (3uBP9)

145 I'll occasionally do a Lasagna or baked ziti as a pre/adjacent Turkey meal if I'm having a big crowd over.

Never thought to do a ham.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 25, 2025 02:58 PM (XV/Pl)

146 138 — ON Thanksgiving (not and)… I don’t ignore Thanksgiving…. Damn phone

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 25, 2025 02:58 PM (YobFY)

147 137 So now its a food thread?
Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 02:57 PM (vFG9F)

It's Thanksgiving Week. We're a little carried away.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 02:58 PM (RuTUS)

148 I wish this were true, but I think if anything the reverse is happening. Islam is winning, and people want to be on the winning team.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Christianity is the winning team, in the end.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 02:58 PM (77rzZ)

149 141

I wish this were true, but I think if anything the reverse is happening. Islam is winning, and people want to be on the winning team.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 02:57 PM (iFTx/)

They have the demographic upper hand, no small thing.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 02:58 PM (PCK5/)

150 It's not CAIR.

It' not the Muslim Brotherhood.

It's Islam.

If you refuse to identify the enemy, you will lose. Believe me, we know. We're living through this here in Israel since the state's founding.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2025 02:59 PM (copfg)

151 Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix: comes in a little box that costs less than $1.00!
Canned creamed corn: adds moisture so your corn casserole isn’t dry.
Canned whole kernel corn: make sure to drain the corn before adding to the mixture.
Sour cream: adds a creamy texture.
Butter: adds richness and structure.
Eggs: binds the mixture together to form the casserole.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2025 02:59 PM (Wg6v7)

152 Can I just say that America First people complaining that Trump is doing foreign policy as some sort of betrayal is one of the weirdest things of Trump 2.0?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 02:59 PM (GBKbO)

153 >>> Posted by: Ace at 05:20 PM

A timely post.
Posted by: No Name Today at November 25, 2025 02:57 PM (8mulE)


Heh, the rest of the days posts will be undern00ds.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 02:59 PM (3uBP9)

154 SpongeBro has a poultry allergy, so eating turkey any time of year would likely kill him.

He NEVER eats turkey on Thanksgiving.
Posted by: Sponge

Wow, I've never heard of that. Can he eat eggs?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 02:59 PM (77rzZ)

155 I wish this were true, but I think if anything the reverse is happening. Islam is winning, and people want to be on the winning team.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 02:57 PM (iFTx/)

They have the demographic upper hand, no small thing.
Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 02:58 PM (PCK5/)
____

Yea, it might even be the biggest thing at this point. They are breeding us out.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 02:59 PM (iFTx/)

156 142 Speaking of food, PDT called Pritzker a fat slob. That's my President!
Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 02:57 PM (vFG9F)

He also pardoned two turkeys.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 02:59 PM (RuTUS)

157 I wonder what it's like to be in a position to be approached by the federal government and offered a shitload of money to betray your country and turn it into a communist shithole.

What say YOU, Tucker?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:00 PM (Zz0t1)

158 Comment here on Ace: "Tucker Carlson really had me fooled good and well for awhile. No more… he’s really showing his ass in a way it’ll be impossible to forget. And now, just as predicted, Tucker Carlson has come out and said he hates the Republican Party and will oppose all Republican candidates from now on. Well....bye"

People like Tucker and Candace Owens use the 1st amendment like a sword instead of a shield. Both the MF's are all about clicks, likes, shares, $$ tweets, bots, $$ retweets with their conspiracist bullshit.

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at November 25, 2025 03:00 PM (Lmw+Y)

159
I've seen articles saying a lot of people are walking away from Islam. Might be wish casting, but people get a taste of Western culture , wiping your ass with your left hand doesn't seem like such a fmgreat idea
Posted by: Smell the Glove

==============

Many Muslims let go of religious restrictions the minute they hit Western soil, but when some tribal call goes out, they obey. I knew people like this. They would vote to install Sharia law in their city in a heartbeat, with no intention whatsoever of living by it themselves. Just something to inflict on people who burn Qurans or drop bacon in a mosque parking lot.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2025 03:00 PM (RfDQK)

160 I smoke a ham every Thanksgiving. This year, I'm not cooking a turkey.

So tppppthhht.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 02:54 PM

Obligatory:

How do you keep it lit?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2025 03:00 PM (Wnv9h)

161 So now its a food thread?
Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 02:57 PM (vFG9F)

Of course not, we have to spend the next 8 hours screaming at each other and getting butt-hurt over someone who has a podcast.

BECAUSE OUR LIVES ARE TOTALLY BARREN


Anyhow, here is a video on the best option for Thanksgiving. Selfsgiving Is The Thanksgiving You Really Want

youtu.be/k111xowLzIQ

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 03:00 PM (rbvCR)

162 I wish this were true, but I think if anything the reverse is happening. Islam is winning, and people want to be on the winning team.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Christianity is the winning team, in the end.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 02:58 PM (77rzZ)
____

We don't have a weather machine, tho

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 03:01 PM (iFTx/)

163 Is there a "Muslim Sisterhood", or a "Women's Auxiliary Unit of the Muslim Brotherhood"?

Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2025 03:01 PM (mADJX)

164 Do you like soggy, limp, canned green beans?!

It's a little more work (which I realize negates 90% of the reason for its existence) but you can make it with fresh green beans. Just steam them to firm but not crunchy before mixing in.

And mushroom soup?!

OK, I have no good substitute for that. I mean, I'm sure it's possible to make from scratch but who would bother with that?

Posted by: Oddbob at November 25, 2025 03:01 PM (3nLb4)

165 151 Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix: comes in a little box that costs less than $1.00!
Canned creamed corn: adds moisture so your corn casserole isn’t dry.
Canned whole kernel corn: make sure to drain the corn before adding to the mixture.
Sour cream: adds a creamy texture.
Butter: adds richness and structure.
Eggs: binds the mixture together to form the casserole.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2025 02:59 PM (Wg6v7)

Yum!

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 03:01 PM (RuTUS)

166 What do you do with the almonds in your recipe?
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 02:46 PM (77rzZ)
*******
I lightly toast them and put them in with all the ingredients.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2025 03:01 PM (NpAcC)

167
Wow, I've never heard of that. Can he eat eggs?
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 02:59 PM (77rzZ)


Yes. He can even eat the skin of a bird, but the meat of anything with feathers is out of the question.

Sad, because he LOVES to hunt and has spent many a year doing a massive fry during dove season in his home town.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:01 PM (Zz0t1)

168 161 Of course not, we have to spend the next 8 hours screaming at each other and getting butt-hurt over someone who has a podcast.

BECAUSE OUR LIVES ARE TOTALLY BARREN


Anyhow, here is a video on the best option for Thanksgiving. Selfsgiving Is The Thanksgiving You Really Want

youtu.be/k111xowLzIQ

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 03:00 PM (rbvCR)

=====

We could also talk about Ozu's movies.

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=6W46m2l4CCA

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:02 PM (GBKbO)

169 " arglebargle"
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at November 25, 2025 03:00 PM (Lmw+Y)

"we must protect our rights by removing them from people we disagree with"

Good boy. Have a cookie

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 03:02 PM (rbvCR)

170 According to the interwebs, here is what atucker actually said:

"The Republican Party is almost to the point where it's just useless and I'm gonna have to oppose it. I hate them too much.”

Frankly, I get it.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 25, 2025 03:02 PM (gwt4v)

171 >>> I smoke a ham every Thanksgiving. This year, I'm not cooking a turkey.

So tppppthhht.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 02:54 PM

Obligatory:

How do you keep it lit?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2025 03:00 PM (Wnv9h)


Like any modern civilized sponge, he vapes his ham.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 03:02 PM (3uBP9)

172 He also pardoned two turkeys.
Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 02:59 PM (RuTUS)

Called Chuck and Nancy heh

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 25, 2025 03:02 PM (/iXAp)

173
How do you keep it lit?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2025 03:00 PM (Wnv9h)


I have a blowtorch.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:02 PM (Zz0t1)

174
The ragheads pop out babies like crazy.

White people aren't. It's not looking good for our future.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 25, 2025 03:02 PM (3ek7K)

175 As to green beans. No mushroom soup casseroles in this house! Greek braised green beans for us this year (again).

Tomatoes, plenty of garlic and red pepper flakes, white wine, and a little bit of cinnamon.

To go with Algerian lamb shanks, bacon-wrapped turkey, and a bunch of other great stuff.

Posted by: GWB at November 25, 2025 03:03 PM (B3UYE)

176 170 According to the interwebs, here is what atucker actually said:

"The Republican Party is almost to the point where it's just useless and I'm gonna have to oppose it. I hate them too much.”

Frankly, I get it.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 25, 2025 03:02 PM (gwt4v)

=====

And yet, it will follow the Bill Kristol pattern of then supporting every Democrat because supporting third parties is a waste of time and money.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:03 PM (GBKbO)

177 We don't have a weather machine, tho
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 03:01 PM (iFTx/)

That is why our Billionaires are experimenting with chemtrails, true.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 03:03 PM (rbvCR)

178 Michelle Obama sparked alarm bells and speculation about using Ozempic as new footage emerged showing her having lost a considerable amount of weight.

Barack’s wife shared footage on her Instagram account of a photoshoot she did over the weekend with famous photographer Annie Leibovitz.

In the video, she posed in a gray t-shirt, jeans, and brown boots, looking far slimmer than the public has ever seen her.

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 03:04 PM (RHGPo)

179 124 Qatar is the head of the God damn snake. The U.S. government accepted a luxury Boeing 747 jet from Qatar, valued at $400 million, to be used as Air Force One for President Donald Trump. Yet he won’t designate the financial arm of the Muslim Brotherhood because they gave him a plane.
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at November 25, 2025 02:53 PM (Lmw+Y)

The plane is trivial. Qatar is the backdoor channel to almost every government and movement in the Middle East, so if anyone is trying to do anything diplomatically, you have to deal with them. Of course they are not trustworthy; but neither are they radical muslims either. Most westerners appear not to understand them, although I believe Trump does.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 03:04 PM (uWKK8)

180 I'd nuke this corrupt loophole for all c3 charities. Yea, it will hurt some of "our" groups, but it will shut down a lot more leftwing partisan political activists. Overall, it would be a big win for us.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
-------
Agree.

Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2025 03:04 PM (2bFN5)

181 >>> As to green beans. No mushroom soup casseroles in this house! Greek braised green beans for us this year (again).

Tomatoes, plenty of garlic and red pepper flakes, white wine, and a little bit of cinnamon.

To go with Algerian lamb shanks, bacon-wrapped turkey, and a bunch of other great stuff.
Posted by: GWB at November 25, 2025 03:03 PM (B3UYE)


Wow, that sounds amazing!

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 03:04 PM (3uBP9)

182 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger

How's the Preminger viewing coming along?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 03:04 PM (77rzZ)

183 And yet, it will follow the Bill Kristol pattern of then supporting every Democrat because supporting third parties is a waste of time and money.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:03 PM (GBKbO)

Really? This is true, or is this just the "bitch eating crackers" hot take?

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 03:04 PM (rbvCR)

184 "The Republican Party is almost to the point where it's just useless and I'm gonna have to oppose it. I hate them too much.”

Frankly, I get it.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 25, 2025 03:02 PM (gwt4v)


So, what's his alternative? Saying you hate the R's with no solution means you're supporting the D. And it appears he loves the D now.

*laughs like Beavis*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:04 PM (Zz0t1)

185 182 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger

How's the Preminger viewing coming along?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 03:04 PM (77rzZ)

======

...Frustrating...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:05 PM (GBKbO)

186 ...Frustrating...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

How so?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 03:06 PM (77rzZ)

187
In the video, she posed in a gray t-shirt, jeans, and brown boots, looking far slimmer than the public has ever seen her.
Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 03:04 PM (RHGPo)


She's still a disgusting, racist pig with a dick swinging between her legs.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:06 PM (Zz0t1)

188 So, what's his alternative? Saying you hate the R's with no solution means you're supporting the D. And it appears he loves the D now.

*laughs like Beavis*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:04 PM (Zz0t1)

Someone upthread typed assroom hehe

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 25, 2025 03:06 PM (/iXAp)

189 183 And yet, it will follow the Bill Kristol pattern of then supporting every Democrat because supporting third parties is a waste of time and money.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:03 PM (GBKbO)

Really? This is true, or is this just the "bitch eating crackers" hot take?

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 03:04 PM (rbvCR)

=====

If Tucker just ends up spending his time supporting anti-Jewish Libertarians with no tie to either of the two major parties, I'll eat crow.

But his anti-Semetism and desire for change and increasing antagonism against the GOP is a recipe for one thing: Calling Mamdani a moderate centrist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:06 PM (GBKbO)

190 So, what's his alternative? Saying you hate the R's with no solution means you're supporting the D. And it appears he loves the D now.

*laughs like Beavis*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:04 PM (Zz0t1)

As I've been saying - it's Bill Krystal and David French and all the fucking neverTrump assholes like George Conway all over again.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 03:06 PM (uWKK8)

191 JD Vance better be careful because Tucker's son works for him and could sabotage him.

Like father like son?

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2025 03:06 PM (NpAcC)

192 151 Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix: comes in a little box that costs less than $1.00!
Canned creamed corn: adds moisture so your corn casserole isn’t dry.
Canned whole kernel corn: make sure to drain the corn before adding to the mixture.
Sour cream: adds a creamy texture.
Butter: adds richness and structure.
Eggs: binds the mixture together to form the casserole.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2025 02:59 PM (Wg6v7)

For some reason, I would like to put ketchup on that.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 03:06 PM (RuTUS)

193 Is there a "Muslim Sisterhood",

No hoods!

Posted by: Genital Mutilations 'r' Us at November 25, 2025 03:06 PM (ittVa)

194 186 ...Frustrating...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

How so?
------------
You are required to wear a Monocle.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2025 03:06 PM (Wg6v7)

195 186 ...Frustrating...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

How so?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 03:06 PM (77rzZ)

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Some good stuff. A surprising amount of shit. Hardly any voice.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:06 PM (GBKbO)

196 Some good stuff. A surprising amount of shit. Hardly any voice.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Have you watched Laura yet?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 03:07 PM (77rzZ)

197 We don't have a weather machine, tho
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 03:01 PM (iFTx/)

So, you're saying you don't believe in anthropogenic climate change?

Posted by: GWB at November 25, 2025 03:08 PM (B3UYE)

198 196 Some good stuff. A surprising amount of shit. Hardly any voice.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Have you watched Laura yet?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 03:07 PM (77rzZ)

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Own it and have seen it a few times. It's good. I like it.

But, you know, I had to watch Forever Amber too.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:08 PM (GBKbO)

199 JD Vance better be careful because Tucker's son works for him and could sabotage him.

Like father like son?
Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2025 03:06 PM (NpAcC)

I can’t keep track of all the incestuous relationships… but is it Vance or Don Jr that’s good friends with Carlson?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 25, 2025 03:09 PM (/iXAp)

200 And yet, it will follow the Bill Kristol pattern of then supporting every Democrat because supporting third parties is a waste of time and money.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:03 PM (GBKbO)

Maybe. But he hasn't said that.

I'm not really a pro-Tucker guy. I've found him to be a drip since his bow-tie days. And I regard nearly all the "journalists" and commentators as grifters.

But the Tucker coverage is becoming grating. Because there's usually a layer of interpretation or exaggeration that one has to sort through. "Well, what Tucker really means is ..."

If what he is saying is on its face objectionable, then reporting exactly what he says should suffice to damn him.

And if despising the GOP and thinking it unworthy of support is a great vice, it's one shared by a significant number of Trump voters (who almost certainly will not be there in 202.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 25, 2025 03:09 PM (gwt4v)

201 Tucker's mission is obviously just the same as Paul Ryan's was coming into 2018 - to get a Dem majority in the House so that the entire last 2 years of Trump's Presidency will be wasted fighting endless Impeachment battles.

I've been saying that he is far more dangerous and destructive than Bill Kristol ever thought about being.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 03:09 PM (uWKK8)

202
Own it and have seen it a few times. It's good. I like it.

But, you know, I had to watch Forever Amber too.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:08 PM (GBKbO)


Do you do your videos in some barely intelligible foreign accent? Because I hear that's the way you REALLY get followers and monetization.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:09 PM (Zz0t1)

203 Yea, it might even be the biggest thing at this point. They are breeding us out.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 02:59 PM (iFTx/)

EXACTLY what the radio station owner said in Srebrenezia.

Posted by: GWB at November 25, 2025 03:10 PM (B3UYE)

204 Allahu Akbar !!!

Posted by: Pam Bondi at November 25, 2025 03:11 PM (abIsI)

205 The Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Egypt in 1928, is a transnational Islamist group with offshoots including Hamas.

And Kalorama.

Posted by: The Washington, DC Chapter at November 25, 2025 03:11 PM (+qfnT)

206 So, what's his alternative? Saying you hate the R's with no solution means you're supporting the D. And it appears he loves the D now.

*laughs like Beavis*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:04 PM (Zz0t1)

You may find it hard to build a coalition if you move to destroy everyone who disagrees with you. Simply stomping your feet and shouting that it is your party, you like it this way, and you will not accept any changes, will get you few converts, and unfortunately in this system you need voters, not simply deeming that you are right.
I mean, until we get two more Dem administrations. 8-12 years furthering Biden-Obama's reign will make that an option. At least for designated successors

William F Buckley also took this approach to conservatism, remember, and turned it from being a majority view in American politics, into Bill Buckley's clubhouse.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 03:11 PM (rbvCR)

207
But the Tucker coverage is becoming grating. Because there's usually a layer of interpretation or exaggeration that one has to sort through. "Well, what Tucker really means is ..."

What we're talking about today are the plain simple words straight out of Tucker's mouth.

Here's another one to chew on - in a recent podcast, Tucker said he viewed Feudalism as the best form of government by far, and longed for us all to get back to it. I'm not kidding, he did. I'm sure this has nothing with him having been born into the second richest family in America.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 03:11 PM (uWKK8)

208 202 Do you do your videos in some barely intelligible foreign accent? Because I hear that's the way you REALLY get followers and monetization.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:09 PM (Zz0t1)

======

American can be an accent if you're from somewhere else.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:11 PM (GBKbO)

209 "Who eats ham on Thanksgiving?

The turkey is the headlining act."

You're more than welcome to bring a turkey to my house, precooked of course, and vamoose the AO.

Until that happens, a baked ham will be good enough in my house.

Posted by: Z, no not him. A different Z at November 25, 2025 03:11 PM (89Sog)

210 Forget 501(c)(3) limitations

Islam does not deserve any First amendment protection because it is not a religion, it is a totalitarian political ideology that preaches murder.

Mosques must be taxed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 03:12 PM (A0sqA)

211 Yea, it might even be the biggest thing at this point. They are breeding us out.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 02:59 PM (iFTx/)

Far too many countries in the West are paying these -people to do nothing but have kids. Of course they're outbreeding us.

Posted by: RickZ at November 25, 2025 03:12 PM (gKDq2)

212 You are required to wear a Monocle.
Posted by: Pudinhead

I've always wanted a pickelhaube, myself.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 03:12 PM (77rzZ)

213 Taxed into oblivion.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 03:12 PM (A0sqA)

214 I can’t keep track of all the incestuous relationships… but is it Vance or Don Jr that’s good friends with Carlson?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 25, 2025 03:09 PM (/iXAp)
****
Both, but especially Vance. Although I wonder if both are rethinking their friendship.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2025 03:13 PM (NpAcC)

215 “the rule of reserved parking spaces” … if you are that important, you should be there so early in the morning that you don’t need a reserved parking space

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 03:13 PM (RHGPo)

216 Tucker Carlson comments here. Post mortem on the Nick Fuentes interview. It should have read Tucker Carlson destroys white supremacist POS Nick Fuentes in 2hr interview. But no, it was two white supremacist sit down for a 2hr interview and have chuckle together. You should watch the new interview Tucker did with Shawn Ryan. Watch it with the sound off and CC. Tucker has lost his shit.

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at November 25, 2025 03:13 PM (Lmw+Y)

217 Forever Amber kind of sounds like porn.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 03:13 PM (zZu0s)

218 151 Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix: comes in a little box that costs less than $1.00!
Canned creamed corn: adds moisture so your corn casserole isn’t dry.
Canned whole kernel corn: make sure to drain the corn before adding to the mixture.
Sour cream: adds a creamy texture.
Butter: adds richness and structure.
Eggs: binds the mixture together to form the casserole.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2025 02:59 PM


Sounds corny

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at November 25, 2025 03:13 PM (0bjKf)

219 American can be an accent if you're from somewhere else.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:11 PM (GBKbO)


But Americans LOVE to be told by some pompous ass from another country what they're supposed to like and dislike. Because Americans are stupid, you see.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:13 PM (Zz0t1)

220 164 Do you like soggy, limp, canned green beans?!

It's a little more work (which I realize negates 90% of the reason for its existence) but you can make it with fresh green beans. Just steam them to firm but not crunchy before mixing in.

And mushroom soup?!

OK, I have no good substitute for that. I mean, I'm sure it's possible to make from scratch but who would bother with that?
Posted by: Oddbob at November 25, 2025 03:01 PM (3nLb4)

Get fresh green beans, gresh mushrooms (at least 2 types) and fresh onions. Prep them all (with mushrooms and onions diced) and toss on a sheet pan in the quantities you like (my fam loves mushroom and onion, so we're 1/3, 1/3, 1/3)...toss with olive oil, salt and pepper and bake for 30 minutes at 350...more time if you make more of it. Once the bake is almost done to your liking, pull it out and toss a layer of fried onions on top and toast 5-10 more minutes.

Be wildly happy with a healthier and tastier Thanksgiving dish that gives you TEXTURE and still all the fried onions you want. Thank me later.

Also is easy for leftover storage.

Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2025 03:14 PM (tOcjL)

221 217 Forever Amber kind of sounds like porn.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 03:13 PM (zZu0s)

=====

Would have been better.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:14 PM (GBKbO)

222 Mosques must be taxed.
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I think you meant 'razed', rite?

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2025 03:14 PM (Wg6v7)

223 JD Vance better be careful because Tucker's son works for him and could sabotage him.

Like father like son?

Maybe, maybe not but no one is truly irreplaceable.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 25, 2025 03:14 PM (3nLb4)

224 ace, we need a cheery thread.

We are getting close to n people bitching and moaning that they cannot buy a good razor to cut their wrists anymore.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 03:15 PM (zZu0s)

225 JD Vance better be careful because Tucker's son works for him and could sabotage him.

Like father like son?
Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2025 03:06 PM (NpAcC)

Well, remember. JD is probably the next candidate. Trump has only one term, is in his 80's and won't budge off his principles. JD is seen as being maleable, still.
SO any attack on JD-world may get him to stop being like Trump, and move MAGA into something more acceptable. More like traditional GOP values.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 03:15 PM (rbvCR)

226
In the video, she posed in a gray t-shirt, jeans, and brown boots, looking far slimmer than the public has ever seen her.
Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025

Looks like a revenge body to me. Remember her birthday dinner with Barack and she looked bloated and awful? I noted at the time I hoped she wasn’t sick. Looking back, she was probably suffering from the side effects of ozempic or ozempic like drugs. She has that drawn look even after the plastic surgery clean up effort.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2025 03:15 PM (Wmg4n)

227 207 born into the second richest family in America
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 03:11 PM (uWKK

golly

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 03:15 PM (RuTUS)

228 You may find it hard to build a coalition if you move to destroy everyone who disagrees with you."

I have absolutely zero need to build a coalition with Candace Owens, who is undergoing a psychotic break and seeing Pepe le Pew hunting her from behind every bush; or with Tucker who now says he hates Republicans and yes, he added the Conservative movement in general, go watch it, it's on youtube somewhere; or that sick little faggot Fuentes, who now is inviting the Far Left to join him in tearing down modern society so that it will be easier to kill all the Jews.

Yeah that's a wonderful trio of hero's the woke right has got.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 03:15 PM (uWKK8)

229 Tucker Carlson comments here.

good I hope he knows I've disliked him - and worse - since spring of 2020

some of us were on to him quicker than others

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 03:16 PM (emBoF)

230 You are required to wear a Monocle.
Posted by: Pudinhead

I've always wanted a pickelhaube, myself. - Bulg

No reason you can't wear both. And don't forget the artificial dueling scar (unless you have a real one, in which case, never mind).

Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2025 03:16 PM (mADJX)

231 217 Forever Amber kind of sounds like porn.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 03:13 PM (zZu0s)

Or like a Bond movie.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 03:16 PM (RuTUS)

232 >>>Texas Governor Greg Abbott declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization last week -- and CAIR, too.



Abbot is a WEF crony who has thrown open Texas to every Muslim and Indian immigrant that wants to come there. Look how many Texas tax dollars find their way to Muslim "charities" while they open new mosques left and right.

He has a primary challenger and is up for reelection. This means next to nothing.

Posted by: brak at November 25, 2025 03:16 PM (jGJov)

233 Looking back, she was probably suffering from the side effects of ozempic or ozempic like drugs. She has that drawn look even after the plastic surgery clean up effort.
Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2025 03:15 PM (Wmg4n)


It's tough out there for a poor, oppressed black woman swinging a dick between her legs.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:16 PM (Zz0t1)

234 Tucker's mission is obviously just the same as Paul Ryan's was coming into 2018 - to get a Dem majority in the House so that the entire last 2 years of Trump's Presidency will be wasted fighting endless Impeachment battles.

I've been saying that he is far more dangerous and destructive than Bill Kristol ever thought about being.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 03:09 PM (uWKK
********
Yes he is.
Probably will be pleased if Gavin Newsom wins.
He loves the power of destruction he wields.
He's becoming George Soros.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2025 03:17 PM (NpAcC)

235 I have a blowtorch.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:02 PM

As is right and proper.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 25, 2025 03:17 PM (Wnv9h)

236
And mushroom soup?!

OK, I have no good substitute for that. I mean, I'm sure it's possible to make from scratch but who would bother with that?
Posted by: Oddbob at November 25, 2025

I do! Will post next thread.

Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2025 03:17 PM (Wmg4n)

237 227 207 born into the second richest family in America


the unseen hands of families like his - this entire elite - they think they rule us. maybe they do.

they play with us like we're toys.

I think it's ending, and soon.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 03:17 PM (emBoF)

238 229 Tucker Carlson comments here.

good I hope he knows I've disliked him - and worse - since spring of 2020

some of us were on to him quicker than others
Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 03:16 PM (emBoF)

Yes, we were - he followed the Deep State's grifter/useful paid idiot pattern...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2025 03:17 PM (tOcjL)

239 ace, we need a cheery thread.

We are getting close to n people bitching and moaning that they cannot buy a good razor to cut their wrists anymore.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 03:15 PM (zZu0s)

We can help.

Posted by: Western Razor (As Seen On 'Gutfeld!') at November 25, 2025 03:18 PM (gKDq2)

240 I bet Piper makes a mean kale pie for Thanksgiving.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 03:18 PM (77rzZ)

241 Forever Amber kind of sounds like porn.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 03:13 PM (zZu0s)

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"NO YELLOW!"

/This is like a cross and a silver bullet to Hunter Biden.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 25, 2025 03:19 PM (beXRF)

242 Only ever saw his shows on YouTube, haven't even done that in years. He can go sit on a cactus for all I care

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 03:19 PM (+qU29)

243 Or like a Bond movie.
Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 03:16 PM (RuTUS)

You know, im kind of surprised more porn did not go the Bond route? Maybe more complicated than it needed to be?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 03:19 PM (zZu0s)

244 220 Get fresh green beans, gresh mushrooms (at least 2 types) and fresh onions. Prep them all (with mushrooms and onions diced) and toss on a sheet pan in the quantities you like (my fam loves mushroom and onion, so we're 1/3, 1/3, 1/3)...toss with olive oil, salt and pepper and bake for 30 minutes at 350...more time if you make more of it. Once the bake is almost done to your liking, pull it out and toss a layer of fried onions on top and toast 5-10 more minutes.

Be wildly happy with a healthier and tastier Thanksgiving dish that gives you TEXTURE and still all the fried onions you want.
Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2025 03:14 PM (tOcjL)

I might try this, but on the stovetop.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 03:19 PM (RuTUS)

245 I bet Piper makes a mean kale pie for Thanksgiving.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 03:18 PM (77rzZ)

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With carrots.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 25, 2025 03:20 PM (beXRF)

246 137 So now its a food thread?
Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 02:57 PM

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Check the calendar.

Posted by: They're all food threads now at November 25, 2025 03:20 PM (tkslY)

247 Yeah that's a wonderful trio of hero's the woke right has got.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 03:15 PM (uWKK

Yep, and they have followers. Lots of them.

Oh, hey, let's tell them to go eat cake, that will shut them up and keep them from voting against our side.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 03:20 PM (rbvCR)

248 oh gosh I'm actually really cheery! finishing up some work-work before the holiday and the kids are home and hopefully all goes well - larger turkey this year than usual. I pushed hard for a backup ham!

it's actually a time when we honestly can step away a bit from hardcore politics. it's too early to worry about the midterms.

but still, it's good to push the Rs on important issues as much as we possibly can! they definitely need the pushing.

and Tucker Carlson is a weasel

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 03:21 PM (emBoF)

249 IMHO Wilkinson makes the best Gillette style double edge razor. Gillette is not so good anymore.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 03:21 PM (rbvCR)

250 Time for a bit of cleansing........


https://is.gd/oa1aHm

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:21 PM (Zz0t1)

251 236 And mushroom soup?!

OK, I have no good substitute for that. I mean, I'm sure it's possible to make from scratch but who would bother with that?
Posted by: Oddbob at November 25, 2025

I do! Will post next thread.
Posted by: Piper at November 25, 2025 03:17 PM (Wmg4n)

... which we will turn into a Thanksgiving food thread!

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 03:21 PM (RuTUS)

252 Sock OFF

Posted by: Operator Error at November 25, 2025 03:21 PM (rGPrJ)

253 244 220 Get fresh green beans, gresh mushrooms (at least 2 types) and fresh onions. Prep them all (with mushrooms and onions diced) and toss on a sheet pan in the quantities you like (my fam loves mushroom and onion, so we're 1/3, 1/3, 1/3)...toss with olive oil, salt and pepper and bake for 30 minutes at 350...more time if you make more of it. Once the bake is almost done to your liking, pull it out and toss a layer of fried onions on top and toast 5-10 more minutes.

Be wildly happy with a healthier and tastier Thanksgiving dish that gives you TEXTURE and still all the fried onions you want.
Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2025 03:14 PM (tOcjL)

I might try this, but on the stovetop.
Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 03:19 PM (RuTUS)

If you go stovetop, I'd toast the fried onions in a separate pan and then top vs trying to do it in the pan (hard to toast from the top in a pan)...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2025 03:21 PM (tOcjL)

254 bet Piper makes a mean kale pie for Thanksgiving.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 03:18 PM (77rzZ)
********
I'm making a Kale salad with poppyseed dressing,
Dried cranberries, raisins, walnuts and croutons.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2025 03:21 PM (NpAcC)

255 Kale pie? For Thanksgiving.

Just throw all the food directly in the toilet, you retards.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 03:21 PM (zZu0s)

256 Oddbob, my homemade cream of mushroom soup is soup stock, real cheese, sour cream, diced mushrooms, herbs. Easy and healthy.

But I'm excited to see your version Piper in the next thread!

I learned how to make it in my strict keto era since I couldn't have added wheat. Can find similar recipes under "crack chicken" just with a thinner broth.

Posted by: LizLem at November 25, 2025 03:21 PM (gWBY1)

257 Heh, the rest of the days posts will be undern00ds.
Posted by: banana Dream

Undernood?

https://shorturl.at/oJ1AJ

I prefer underboob.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at November 25, 2025 03:22 PM (JCZqz)

258 Yeah, I'm not buying the "...but when you criticize people who want to be with you they inevitably leave..." arguments for Tucker and Candace Ovens and Fuentes. You can't "be with us" once you start speaking glowingly of the Third Reich or assert that many of our problems are caused by World Jewry. Their is no "us" when it comes to statements like that, and so those folks don't actually want to "be with us", they're actually out to join or hurt us.

Posted by: Crusader at November 25, 2025 03:22 PM (TN0g+)

259 244 220 Get fresh green beans, gresh mushrooms (at least 2 types) and fresh onions. Prep them all (with mushrooms and onions diced) and toss on a sheet pan in the quantities you like (my fam loves mushroom and onion, so we're 1/3, 1/3, 1/3)...toss with olive oil, salt and pepper and bake for 30 minutes at 350...more time if you make more of it. Once the bake is almost done to your liking, pull it out and toss a layer of fried onions on top and toast 5-10 more minutes.


that sounds really nice! I can't spare the oven tho

just steaming green beans like normal and maybe grilling them really quickly after

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 03:22 PM (emBoF)

260 247 Yeah that's a wonderful trio of hero's the woke right has got.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 03:15 PM (uWKK

Yep, and they have followers. Lots of them.

Oh, hey, let's tell them to go eat cake, that will shut them up and keep them from voting against our side.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 03:20 PM (rbvCR)

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How many of their followers are American?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:22 PM (GBKbO)

261 ... which we will turn into a Thanksgiving food thread!
Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 03:21 PM (RuTUS)

Considering ace's metier today, it'll probably be able Islamic child rape gangs and how there's nothing we can do about them.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 03:23 PM (zZu0s)

262 Nood dead doge

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 25, 2025 03:23 PM (QVmho)

263 Remember, Fuentes said in September of last year that he was going to Michigan to ensure Trump lost.

Trump won Michigan last year.

Maybe Fuentes isn't actually any kind of electoral force? Evidence indicates he's not.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:23 PM (GBKbO)

264 If you go stovetop, I'd toast the fried onions in a separate pan and then top vs trying to do it in the pan (hard to toast from the top in a pan)...
Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2025 03:21 PM (tOcjL)

Will do!

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 03:23 PM (RuTUS)

265 Noon. Nood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 03:24 PM (zZu0s)

266 Whoops I meant "cream cheese" not "real cheese."

Posted by: LizLem at November 25, 2025 03:24 PM (gWBY1)

267 258 Yeah, I'm not buying the "...but when you criticize people who want to be with you they inevitably leave..." arguments for Tucker and Candace Ovens and Fuentes. You can't "be with us" once you start speaking glowingly of the Third Reich or assert that many of our problems are caused by World Jewry. Their is no "us" when it comes to statements like that, and so those folks don't actually want to "be with us", they're actually out to join or hurt us.
Posted by: Crusader at November 25, 2025 03:22 PM (TN0g+)

See Mike Johnson for how to speak and be with us. It's why McCarthy and MTG hate him...that's this week's Op - to try to topple the speaker b/c of all the retirements supposedly coming. That's why MTG is going out when she is...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2025 03:24 PM (tOcjL)

268 ^^^^ "....they're actually out to change or hurt us."

Posted by: Crusader at November 25, 2025 03:24 PM (TN0g+)

269 Started watching Forever Amber but on the YouTube video I was watching comments said volume was poor in spots

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 03:24 PM (+qU29)

270 262 Nood dead doge
Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 25, 2025 03:23 PM (QVmho)

Food thread!

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 03:25 PM (RuTUS)

271 269 Started watching Forever Amber but on the YouTube video I was watching comments said volume was poor in spots

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 03:24 PM (+qU29)

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There's one video on YouTube of the film that drops the audio for like 30 seconds at a time. No idea why.

There's another that doesn't do that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:25 PM (GBKbO)

272 >>> Forever Amber kind of sounds like porn.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 03:13 PM (zZu0s)


Or a Zelazny compilation.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 03:25 PM (3uBP9)

273 259 244 220 Get fresh green beans, gresh mushrooms (at least 2 types) and fresh onions. Prep them all (with mushrooms and onions diced) and toss on a sheet pan in the quantities you like (my fam loves mushroom and onion, so we're 1/3, 1/3, 1/3)...toss with olive oil, salt and pepper and bake for 30 minutes at 350...more time if you make more of it. Once the bake is almost done to your liking, pull it out and toss a layer of fried onions on top and toast 5-10 more minutes.


that sounds really nice! I can't spare the oven tho

just steaming green beans like normal and maybe grilling them really quickly after
Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 03:22 PM (emBoF)

2nd rack for the win. And if you don't have that, this will finish in 35-40 minutes - since a turkey rests 30 and then gets cut, this comes out piping hot right as the turkey is sliced...

You can also probably precook the veg early in the day and then bake 10 minutes with the fried onion to rewarm it up. I've done that with a few veg, and it should work with this one.

Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2025 03:25 PM (tOcjL)

274 TJM watched all of 2nd Japanese film maker and no Samurais yet

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 03:28 PM (+qU29)

275 On thing always try to do on a long YouTube video is read comments to find if good or bad

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 03:29 PM (+qU29)

276
But Americans LOVE to be told by some pompous ass from another country what they're supposed to like and dislike.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 03:13 PM (Zz0t1)


US:
Invented the mass-produced automobile
Invented telephone
Invented internet
Invented cell phones
Invented the light bulb
Invented air conditioning
Invented air travel
Invented disease-resistant wheat, saving at least a billion lives from starvation

Europe:
Invented the tourist trap (thanks, Gustave Eiffel)
Invented squeekhole dorking (thanks, Greece)
Invented the pickelhaube (thanks, Prussia)
Invented concrete (thanks, Rome), then promptly forgot how to make it.

*continued*

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 25, 2025 03:31 PM (y9nCu)

277 275 On thing always try to do on a long YouTube video is read comments to find if good or bad
Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 03:29 PM (+qU29)

I sometimes do that at the first glitch.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 03:31 PM (RuTUS)

278
Asia:
Invented sushi (thanks, Japan)
Invented the used panty vending machine (again, thanks Japan)
Invented genocide (thanks, Genghis)
Invented the ventilated open-air public transportation toilet (also known as "shitting in the middle of the street")

Central and South America:
Invented the taco
Invented the quesadilla
Invented the burrito
Invented the sombrero

The mohammedans
Invented....
.
.
okay, I'm still thinking.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 25, 2025 03:31 PM (y9nCu)

279 Yep. I don't have any real dealings with the UK anymore and should I need to travel to Europe in the future for any reason, I will NOT be traveling through there. I'll go through France or The Netherlands first.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 02:42 PM

Good luck with France. They're equally as conquered as the UK, especially Paris. Not sure of the status of the Islamic conquest in the Netherlands.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 25, 2025 03:31 PM (P5BPp)

280 Nihad Awad is so civil and explains things so clearly.
Why aren't they doing something like this at my church?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 25, 2025 03:33 PM (P9xGM)

281 'Forever Amber' was the book the nanny was reading in a Tweety & Sylvester cartoon. Must have been racy reading as the nanny was gasping and tsk-tsking.

Posted by: Dick the Bruiser at November 25, 2025 03:33 PM (5IH8V)

282 Invented the pickelhaube (thanks, Prussia)

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Was that the original pickleball?

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 25, 2025 03:33 PM (VDaQm)

283
There's one video on YouTube of the film that drops the audio for like 30 seconds at a time. No idea why.

There's another that doesn't do that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 03:25 PM (GBKbO)


I think it's to avoid being demonetized.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 25, 2025 03:34 PM (y9nCu)

284 “Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday designated the Muslim Brotherhood and the Muslim civil rights group Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as "foreign terrorist" and "transnational criminal" organizations.“

It matters because I GET TO BE ON FOX NEWS!!!

Posted by: Gov. Greg Abbott at November 25, 2025 03:34 PM (6KcYW)

285 Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday designated the Muslim Brotherhood and the Muslim civil rights group Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as "foreign terrorist" and "transnational criminal" organizations.“

It matters because I GET TO BE ON FOX NEWS!!!
Posted by: Gov. Greg Abbott at November 25, 2025 03:34 PM (6KcYW)
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Be happy we have Greg Abbott and not Governor Newsom.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2025 03:39 PM (NpAcC)

286 reporting now that Sen John Fetterman is taking reins from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 03:42 PM (RHGPo)

287 Yeah, goodbye freedoms of speech in UK. Hope you enjoyed it while you had it.

Posted by: LizLem at November 25, 2025 02:42 PM

People mock the UK and Europe overall as if things are much better here in the United States. Had Elon Musk not bought Twitter and created X, we'd be under a Kamala Harris Administration right now and headed down the path of Europe.

As it is, we're still headed down that path, just slower, since the 2024 election of President Trump has delayed the fall.

But the nation's institutions are still captured by the Left, the Deep State still infects the government at every level, the Left still controls the media, social media, Hollywood and schools/universities and Islam is slowly conquering more and more areas of the country.

It is frightening to realize that were it not for Donald Trump in 2015 deciding to run for President, this country would be much closer to the tyrannical state of Europe.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 25, 2025 03:45 PM (P5BPp)

288 Bring back the formal Baccalaureate Ceremony where you are required to profess what you have learned, in Latin, before you graduate

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 03:50 PM (RHGPo)

289 Not sure of the status of the Islamic conquest in the Netherlands.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 25, 2025 03:31 PM (P5BPp)

Brothels with women are harem.

Posted by: RickZ at November 25, 2025 03:53 PM (gKDq2)

290 ************
Be happy we have Greg Abbott and not Governor Newsom.
Posted by: redridinghood
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Give some people a ham sandwich and they bitch because they don't like the dressing. bah

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 25, 2025 04:39 PM (P9xGM)

GOP Worries About Midterms "Wipeout"

I think we're all a little worried.


GOP lawmakers are growing increasingly concerned over signs the 2026 midterm elections could be a wipeout for Republicans that could cost them control of the House and shave down their Senate majority by two or three seats.

Republican senators say the off-year elections in New Jersey, Virginia and other parts of the country on Nov. 4 served as a wake-up call and warn that President Trump and Republican leaders in Congress need to address voters' concerns about the slowing economy and persistently high prices.

Republicans acknowledge that rising health insurance premiums, the issue Democrats want to put front-and-center in the election year, along with health care costs, more generally, are a major problem for their party.

There's growing anxiety in the Senate and House GOP conferences that Trump's sinking approval rating will create a headwind in swing states and districts.

But GOP lawmakers say they still have time to improve their party's image before next November.

They argue Democrats' failure to come up with effective solutions to rein in health care costs and the rising power of far-left Democratic candidates gives them a chance to cling onto power in Washington.

"If we are where we are today in the beginning of the second quarter [of 2026], then I think we're in for a really rough time in November," warned retiring Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), who represents a Senate battleground state Democrats are targeting next year.

"We have plenty of time to address it. There's a lot of positive things that we're doing here, that the administration is doing. But if you mess with health care ... if we don't get health care policy right, if we don't get some of the cost policies right, we're going to have major headwinds next year," he said.

Most concerning for GOP lawmakers is Trump's approval rating, which has sunk to 41.9 percent in the most recent polling average compiled by Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ). The president's disapproval rating has climbed to 55.7 percent.

Another disquieting sign is that Democrats now have their biggest lead of the election cycle on the generic ballot for Congress. The latest DDHQ average shows Democrats beating Republicans 46.8 percent to 41.4 percent on the generic ballot.

That's a 5.4% lead. The Democrats had an 8% lead when they won the midterms in 2018.

We're not there yet but we are getting there.

One Republican senator who attended a recent GOP conference meeting at the National Republican Senatorial Committee headquarters said concerns about the approaching election year are "high."

"The numbers are terrible," the lawmaker said. "Not necessarily for any individual incumbent senator, although some of them aren't very good. But you saw what happened a couple weeks ago [on Nov. 4]: Republicans didn't win anything anywhere."

And the problem continues to be that Trump attracted a lot of blue collar voters who, unfortunately, are not likely voters and who also do not show up to vote for other Republicans. They like Trump, seeing him as a different kind of Republican who appeals to union hall Democrats, but they do not like other Republicans, and Trump has never been able to convince them to vote for other Republicans.

I don't think he tries hard enough. I think he has to make the case, in a major national campaign, that it is absolutely necessary for Trump's personal political fortunes that he doesn't have a Congress controlled by "lunatic left-wing Democrats" impeaching him every five minutes like he did from 2019-2020.

Below, Harry Enten discusses Trump's very high level of support in the GOP itself, but he's slipping with independents.

I hear more and more complaints, including from actual Republicans, that inflation is still high. The assumption people have continues to be that prices should fall back to what they had been. As I keep saying, we can't have prices fall without actual deflation, which the Fed would never allow to happen, because the downsides of deflation are too high. (People stop investing because their money is already appreciating in value if they just hoard it under the bed.)

Maybe Trump has to give a national address -- he really should give some of these from time to time -- to readjust public's expectations about prices actually falling. They won't fall. It will never happen. Inflation will be beaten when the rate of inflation slows to 2% per year. People waiting for prices to fall will be waiting forever.

Kurt Schlicter noticed the blue mood of conservatives, and wrote a column to cheer us up.

Welcome to the doldrums, the period of problems, the phase of foul-ups, the time of the sucking. And it does suck. Everything seems to be going wrong for Republicans right now. We were flying high a few weeks ago, when Donald Trump negotiated the end of the Gaza War, and then it was all downhill. Lost elections, economic uncertainty, Epstein file stupidity, fear that the conservative movement will tear itself apart over people who aren't even conservative, and Marjorie Taylor Greene's face all over our social media feeds. Yeah, it's bad. You're at the top one day, then the next day you're at the bottom.

But we've been around the block before. We've done this a few times. Most of us reading this and watching what's going on have seen this story arc play out in the past. You start out strong, you go hard for a while, and then the problems pop up. That's the way of every human endeavor. Nothing is perfect, and the inevitable imperfections build up until they threaten to stop your progress and must be dealt with. It's particularly exaggerated in the case of Trump 2.0. Why? Because Trump 2.0 has been so massively successful. Go back just six months. It was win after win after win. We shut down the border. We took out Iran's nuclear program. DOGE was purging timeservers and non-hackers. We were kicking over the feed troughs at USAID and elsewhere. Freaking PBS was dead. Sure, there were obstacles, but the pinkos were not going to just give up their power politely merely because the voters rejected them. It was awesome.

Yet, it is the comparison with those dizzying heights that makes the current depths look so much more bottomless. They're not. The conservative movement/MAGA/America First/Whatever You Call It is unlikely to crack up because Tucker Carlson has cracked up. The affordability crisis is unlikely to persist all the way to the next elections. And those elections are not necessarily going to be a massive defeat. But it sometimes seems like those things are inevitable because it's so miserable right now.

...

The economy may remain stubbornly bad, or stubbornly perceived as bad, but we've been to this rodeo before. Ronald Reagan took a couple of years to turn things around, but when he did, there was an enormous boom. Donald Trump took a couple of years to turn things around during 1.0, but when he did, there was an enormous boom. Are you seeing a pattern of what happens when conservative policies are put in place? Sure, we have the tariffs wildcard, but we haven't seen tariffs driving up inflation the way we were promised by the critics. The inflation rate is down. That's undeniable, and it's beginning to manifest in certain products.

For you Youngs, the analogue I'm looking at is also Reagan. Paul Volcker raised interest rates sky-high in the beginning of Reagan's term to end the very high inflation rate. The economy sunk into a very deep depression. Those who remember Reagan as presiding over a booming economy didn't live through 1981-82, when the economy was the worst it had been in decades -- and even worse than it was under Jimmy Carter.

The feeling of depression resulted in a bunch of movies about the economy. Mr. Mom, for example, is about an auto worker laid off from the then-collapsing US auto industry.

Anyway, Reagan got his bad news out of the way early, setting up one of the greatest economic expansions beginning in 1983.

So I've been watching the economy looking for signs of a big turn. Trump had one in his first term. It was like magic -- Obama out, Trump in, and the economy started growing.

But that's not happening now. Or, rather, yes, there is some improvement, but it's a subtle improvement that voters can ignore, and based on Trump's slipping approval, they seem to be ignoring it now. Reagan I and Trump I had big enough economic expansions that voters couldn't ignore it, and even when Reagan's 1984 opponent Walter Mondale tried to deny it, they rejected that denial as delusional.

(Mondale ran ads asking rhetorically, "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?" His suggested answer was "No," but the country answered "Hell to the yeah we're better off" and delivered Reagan every single state in 1984. Supposedly Mondale won his home state of Minnesota but there have been credible allegations that that state was stolen and Reagan just didn't challenge it because he won the other 49 and could afford to be generous.)

So I keep waiting for the Trump II turn. I keep hoping it will come in time for the midterms, but that seems like increasingly unlikely.

It doesn't help, of course, that Fed Chair Powell is determined to tank the economy, because he's mad that Trump is putting tariffs on the foreign imports so beloved of the Capital Class and wants to prove to the country that tariffs are bad. So he's doing what he can to harm the economy so that people think the problem was the tariffs.

Posted by: Ace at 01:23 PM




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1 Maybe they should consider resigning in the middle of the term.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 01:23 PM (ExV1e)

2 Nooded.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 01:24 PM (ExV1e)

3 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 01:24 PM (Zz0t1)

4 349 (Warning: do NOT do this. Now I want to search for turkey fryer fails.)
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The "Porch Pirate fails" with the exploding packaging are good fun for a minute or two as well.
Posted by: Crusader at November 25, 2025 01:15 PM (TN0g+)

Only thing wrong with that is the packages don't spray hydrofluoric acid.

Posted by: Porch pirates must suffer at November 25, 2025 01:25 PM (TbWk/)

5 Voters to prove once again they're stupid and most shouldn't be trusted with the privilege of voting.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 01:25 PM (Zz0t1)

6
Send the GOPeto Haiti and let the leadwr known as BBQ sort them out.

Now it's another food thread.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 25, 2025 01:25 PM (QVmho)

7 The Democrats shit all over the new beige rug, walked all over it and ground the shit into the carpet fibers and are now criticizing you for not cleaning the rug to pristine condition fast enough.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at November 25, 2025 01:26 PM (ssz2a)

8 Republican senators say the off-year elections in New Jersey, Virginia and other parts of the country on Nov. 4 served as a wake-up call and warn that President Trump and Republican leaders in Congress need to address voters' concerns about the slowing economy and persistently high prices.


And voting for the party that CAUSED THAT IN THE FIRST PLACE is a GRAND idea.......

We're too stupid to survive as a country.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 01:26 PM (Zz0t1)

9 Willowed:

We saw this last week:

"SISU: The Road to Vengeance" - a fun, whip-smart roller coaster ride of an action movie.
You don't need to see the first one to enjoy it.
BONUS: This time around he kills tons of Commies/

"Keeper" - I had high hope for this as I like what Osgood Perkins has been doing lately. And higher hopes 45-50 minutes in, buuuuuuut then it failed on the expolanation and lost me, a drag to the end.


TV Show:

"Last Samarai Standing" - very fun version of Squid Game (kinda) set in old Japan. Great action, great hero, well-done bad guys. It's streaming on Netflix. Check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 25, 2025 01:26 PM (iJfKG)

10 The republican party is adrift in a sewer of corruption and back biting. There's weak leadership at all levels.

Posted by: Jeff E at November 25, 2025 01:27 PM (ZZTuE)

11 We had 50 resignations in 2018

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 01:27 PM (E0p3T)

12 If the GOPe is worried, maybe they should start to pass some of the MAGA agenda to get voters back on board.... I typed that without laughing out loud and it was hard.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at November 25, 2025 01:27 PM (xvV+O)

13 If you or your partner are bothered by a hairy enten, consult a dermatologist.

Posted by: Public Service Announcement at November 25, 2025 01:27 PM (wq6Zu)

14 When was the last time the midterms DIDN'T swing the opposite way of the previous general election?

Isn't it, like, de rigueur?

Posted by: zombie at November 25, 2025 01:27 PM (oraVG)

15 Mondale ran ads asking rhetorically, "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?"


I thought that was Reagan in 1980?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 01:27 PM (77rzZ)

16 GOP Worries About Midterms "Wipeout"

And other surf music.

Posted by: Profitable Ventures at November 25, 2025 01:28 PM (TbWk/)

17 "The numbers We are terrible," the lawmaker said.

FIFH.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 25, 2025 01:28 PM (3nLb4)

18 I don't think he tries hard enough. I think he has to make the case, in a major national campaign, that it is absolutely necessary for Trump's personal political fortunes that he doesn't have a Congress controlled by "lunatic left-wing Democrats" impeaching him every five minutes like he did from 2019-2020.
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What are you thinking, maybe something like a big, televised show, with various stars and conservative speakers, a "convention" if you will, in the summer of 2028?

IDK, might work.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 01:28 PM (T3zUV)

19 If the GOP allows the Donks to Pounce and Seize on the "high cost of everything" narrative without effectively pointing out that it was Obama and later Biden that caused it all to go to hell, they're worse than useless.

But we all know how this is going to end up.

Posted by: ballistic at November 25, 2025 01:28 PM (3BwY8)

20 Trump has been in office for 10 months.... If it's gonna be as bad as predicted for 2026, the Senate better end the filibuster and get as much passed as possible....

Posted by: It's me donna at November 25, 2025 01:29 PM (VE6XX)

21 They like Trump, seeing him as a different kind of Republican who appeals to union hall Democrats, but they do not like other Republicans, and Trump has never been able to convince them to vote for other Republicans.

Other Republicans have never tried to convince them to vote for other Republicans.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 01:29 PM (ExV1e)

22 The COVID Op wrecked a lot of things and then printing 6 trillion dollars and basically enshitifying everything for the four miserable years of The Biden Residency has left us in a very tenuous predicament.

Add to the fact that the GOP is a useless pile of dog shit and it's a small miracle that Trump has had any success.

Our main problem is the GOP and I don't know how to fix that glitch.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 25, 2025 01:29 PM (XV/Pl)

23 They argue Democrats' failure to come up with effective solutions to rein in health care costs and the rising power of far-left Democratic candidates gives them a chance to cling onto power in Washington.


"The Democrats crammed the ACA down America's throat. They baked in the cake a tax subsidy expiration that would cause the cost of healthcare to SKYROCKET without TAXPAYER FUNDED policies. Not cheap healthcare. Not even GOOD healthcare. TAXPAYER FUNDED. Referred to by Democrats as "free healthcare." Stop putting your faith and your vote into snake oil salesmen that fail you every time."

Seems a simple campaign to have.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 01:29 PM (Zz0t1)

24 You know who hates the Donks? Senator Reuben Gallego (D-AZ).

https://is.gd/JrvGO3

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 01:29 PM (L/fGl)

25 Think I'll go with premade mashed potatoes from the deli and hope nobody notices.

Posted by: wth at November 25, 2025 01:29 PM (v0R5T)

26 Maybe a brewing civil war will lighten the mood? At least take everyone's minds off the midterms and inflation.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2025 01:29 PM (NwnyJ)

27 To further Ace's point, a local elected law enforcement officer in a county won by Trump in 2024 signed up for a program with ICE to assist ICE by informing ICE of illegals in custody who were charged with crimes (I'm simplifying but this is the idea). It became a prime issue in the 2025 municipal elections. The issue actually polled well with people, but Republicans up and down the ballot got wiped out. You would think that this would have encouraged Trump voters to come out to the polls and HELP THE GODDAMNED PRESIDENT CARRY OUT HIS PRIMARY POLICY GUARANTEE. But no, they voted a year ago and were satisfied to retreat to the cocoon of college football or whatever.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at November 25, 2025 01:29 PM (ssz2a)

28 13 If you or your partner are bothered by a hairy enten, consult a dermatologist.
Posted by: Public Service Announcement at November 25, 2025 01:27 PM (wq6Zu)

Forestry service. Or a logging company.

Posted by: Shave that treebeard at November 25, 2025 01:29 PM (TbWk/)

29 Also Thom Tillis is a faggot and you should take everything he suggests and do literally the opposite.

Posted by: ballistic at November 25, 2025 01:29 PM (3BwY8)

30 The economy has "slowed" from 1.7% GDP growth to over 4% GDP growth.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at November 25, 2025 01:30 PM (xvV+O)

31 Rents falling. Inflation keeps coming in below wage gains. Hell, home prices seem to be falling in certain places.

And GDP is growing at 4% or more.

While we deport shit tons of people, so many that we're actually going to lose population as a whole. (Mass deportation is deflationary...just like mass importation of a population is inflationary)

But, oh no...beef prices, driven by admin decisions 3 years ago to limit beef supplies. Panic, and feed the panic.

The economy is actually in good shape, but people want outright deflation. Which I would be fine with. But Trump says the goal is 1% inflation which, combined with wage growth, will be very healthy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:30 PM (GBKbO)

32 12 If the GOPe is worried, maybe they should start to pass some of the MAGA agenda to get voters back on board.... I typed that without laughing out loud and it was hard.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at November 25, 2025 01:27 PM (xvV+O)

Until Congress accomplishes it primary Job, of regular order spending bills... none of the congress critters in office should retain office.

Why rehire ya if you can't do the damn job?

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 01:30 PM (mP0Kj)

33 Round em up
Head em out
Rawhide...
Trump should go full on crazy and just use the military to lock everyone up . The Dems ignore the law anyway so Fug Em.Jusr go through every sitting Dems record. If they broke the law
Lock Em Up.
We don't need no steenking judges!!

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at November 25, 2025 01:30 PM (VPPG8)

34 The wheels are closing in
The walls are coming off

Posted by: And the fat lady is circling the drain! at November 25, 2025 01:30 PM (wq6Zu)

35 Mondale ran ads asking rhetorically, "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?"


I thought that was Reagan in 1980?
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 01:27 PM (77rzZ)


If only there was this vast place of knowledge that could be searched in an instant to find answers to questions.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 01:30 PM (Zz0t1)

36
Seems a simple campaign to have.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 01:29 PM (Zz0t1)

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You must be new to this whole politics thing.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at November 25, 2025 01:30 PM (ssz2a)

37 It's not only the rate vs time value. But we are all under a giant deficit due to the higher costs in the past. So yeah, if the rate was zero, then all the costs would still be higher. But even if there was a major depression and all the costs nose dived back to 2010 levels, we still aren't getting back our sunk overpaid costs. Integrate the curve.

I was in a company-wide meeting with a high up exec and they had the typical stupid question and answer session after all the "GO TEAM" part. A guy asked about wage increases in light of the cost of living going up. And that mfer, in a room full of engineers, said well the rates are slowing down so that won't be needed.

You sob, do you even math? Integrate that curve and then come back to me.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 01:31 PM (3uBP9)

38 Thom Tillis? He's the source? Seriously? I wouldn't wipe my ass with anything he says. My asshole deserves much better.

This is 99% leftwing ops trying to demoralize us and push a few more GOP drip-dicks out of Congress. As I have said, I do have my worries about getting our people to the polls.

"Trump's sinking approval rating" -- bullshit, he's actually up a few points in the latest polls. Whenever you hear "Trump's sinking approval rating," you should guard your wallet. His rating has been "sinking" for so long he should be at zero by now.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 01:31 PM (iFTx/)

39 30 The economy has "slowed" from 1.7% GDP growth to over 4% GDP growth.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at November 25, 2025 01:30 PM (xvV+O)

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The problem is that the media keeps pumping out stories about how the economy isn't good because we didn't add enough jobs to keep up with population growth (while we're actually losing population because deportations are so aggressive and multi-faceted).

So...people buy into it. People who shouldn't buy into it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:31 PM (GBKbO)

40 The GOP isn't what Trump Voters voted for. We voted for Trump. The GOP gave us Mitt Romney. The GOP gave us Islam bombing our country and George Bush mumbling about Islam being a religion of peace.

Trump gave us hope, and an America-First focus. Trump gave us a willingness to fight, and a willingness to offend (even though white church ladies collapsed to their fainting couches). Trump gave us a hard lean to smaller government.

If the GOP truly wants to win in 2026 (and 202, maybe they could watch some "game film" and see how the winning gets done.

Posted by: Crusader at November 25, 2025 01:31 PM (TN0g+)

41 At this point the Democrat battle plan seems to be firing off a stream of lies like an A-10 gun.

Posted by: MartynWW at November 25, 2025 01:32 PM (+1tao)

42 If only there was this vast place of knowledge that could be searched in an instant to find answers to questions.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 01:30 PM (Zz0t1)

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Too much work.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 01:32 PM (DRSnL)

43 There's some guy who does funny engineering videos who has these very specially designed porch pirate traps that coat them in sticky glitter and skunk stink, then flashes red and blue lights while yelling about the police. It also uploads video of the shamed porch pirates and alerts him on where to retrieve the trap.

The videos are pretty good.

Posted by: Locarno at November 25, 2025 01:32 PM (eOcfv)

44
You must be new to this whole politics thing.
Posted by: Alec Leamas at November 25, 2025 01:30 PM (ssz2a)


Yes. Where bludgeoning people with facts and the truth never works.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 01:32 PM (Zz0t1)

45 If the GOP truly wants to win in 2026 (and 202, maybe they could watch some "game film" and see how the winning gets done.

Posted by: Crusader at November 25, 2025 01:31 PM (TN0g+)
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Will you have time to watch "game film" when the Media is television Trump's third impeachment proceedings next year?

Get your head in the fucking game.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at November 25, 2025 01:33 PM (ssz2a)

46 As I keep saying, we can't have prices fall without actual deflation, which the Fed would never allow to happen, because the downsides of deflation are too high.

I grocery shop. Other than beef, prices have been quietly and steadily falling for the last couple of months.

As for the supposed downsides of deflation, those are lies as big as the lie that all tariffs are evil. Please reexamine the issue with fresh eyes.

Romney's 47% dependency rate was wrong because it did not so much as attempt to account for the massive graft that DOGE has brought to light.

Posted by: biteme at November 25, 2025 01:33 PM (xWS9V)

47 HELP THE GODDAMNED PRESIDENT CARRY OUT HIS PRIMARY POLICY GUARANTEE. But no, they voted a year ago and were satisfied to retreat to the cocoon of college football or whatever.
Posted by: Alec Leamas at November 25, 2025 01:29 PM (ssz2a)

With the fairly low turnout for the Calif Prop 50 crap, there were enough Repub and Conservative voters to vote it down... if they had bothered to fill in the Mail in Ballot they were all sent.

That is, if the count was even valid, which I have my doubts about.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 01:33 PM (mP0Kj)

48 Ok, I'm just gonna toss this out there.

If you're invited to someone's house for Thanksgiving, can you just show up with cole slaw?

Posted by: Don't shoot me at November 25, 2025 01:33 PM (wq6Zu)

49 in general the govt class are unified in waiting out PDJT. this is the problem.

so in states like PA, we are improving in a LOT of areas (energy is a big one) but gas prices remain high due to our ridiculous gas tax (tied to inflation so it keeps going up). which informs a lot of other prices here. PLUS our insurance costs are sky high due to having quite a lot of illegales driving around drunk still.

this is a civil war - we are in it. private folks vs the govt class. they are fighting us, tooth and nail. they won't stop.

in the end, either we collapse or we break up. I know PDJT was trying to thread the needle and I hope to hell he succeeds but it's a low percentage play.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 01:33 PM (emBoF)

50 The wipeout was built in to the system. Feature, not a bug.

Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2025 01:33 PM (Bg+2b)

51
One Republican senator who attended a recent GOP conference meeting at the National Republican Senatorial Committee headquarters said concerns about the approaching election year are "high."
"The numbers are terrible," the lawmaker said. "Not necessarily for any individual incumbent senator, although some of them aren't very good. But you saw what happened a couple weeks ago [on Nov. 4]: Republicans didn't win anything anywhere."

Maybe all y'all slack jawed grifting pieces of shit should, oh, do your fucking job and there wouldn't be an issue.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 25, 2025 01:34 PM (QVmho)

52 There's some guy who does funny engineering videos who has these very specially designed porch pirate traps that coat them in sticky glitter and skunk stink, then flashes red and blue lights while yelling about the police. It also uploads video of the shamed porch pirates and alerts him on where to retrieve the trap.

The videos are pretty good.
Posted by: Locarno at November 25, 2025 01:32 PM (eOcfv)


He was doing similar things to those robbing packages from cars in San Francisco and the police threatened to arrest him for it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 01:34 PM (Zz0t1)

53 If you're invited to someone's house for Thanksgiving, can you just show up with cole slaw?


not unless requested!!! I told everyone to just bring booze

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 01:34 PM (emBoF)

54 If only there was this vast place of knowledge that could be searched in an instant to find answers to questions.......
Posted by: Sponge

I'll just attribute that snark to the fact that you're by yourself and not sleeping well, and leave it at that.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 01:34 PM (77rzZ)

55 The Dems are just bubbling over with robust policy proposal. Far too numerous to list here.

Posted by: Oglebay at November 25, 2025 01:34 PM (GPa4z)

56
Yes. Where bludgeoning people with facts and the truth never works.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 01:32 PM (Zz0t1)
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Republicans in my county just got wiped out in a municipal election in which people were angry at the President and Republicans because the Democrats shut the government down and didn't vote to fund SNAP.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at November 25, 2025 01:34 PM (ssz2a)

57 Riddle me this. What kind of illogic tells you the way you fix the economy is to put Democrats in charge of the House? Lololol you know the people who tanked the economy for the last four years, gave your jobs to illegal immigrants, gave billions to foreign countries and their benefactors, then fired you for not taking the Covid shot. All while they corrupted the entire government and justice system to go after their enemies list.

Those Democrats? Yeah that will change things.

Posted by: Vengeance at November 25, 2025 01:34 PM (jlI90)

58 I assume that getting off their ass and doing something has been considered and rejected.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at November 25, 2025 01:35 PM (6t8M3)

59 The GOP is pure dogshit. Be prepared to be underwhelmed, fleeced, anally raped without a reach around and told they will lower your "taxes" while spending like Hunter Biden in a crackhouse up, during and after the mid-terms.

Posted by: The federal government is a swindle, a swindle at November 25, 2025 01:35 PM (R/m4+)

60 46 I grocery shop. Other than beef, prices have been quietly and steadily falling for the last couple of months.

As for the supposed downsides of deflation, those are lies as big as the lie that all tariffs are evil. Please reexamine the issue with fresh eyes.

Romney's 47% dependency rate was wrong because it did not so much as attempt to account for the massive graft that DOGE has brought to light.

Posted by: biteme at November 25, 2025 01:33 PM (xWS9V)

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Beef, like egg prices in the final months of Biden's administration, were about Ag policy. Killing hundreds of millions of chickens drove up egg prices.

Limiting beef herds 3 years ago is driving up beef prices today.

And deflation fears stem from the Great Depression. Economists have been trained to do the opposite of everything that happened in the Great Depression from a monetary policy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:35 PM (GBKbO)

61 >>> There's some guy who does funny engineering videos who has these very specially designed porch pirate traps that coat them in sticky glitter and skunk stink, then flashes red and blue lights while yelling about the police. It also uploads video of the shamed porch pirates and alerts him on where to retrieve the trap.

The videos are pretty good.
Posted by: Locarno at November 25, 2025 01:32 PM (eOcfv)



Those are real, but they were obviously used as input to train all the ai slop videos that are legion now.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 01:35 PM (3uBP9)

62 Thom Tillis is one person I would NOT listen to… he wants the GOP and Trump to fail. He’s retiring… forget him

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 25, 2025 01:35 PM (xT8gx)

63 All pundits, all analysts, all economists, all politicians and all media talking heads are absolutely full of steaming shit. No one has made an accurate prediction in decades. No one know what the fuck they're talking about.

Posted by: zombie at November 25, 2025 01:35 PM (oraVG)

64 43 There's some guy who does funny engineering videos who has these very specially designed porch pirate traps that coat them in sticky glitter and skunk stink, then flashes red and blue lights while yelling about the police. It also uploads video of the shamed porch pirates and alerts him on where to retrieve the trap.

The videos are pretty good.
Posted by: Locarno at November 25, 2025 01:32 PM

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That's Mark Rober.

Posted by: He was an engineer at NASA at November 25, 2025 01:35 PM (wq6Zu)

65
Republicans in my county just got wiped out in a municipal election in which people were angry at the President and Republicans because the Democrats shut the government down and didn't vote to fund SNAP.
Posted by: Alec Leamas at November 25, 2025 01:34 PM (ssz2a)


Stupid is a stupid does, sir.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 01:35 PM (Zz0t1)

66 We need voter ID in every state, in every election.

Posted by: iamnotthekenyaninterloper at November 25, 2025 01:36 PM (y9skt)

67 I wish the GOP wanted to win, and while I'm indulging in fantasy, I also wish they wanted to represent and support the interests of the American people.

Posted by: Emmie at November 25, 2025 01:36 PM (FMtrg)

68 It doesn't help, of course, that Fed Chair Powell is determined to tank the economy, because he's mad that Trump is putting tariffs on the foreign imports so beloved of the Capital Class and wants to prove to the country that tariffs are bad. So he's doing what he can to harm the economy so that people think the problem was the tariffs.
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This can't be emphasized enough.

Powell is been bad-mouthing the economy and lying.
He's been promising and swearing inflation from tariffs will show up "soon" for 10 months now as his monthly excuse to not lower rates.

That's why they are so desperate to hold the Fed; can't afford Powell and Ms. Fraud out--he intends to stall and choke the economy as long as he can to deliver the House to the Dems.
Without those two cronies, the Fed cuts rates.
Massive amounts of capital currently sidelined as a risk-hedge will flood into the market.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 01:36 PM (T3zUV)

69 The administration is pushing Congress too hard. Oh you poor babies. What have you done since the BBB because it’s not your jobs.

Posted by: Vengeance at November 25, 2025 01:36 PM (jlI90)

70 If you're invited to someone's house for Thanksgiving, can you just show up with cole slaw?
Posted by: Don't shoot me

If you bring a lot of it, absolutely. I would welcome you with open arms.

I love cole slaw.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 01:36 PM (77rzZ)

71 It doesn't help, of course, that Fed Chair Powell is determined to tank the economy...

- Or that the judiciary is determined to stall everything Trump does.
- Or that the states are both openly defying him and taking steps to counter any good he does.
- Or that Congress is doing nothing to codify the work he's doing.

But the people don't see/understand that so they'll do the exact wrong thing in response. They'll suffer mightily for it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 01:36 PM (ExV1e)

72 Romney's 47% dependency rate was wrong because it did not so much as attempt to account for the massive graft that DOGE has brought to light.

Shit. Sorry for the non sequitur. My point was that we have artificially inflated prices across the board because public assistance programs subsidize indirectly through fucking idiots who lack any damned understanding of value.

Think snacks/sodas because of SNAP and tuition because of subsidized student loans.

It is well past time to scrape these fucking parasites off.

Posted by: biteme at November 25, 2025 01:37 PM (xWS9V)

73 I don't know if going on TV and telling people that they are doing OK, when they are not , or don't feel they are not would help. I was told this story once, by a real estate agent: buyer did an inspection, and got spooked by something in the report. Now, the sellers lived with that "issue" for decades and it did not cause them any problems. If they would have insisted that there is no problem to the buyer, there would not have been a sale. So the seller fixed whatever spooked the buyer, the sale then went through.

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2025 01:37 PM (g47mK)

74 A new report, from the Senate Commerce Committee, says the Biden administration forced airports to house illegal immigrants, posing a serious safety risk to airports and American travelers.

That report alleges the Biden administration directed several government departments, including the Department of Transportation (DOT), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to house migrants in airports.

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 01:37 PM (RHGPo)

75 72 Think snacks/sodas because of SNAP and tuition because of subsidized student loans.

It is well past time to scrape these fucking parasites off.

Posted by: biteme at November 25, 2025 01:37 PM (xWS9V)

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Saw a headline that the Trump admin is forcing everyone on SNAP to reapply.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:37 PM (GBKbO)

76 Here’s an idea. How about you pass an election security package?

Posted by: Vengeance at November 25, 2025 01:37 PM (jlI90)

77 Powell is out in May

hopefully that isn't too late to turn things around

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 01:38 PM (emBoF)

78 Worried about the midterms, GOP? Pass some bills and arrest some people and keep bringing costs down. Problem solved.

Shoe's new video explains 100% for both the GOP and the dems what issues they need to focus on to win. (Hint: economy and making America
Affordable again) And she's a Bernie bro socialist with mommy brain fog who is specializing lately in dating trash fails content. If she gets it, why can't the GOP?!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gli4Ox4i54I

Dems are possibly finally realizing they need to appeal to the average Joe Again, instead of calling him a Nazi. GOP still finds average Joes icky. I do might have high hopes the GOP will get a clue before next year to dance with the MAGA average Joe that brung them.


Posted by: LizLem at November 25, 2025 01:38 PM (gWBY1)

79 "The latest DDHQ average shows Democrats beating Republicans 46.8 percent to 41.4 percent on the generic ballot."

There's the tell! That the Democraps are only 5 points ahead of the GOP at this point -- after months of non-stop doomsaying -- is an encouraging sign, not a depressing one. The gap is usually close to twice that.

As I said above, this is 99% leftwing ops. Don't fall for it, my brothers and sisters!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 01:38 PM (iFTx/)

80 Set up fake expectations to justify the later election fraud. Oldest trick in the book.

Posted by: zombie at November 25, 2025 01:38 PM (oraVG)

81 My advice to Republican "lawmakers" is: stop sucking and jerking each other, and DO YOUR JOBS.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2025 01:38 PM (s0JqF)

82 It'd be good if Congress codified Trump's reforms, and approved his nominees. If they don't why would people vote for same-old same-old?

Posted by: Iblis at November 25, 2025 01:39 PM (9221z)

83 >>>Maybe Trump has to give a national address -- he really should give some of these from time to time -- to readjust public's expectations about prices actually falling.

Maybe some DOGE staff could do it.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 01:39 PM (RuTUS)

84 And deflation fears stem from the Great Depression. Economists have been trained to do the opposite of everything that happened in the Great Depression from a monetary policy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:35 PM (GBKbO)

Deflation is an existential threat to the Banking Industry, and thus will NEVER happen, when it is the Banks who control the Fed Res Board...

You know, the folks who control inflation?

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 01:39 PM (mP0Kj)

85 Nobody watches TV anymore.

Posted by: It's dead, Jim. at November 25, 2025 01:39 PM (wq6Zu)

86 Telling people that there is no issues "up here" , where there are issues "down here" will only piss people off. It does not help if eggs and veggies are cheap...if you are forced to live in mama's house because you can't afford to buy your own.

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2025 01:39 PM (g47mK)

87 Saw a headline that the Trump admin is forcing everyone on SNAP to reapply.


this is true

actually a friend of mine posted the new application form - she is PISSED

she's also morbidly obese. her "disability" is not being able to walk good bc she weighs 300 pounds. she "failed" her gastric bypass.

anyway I loved the form! it was perfection. really good stuff.

the admin is doing everything it can, really. it's falling down on the visa thing, but if we keep the pressure on there they should eventually "get it."

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 01:39 PM (emBoF)

88 Republican senators say the off-year elections in New Jersey, Virginia and other parts of the country on Nov. 4 served as a wake-up call and warn that President Trump and Republican leaders in Congress need to address voters' concerns about the slowing economy and persistently high prices.
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Why do I feel that those same Republican senators would have dismissed any wins and still focused on the losses?
Because their intent is to amplify and give weight to Democrat attacks?

What are their proposals--currently pending in the Senate--that these Republicans have put into bills?

Sure sound like a lot of "we're going to blame Trump no matter what" to me.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 01:39 PM (T3zUV)

89 >>>For you Youngs

haha!

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 01:40 PM (RuTUS)

90 May is toooooo late to get rid of Powell!!

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2025 01:40 PM (g47mK)

91 Congress might be able to change that if they, you know, did something for a change.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 01:40 PM (8avO+)

92 84 Deflation is an existential threat to the Banking Industry, and thus will NEVER happen, when it is the Banks who control the Fed Res Board...

You know, the folks who control inflation?

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 01:39 PM (mP0Kj)

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Implementing large tariffs and deporting millions of people can affect inflation rates as much as the Fed can. Inflation goes down since both are deflationary.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:40 PM (GBKbO)

93 I enjoy Trump. I don’t like the Republicans and I especially dislike with the RINOs in the Senate. They could have enacted Trump’s agenda andthe public would be happier.

Posted by: High tech at November 25, 2025 01:40 PM (37cEZ)

94
As I said above, this is 99% leftwing ops. Don't fall for it, my brothers and sisters!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 01:38 PM (iFTx/)


We're mostly not the ones you need to worry about.

It's the idiots that just stayed home because their candidate wasn't PERFECT, so they sat back and watched as a CIA agent and an AG who wants to murder the his opponent and their children got elected in a landslide.

We truly are the F*CKING STUPID party.

That was just epic retarded.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 01:41 PM (Zz0t1)

95 90 May is toooooo late to get rid of Powell!!

yeah I agree but I don't see how to get rid of that asshat

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 01:41 PM (emBoF)

96 Telling people that there is no issues "up here"


My issues are up here.
-- Sydney Sweeney

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 01:41 PM (77rzZ)

97 The assumption people have continues to be that prices should fall back to what they had been. As I keep saying, we can't have prices fall without actual deflation, which the Fed would never allow to happen, because the downsides of deflation are too high. (People stop investing because their money is already appreciating in value if they just hoard it under the bed.)
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Thank you. That was clearly put. I do not see why most people just don't understand it. I got it in high school. Admittedly, that was back when we used wampum, but the principle holds.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2025 01:41 PM (s0JqF)

98 If you're invited to someone's house for Thanksgiving, can you just show up with cole slaw?

Yes, but only if it's KFC cole slaw.

All other cole slaw tastes like Harambe's ass.

Posted by: Zombie Steve Irwin at November 25, 2025 01:41 PM (R/m4+)

99 They argue Democrats' failure to come up with effective solutions to rein in health care costs and the rising power of far-left Democratic candidates gives them a chance to cling onto power in Washington.

This reminds me a bit about the situations with the Tories in the UK. The people there were tired of immigration and elected the tories to stop it.

When the tories refused to they turned around and voted for labor.

Now, the Republicans weren't elected specifically to deal with healthcare costs but...they haven't done much about it either.

And there are simple, simple reforms that could be done. Require proof of citizenship to get EMTALA coverage. Stop any federal funds for states that don't comply with ICE investigations - including of those on their welfare/free healthcare giveouts, and any states that refuse see their federal dollars shared instead with the other states. And on and on...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 01:41 PM (sKqQm)

100 Peter St. Onge says the Fed is fanning inflation by ending QT and will spring the trap on Rs by acquiescing to their demands that rates be reduced.

Posted by: Oglebay at November 25, 2025 01:41 PM (GPa4z)

101 >>>It doesn't help, of course, that Fed Chair Powell is determined to tank the economy,

I love that people are both screaming for deflation and insisting on increasing the money availability. Easy interest rates a) cause a heat up of the business cycle b) ramp up inflation, c) take between 4 and six months to be felt, and D) wind up running through the big banks, then the big borrowers (hedge funds and the like) before it trickles down to the guys who want to finance a used car or a home. Rates are not a magic wand, they only affect the price of borrowing money and creating debt.

The calls I hear now, which I agree with, is that homes are too pricey for kids to start families or families to move out of the "starter home" but dropping the rate is going to first benefit the big borrowers who can get lower rates due to their size and will outbid Timmy and Suzy Newlywed every time, and they still will wind up paying the cost of the mortgage and the profit the leasing company demands to make up the dividends to the investors.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 01:41 PM (rbvCR)

102 87
this is true

actually a friend of mine posted the new application form - she is PISSED

she's also morbidly obese. her "disability" is not being able to walk good bc she weighs 300 pounds. she "failed" her gastric bypass.

anyway I loved the form! it was perfection. really good stuff.

the admin is doing everything it can, really. it's falling down on the visa thing, but if we keep the pressure on there they should eventually "get it."

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 01:39 PM (emB

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We went from spending about $4 billion a year on SNAP in 2020 to about $8 billion a year in 2024.

Also...mass immigration happened.

What if Trump gets it back down to $3 billion or so...? Not much in the grand scheme of the fed budget but still...killing incentives to graft, man. It's a good thing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:42 PM (GBKbO)

103 If only there was this vast place of knowledge that could be searched in an instant to find answers to questions.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 01:30 PM (Zz0t1)

Just ask!

Posted by: Jeeves at November 25, 2025 01:42 PM (Ltmlv)

104 Most people may not realize what Trump realizes - best way to bring inflation and general costs down is to negotiate peace in the Ukraine, and peace in the Middle East. Do that and oil prices will fall dramatically, as will gasoline prices, as will inflation rates, as will Interest rates. And it will happen fairly quickly.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 01:42 PM (uWKK8)

105 I agree with Ace on the need for Trump to address the nation about what he is doing to address these major concerns. Unlike a Democrat, Trump can't count on the media to carry the message for him. It isn't enough to just do good stuff, he needs to personally communicate what he is doing, for what purpose, and the positive results and impact on people's lives. Especially when the effects aren't immediate. It's easy to spend a couple trillion dollars of debt into the economy or hand out stimulus checks and people can see it. It's harder when you are bringing jobs back via tariffs and foreign investment, because that takes time.

And finally--did anyone ask him to end 8 wars, or whatever he's doing? I mean it's good and all, but has he gotten obsessed with winning the Nobel Peace Prize? He was elected to be America First. If he wants people to feel like negotiating peace deals around the world is making good on that promise, he needs to say it directly to the American pubiic, over and over again. But...I don't think they will be buying it. Getting us out of Biden's Ukraine mess is important, but getting the economy back on track to overcome Biden's inflation is a bigger deal to people

Posted by: Mad Max in VA at November 25, 2025 01:42 PM (vSl8l)

106 They get rid of the Hare Krishnas only to replace them with criminally trespassing aliens.

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 01:42 PM (RHGPo)

107 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:32 PM (GBKbO)

Could happen. I forgot I could do that.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 01:42 PM (E0p3T)

108 94
As I said above, this is 99% leftwing ops. Don't fall for it, my brothers and sisters!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 01:38 PM (iFTx/)

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I viddied it, my brothers. I viddied it with my gulliver, so says your Humble Narrator.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:42 PM (GBKbO)

109 I enjoy Trump. I don’t like the Republicans and I especially dislike with the RINOs in the Senate. They could have enacted Trump’s agenda andthe public would be happier.

A pattern we've been seeing is with no Trump on the ballot Rs do much worse. Why? Because most GOP officials aren't trying to implement Trump's agenda.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 01:42 PM (sKqQm)

110 I don't think he tries hard enough...

Trump works plenty hard. It's just most GOP politicians aren't trustworthy or aggressive enough in implementing what the base wants, and pitching it to moderates.

When you find the rare exception (DeSantis), he crushes it.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 25, 2025 01:43 PM (JCZqz)

111 I can't trust any of this Ace. Sorry, and I'm not bitching about your posting it. All there is, but it's unreliable by its' nature.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 01:43 PM (PCK5/)

112 OT- who is responsible for fetching the turkey for the TG day pardon? Can you put this on your resume? 😉 " i received the turkey and stood by while it was pardoned"

Video. Quite the talkative turkey

https://tinyurl.com/466dsyfy

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 01:43 PM (Nx5jP)

113 >>> If you're invited to someone's house for Thanksgiving, can you just show up with cole slaw?

Coleslaw AND a shareable beverage or dessert? It probably depends on the size of your group and how picky they are.

Posted by: LizLem at November 25, 2025 01:43 PM (gWBY1)

114 It would be great if they are this worried that they would try to, I don't know, pass some of Trump's EO into law.

The only political body more useless than these jackholes is the Sentate GOP.

Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at November 25, 2025 01:43 PM (xaNfJ)

115 As I said above, this is 99% leftwing ops. Don't fall for it, my brothers and sisters!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 01:38 PM (iFTx/)


We're mostly not the ones you need to worry about.

It's the idiots that just stayed home because their candidate wasn't PERFECT, so they sat back and watched as a CIA agent and an AG who wants to murder the his opponent and their children got elected in a landslide.

We truly are the F*CKING STUPID party.

That was just epic retarded.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 01:41 PM (Zz0t1)
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Yes and no. I think there's too much demoralized talk even here, and the perfect being the enemy of the good. But yea, this is all about turnout. We can't win elections if significant percentages of our people don't get off their fucking asses and vote.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 01:43 PM (iFTx/)

116 We went from spending about $4 billion a year on SNAP in 2020 to about $8 billion a year in 2024.

Also...mass immigration happened.

68% of SNAP goes to non-citizens.

SO...if you 0 out the non-citizens you are back to what it was pre-Biden.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 01:44 PM (sKqQm)

117 I don't think people are going by addresses to the nation. They are going by the job market and what they can afford.

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2025 01:44 PM (g47mK)

118 That report alleges the Biden administration directed several government departments, including the Department of Transportation (DOT), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to house migrants in airports.
Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 01:37 PM (RHGPo)

Uh... there were LOCAL news reports at the time which talked about this... lots of pictures.

Hell, they even had special lines set up for those who did not have US IDs. Citizens were supposed to show their Real ID... Illegals just showed whatevah.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 01:44 PM (mP0Kj)

119 94
As I said above, this is 99% leftwing ops. Don't fall for it, my brothers and sisters!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 01:38 PM (iFTx/)


We're mostly not the ones you need to worry about.

It's the idiots that just stayed home because their candidate wasn't PERFECT, so they sat back and watched as a CIA agent and an AG who wants to murder the his opponent and their children got elected in a landslide.

We truly are the F*CKING STUPID party.

That was just epic retarded.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 01:41 PM (Zz0t1)
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I didn't vote in my schoolboard elections, which were "nonpartisan". I couldn't figure out who was bad, and who was worse. Tried calling the local GOP and some state "conservative" organizations. Never got an answer.

We really are bad at this.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2025 01:44 PM (s0JqF)

120 I am skipping over such threads for at least the next several months because a) it is too early, b) House and Senate races involve specific candidates and we don't know who those will be, c) external events occur that are outside of politics and ops shit.

Polling, in particular, is so unreliable nowadays that you might as well get a Ouija board. Same goes with pundit opinions.

We shall simply have to wait and see what the future holds for us.

Posted by: whig at November 25, 2025 01:44 PM (WDjG6)

121 As much as I like Trump, I have to admit that I don’t think Trump really cares about the GOP fortunes either. Unfortunately.

Everything just seems very personal and that just doesn’t translate well to a national race where Trump‘s not on the ballot

I guarantee you if the GOP does get wiped out he’ll have some tweet about how they didn’t support him sufficiently and that’s why it happened

There’s some low hanging fruit Trump could address in a very MAGA on big concerns like housing affordability. I also think the tariff stuff needs to be more laser focused, and not across the board.

Posted by: Maroon at November 25, 2025 01:44 PM (2eayv)

122 >> (People stop investing because their money is already appreciating in value if they just hoard it under the bed.)

I have to protest this statement. People no longer store gold under their beds.

The problems with deflation are
- asset prices drop (and that pisses off the upper class)
- debtors suffer (and that pisses off anyone with a mortgage)
- wages don't drop (wages are sticky. high wages is bad for business)
and mostly,
- gov does not get its "vig" on printing new money to replaces deflated dollars. In fact, gov. is the biggest debtor so they suffer the most. Congress might have to cut back on sex slave junkets.

The only people deflation helps are savers. Fuck savers, this is America and our economy is built on debt.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 25, 2025 01:44 PM (kIamG)

123 I think you should all have faith in the GOP. They have changed, swearsies. The evidence of the their inaction is Chinese bot disinformation.

Is "Reset McConnell" still a Senator? I have blocked it out.

Posted by: connected and litigious at November 25, 2025 01:44 PM (s9EN2)

124 GOP Worries About Midterms "Wipeout"

That is to say, can we successfully create the wipeout without giving away the game? Can we keep Trump from endorsing enough of us?

Posted by: The GOPe at November 25, 2025 01:44 PM (ittVa)

125 Maybe voters think prices should come down because Trump told them he would do that during the campaign. Every time he said it I would facepalm.

Posted by: Mark1971 at November 25, 2025 01:44 PM (CNl8/)

126 112 OT- who is responsible for fetching the turkey for the TG day pardon? Can you put this on your resume? 😉 " i received the turkey and stood by while it was pardoned"

Video. Quite the talkative turkey

https://tinyurl.com/466dsyfy

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 01:43 PM (Nx5jP)

Bag or two of chips n' dip.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 01:45 PM (PCK5/)

127 Fucking GOP.
Content to sit under the Thanksgiving table like dogs, waiting for the grifter crumbs to fall off the table where the dems feast.
And we're outside the frosty window looking in, starving and cold.

Posted by: UncleJefe at November 25, 2025 01:45 PM (gAuAm)

128 All the spots taken for the circular firing squad?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 25, 2025 01:45 PM (FPBvm)

129 St Paul, MN Ice protest scrolled on TV at restaurant I'm at. Police shot a tear cas canister into crowd. Another diner yelled out, "Hit em again!" Heh.

Posted by: scampydog at November 25, 2025 01:45 PM (iyrM8)

130 A politician called Adolf Hitler is set to win a local election in his home country, but claimed his father had no idea about the Nazi leader’s significance when he named his son.

Adolf Hitler Uunona, 59, is poised to win a second local election in the southwest African country of Namibia on Nov. 26, holding his seat in the north of the country after previously receiving 85% of the vote in 2020.

The member of the left-wing Swapo party previously spoke about his infamous name after coming to global attention following his win in the Ompundja constituency.

His father “probably didn’t understand what Adolf Hitler stood for. As a child, I saw it as a totally normal name,” the politician told German newspaper Bild in 2020.

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 01:45 PM (RHGPo)

131 103 If only there was this vast place of knowledge that could be searched in an instant to find answers to questions.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 01:30 PM (Zz0t1)

Just ask!
Posted by: Jeeves at November 25, 2025 01:42 PM (Ltmlv)

; )

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 01:45 PM (RuTUS)

132 "“I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.” - Alexis de Tocqueville.

A sweeping statement that is not true in every case, but true often enough for it to be a constant source of annoyance and danger under a democratic form of government

Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2025 01:45 PM (mADJX)

133 109 I enjoy Trump. I don’t like the Republicans and I especially dislike with the RINOs in the Senate. They could have enacted Trump’s agenda andthe public would be happier.

A pattern we've been seeing is with no Trump on the ballot Rs do much worse. Why? Because most GOP officials aren't trying to implement Trump's agenda.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 01:42 PM (sKqQm)

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Trump, like Obama before him, attracts low-propensity voters.

Democrats regularly did terribly with Obama as president in midterms because low-propensity voters simply don't turn out for midterms at the same level as high-propensity voters.

We essentially traded winning the presidency for winning midterms.

Changing low-propensity voters into high-propensity voters is a large issue because the behavior is mostly tied to education levels and has been for a long time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:45 PM (GBKbO)

134 103 If only there was this vast place of knowledge that could be searched in an instant to find answers to questions.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 01:30 PM (Zz0t1)

Just ask!
Posted by: Jeeves at November 25, 2025 01:42 PM (Ltmlv)
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Surely, given the sig, that should be "Just ask, sir."

Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2025 01:46 PM (s0JqF)

135 You would think somebody who made their name as a builder would be out there with a plan to increase the supply of housing. But nope.

Posted by: Mark1971 at November 25, 2025 01:46 PM (CNl8/)

136 I've been saying for a while that one of the biggest determinants of the 2026 election will be the state of the economy next summer.

That should be Trump's focus.

He should also looks for high profiles fights to launch around that time as a fall back. "The economy hasn't fully recovered because the Dems are stopping us from taking free healthcare from illegals" or something like that.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 01:46 PM (sKqQm)

137 "I don't think he tries hard enough. I think he has to make the case, in a major national campaign, that it is absolutely necessary for Trump's personal political fortunes that he doesn't have a Congress controlled by "lunatic left-wing Democrats" impeaching him every five minutes like he did from 2019-2020."

This is why Trump is planning a Republican Convention in 2026 to make the case before the midterms.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 25, 2025 01:46 PM (0CU3H)

138 Peter St. Onge says the Fed is fanning inflation by ending QT and will spring the trap on Rs by acquiescing to their demands that rates be reduced.
Posted by: Oglebay at November 25, 2025 01:41 PM (GPa4z)

I am told that the Fed is now getting those mortgage backed equities off of their balance sheet, which is acting much in the same way as QT.

but inflation is expansion of the money supply, not pausing the contraction of it, which is what QT is

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 01:47 PM (rbvCR)

139 I didn't vote in my schoolboard elections, which were "nonpartisan". I couldn't figure out who was bad, and who was worse. Tried calling the local GOP and some state "conservative" organizations. Never got an answer.

We really are bad at this.
Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2025 01:44 PM (s0JqF)


They don't reach out. Only the well funded state and national candidates send out mailers and give you their supposed stance. There's no source to go find anything. Those that put out signs usually don't even put their party affiliation on the sign anymore. I view these people as democrats ashamed of their party and not worthy of my time to actually look them up.

elections in America, especially local ones, are clusterf*cks of epic proportions. Until our side starts actually taking them seriously at ALL levels, we're doomed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 01:47 PM (Zz0t1)

140 A politician called Adolf Hitler is set to win a local election in his home country, but claimed his father had no idea about the Nazi leader’s significance when he named his son.

Adolf Hitler Uunona, 59, is poised to win a second local election in the southwest African country of Namibia on Nov. 26, holding his seat in the north of the country after previously receiving 85% of the vote in 2020.

The member of the left-wing Swapo party previously spoke about his infamous name after coming to global attention following his win in the Ompundja constituency.

His father “probably didn’t understand what Adolf Hitler stood for. As a child, I saw it as a totally normal name,” the politician told German newspaper Bild in 2020.
Posted by: SMOD

Fun fact: The first colonial governor of German Southwest Africa was Hermann Goebells' father.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 01:47 PM (77rzZ)

141 18 I don't think he tries hard enough. I think he has to make the case, in a major national campaign, that it is absolutely necessary for Trump's personal political fortunes that he doesn't have a Congress controlled by "lunatic left-wing Democrats" impeaching him every five minutes like he did from 2019-2020.
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What are you thinking, maybe something like a big, televised show, with various stars and conservative speakers, a "convention" if you will, in the summer of 2028?

IDK, might work.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 01:28 PM (T3zUV)

Yeah, what this guy said.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 25, 2025 01:47 PM (0CU3H)

142 Ok, I'm just gonna toss this out there.

If you're invited to someone's house for Thanksgiving, can you just show up with cole slaw?
Posted by: Don't shoot me at November 25, 2025 01:33 PM (wq6Zu)

Bring a bottle of bourbon. Four Roses Small Batch is under $40, their Single Barrel is usually under or right around $50. Can't go wrong with either.

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2025 01:47 PM (Ltmlv)

143 Housing prices are falling! Especially in places where homeowners insurance premiums are skyrocketing

Posted by: Oglebay at November 25, 2025 01:47 PM (GPa4z)

144 So, Adolf Hitler is a member of the left-wing South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO) party

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 01:47 PM (RHGPo)

145 All you have to do is look at the streamers on twitch to know that Trump is losing the mojo. Some of the biggest channels that carried his water during the election are either silent or critical of him now.

Specifically I saw a video "If you have a job now, keep it. Nobody is getting hired."

I gotta say that my account balances haven't gone up. Sure my investment portfolio has, but my free cash is sitting at or even slightly below where it was when Trump took office. I'm not blue collar, both my wife and I are 6-figure earners with no kids. Just maintaining the same lifestyle as we previously had.

But anyone who says they're pissed at Trump for prices not coming DOWN doesn't know how inflation (and deflation) works. If prices were dropping that would indicate something REALLY bad going on... and we might be getting there. All of those make believe announcements of foreign investment aren't going to show up in peoples' paychecks any year soon....

Posted by: Defenestratus at November 25, 2025 01:47 PM (WYStd)

146 Will a 26 convention get the media coverage needed?

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 01:48 PM (PCK5/)

147 They like Trump, seeing him as a different kind of Republican who appeals to union hall Democrats, but they do not like other Republicans, and Trump has never been able to convince them to vote for other Republicans.

I don't think he tries hard enough. I think he has to make the case, in a major national campaign, that it is absolutely necessary for Trump's personal political fortunes that he doesn't have a Congress controlled by "lunatic left-wing Democrats" impeaching him every five minutes like he did from 2019-2020.

Posted by: Ace at 01:23 PM

While this is true, I'm betting that Trump doesn't want to campaign for people what will backstab him.... and that seems to be what the political animals in the Republican party want to do.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 25, 2025 01:48 PM (N1DT3)

148 Changing low-propensity voters into high-propensity voters is a large issue because the behavior is mostly tied to education levels and has been for a long time.

I think that can be at least partially addressed though. Give people an immediate and obvious cash benefit for voting R.

Trump's "tariff giveback" for example. Try to get it passed in the fall of '26 or have it publicly and closely fail. Want the money? Vote R.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 01:48 PM (sKqQm)

149 As mad as I get at GOP leadership, I don’t really buy into the narrative that people are not voting Republican because they aren’t conservative enough

I’ve just never heard a real world example where some ultra conservative said they decided not to vote at all because they wanted to teach Republicans and lesson and put the Democrats in power

Posted by: Maroon at November 25, 2025 01:48 PM (2eayv)

150 Cool thing I heard, and I hope it's real, is that Texas is finally going to start enforcing the law that you must have a valid driver's license to apply for vehicle registration.

And if the dealer applies, they must include a copy.

Seems it was on the books but never really enforced.

If so, the market for used pickups in TX is about to collapse and I'll be getting a screaming hot deal on a used pick-up in Feb as the dealers become desperate to unload 100+ day inventory.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 01:49 PM (T3zUV)

151 “Starting on day one, we will end inflation and make America affordable again, to bring down the prices of all goods.”

“Prices will come down. You just watch: They’ll come down, and they’ll come down fast, not only with insurance, with everything.”

Tell people they're idiots for trusting Trump and expecting him to fulfill promises he repeatedly made, that'll fix it.

Posted by: deepelemblues at November 25, 2025 01:49 PM (eXcBF)

152 I live on the outskirts of one of the fastest growing cities in America.

We bought our house 2 years ago.

Last week, a house sold that's almost 1,000 sq feet larger than ours, in the same neighborhood under the same HOA and everything, for about $20,000 less than what we bought ours for.

People don't want price decreases when they actually happen because the paper value of their assets also decrease.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:49 PM (GBKbO)

153 They like Trump, seeing him as a different kind of Republican who appeals to union hall Democrats, but they do not like other Republicans, and Trump has never been able to convince them to vote for other Republicans.

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Those union hall Democrats are certainly a big boost for Trump, since it pulls from the opponent's normal totals.

But I don't think it's as big a problem as people like me - former Reublicans who voted for Trump, but who won't vote for any GOP incumbent. I vote for him because I hate the rest of the Party, and I'm far from the only one.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 01:49 PM (BI5O2)

154 "Trump's sinking approval rating" -- bullshit, he's actually up a few points in the latest polls. Whenever you hear "Trump's sinking approval rating," you should guard your wallet. His rating has been "sinking" for so long he should be at zero by now.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 01:31 PM (iFTx/)

And that is 'sinking' from a nationwide blowout win. If Congress needs to improve their ability to beat the steals, well the have to do the working themselves in the states.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 25, 2025 01:49 PM (8avO+)

155 The real problem is that most of the GOP in Congress are THRILLED by the prospect of a wipeout because then survivors can safely go back to sleep. They're awful and useless.

Posted by: Kensington at November 25, 2025 01:49 PM (ponas)

156 39 30 The economy has "slowed" from 1.7% GDP growth to over 4% GDP growth.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at November 25, 2025 01:30 PM (xvV+O)

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The problem is that the media keeps pumping out stories about how the economy isn't good because we didn't add enough jobs to keep up with population growth (while we're actually losing population because deportations are so aggressive and multi-faceted).

So...people buy into it. People who shouldn't buy into it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:31 PM (GBKbO)
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For us, that's just the terrain we have to fight on. And has been as long as I recall. In the 80s there were constant stories "But not everyone is benefiting from the rising economy". They'd find some who were miserable (or pretended to be) and proved Reagan was a Nazi.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2025 01:50 PM (s0JqF)

157 I am not convinced GOPe is actually concerned.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 25, 2025 01:50 PM (Z4leY)

158 You would think somebody who made their name as a builder would be out there with a plan to increase the supply of housing.

They're already built. Just gotta keep that one-way door to Mexico open.

Posted by: t-bird at November 25, 2025 01:50 PM (ittVa)

159 I think minor deflation concerns are flat out silly. No one puts off buying a TV because a year from now it will be $5 cheaper.

And really, its like inflation. Minor inflation doesn't matter much either.

But...high levels of either are bad because they distort the economy. Ideally you'd manage a 0% inflation rate and keep the currency value constant.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 01:50 PM (sKqQm)

160 148 Changing low-propensity voters into high-propensity voters is a large issue because the behavior is mostly tied to education levels and has been for a long time.

I think that can be at least partially addressed though. Give people an immediate and obvious cash benefit for voting R.

Trump's "tariff giveback" for example. Try to get it passed in the fall of '26 or have it publicly and closely fail. Want the money? Vote R.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 01:48 PM (sKqQm)

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I think you have to change the party apparatus from top to bottom. The focus needs to be on GOTV, not ad buys, with presence in every district in the country, or least as many as possible.

Money needs to go to get hundreds of door knockers out there through election season to drive people to polls, not mailers or ad buys.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:51 PM (GBKbO)

161 Bring a bottle of bourbon. Four Roses Small Batch is under $40, their Single Barrel is usually under or right around $50. Can't go wrong with either.
Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2025 01:47 PM (Ltmlv)

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I'd rather have a pie.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 01:52 PM (DRSnL)

162 > "SISU: The Road to Vengeance" - a fun, whip-smart roller coaster ride of an action movie.

I really didn't like the first one, though I wanted to. He kept letting the NAZIs get way too close to him. He'd get surrounded, then and only then he'd go berserker on them. If you completely turn off your brain and take it like a superhero movie, I suppose it's alright. But it's presented like a gritty, real war movie. It wasn't for me.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 25, 2025 01:52 PM (Yp6az)

163
If you're invited to someone's house for Thanksgiving, can you just show up with cole slaw?

No.

Unless the Thanksgiving meal is BBQ.

Think about it. Have you ever eaten cole slaw at a regular Thanksgiving dinner?

Do you think cole slaw matches the other foods there?

Think about doing something with winter vegetables? Super-easy.

I love cole slaw but I wouldn't love it at a Thanksgiving dinner.

But, you know, do as you wish.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 25, 2025 01:52 PM (iJfKG)

164 158 You would think somebody who made their name as a builder would be out there with a plan to increase the supply of housing.

They're already built. Just gotta keep that one-way door to Mexico open.

Posted by: t-bird at November 25, 2025 01:50 PM (ittVa)

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Builders have been overbuilding for years. We have plenty of supply.

It's just that we imported 16 million people from 2021 to 2024. And yes...illegals get mortgage assistance in some states.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:52 PM (GBKbO)

165 I’m deflation curious as I remain open to completely new experiences.

Posted by: Oglebay at November 25, 2025 01:52 PM (GPa4z)

166 What we need is affordable government built owned and operated housing for the masses!!! Peddle THAT idea for 26. Democracy!! For the People!!

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 01:52 PM (PCK5/)

167 People don't want price decreases when they actually happen because the paper value of their assets also decrease.

In my area the prices declined slightly from their peaks but are still 50% or more then they were before Biden.

And it is killing people with property taxes. Yes your house is worth more when you sell it, but if you aren't a house flipper you go that in 10-20 years...

Local government is thrilled though. They still try to get even more tax increases, but they have enough money to hire all their relatives even when they fail...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 01:53 PM (sKqQm)

168 I am not convinced GOPe is actually concerned.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 25, 2025 01:50 PM (Z4leY)


As Megan Kelly said, they LOVE losing. They're really good at it. It's become their thing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 01:53 PM (Zz0t1)

169 >>> 135 You would think somebody who made their name as a builder would be out there with a plan to increase the supply of housing. But nope.

The stupid 50 year mortgage plan is what is getting me. How can Trump even entertain this stupidity? The idea of the interest on that sucker makes me cry.

I know so many millennial couples trying to buy their first home. They cannot make it work with the current interest rates and with all the other weird stuff screwing up the housing market. (Blackrock, illegals, slow increase of housing options, etc)

We just refinanced our mortgage down a percentage point, and we will save $200k over the course of our loan. That is not pocket change for an average family!

Posted by: LizLem at November 25, 2025 01:53 PM (gWBY1)

170 “Prices will come down. You just watch: They’ll come down, and they’ll come down fast, not only with insurance, with everything.”

Tell people they're idiots for trusting Trump and expecting him to fulfill promises he repeatedly made, that'll fix it.
Posted by: deepelemblues

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Some prices do go down, and have gone down.
Gasoline, services like insurance, interest rates. .... all these are not sticky and they go down as conditions permit.

The problem is that these are not counted by the media. Food prices are mostly sticky. housing and rents are sticky.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 25, 2025 01:53 PM (kIamG)

171 68% of SNAP goes to non-citizens.

SO...if you 0 out the non-citizens you are back to what it was pre-Biden.
Posted by: 18-1

I'm pretty sure professional Leftists on Reddit have assured me a million times this is unpossible. It's illegal, or something...the first law against illegal immigrants they want enforced, apparently, is denying them food, housing and healthcare. Weird.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 25, 2025 01:53 PM (JCZqz)

172 If you're invited to someone's house for Thanksgiving, can you just show up with cole slaw?
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Dickeled eggs.

Deviled eggs with a vienna weiner inserted.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 01:53 PM (T3zUV)

173 Sure sound like a lot of "we're going to blame Trump no matter what" to me.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 01:39 PM (T3zUV)

The problem is that they are defending the current political world as it is, much the way they fought the Tea Party and the way Wm F Buckley fought everyone to control what a conservative can be.
The current world is comfortable and they have boundaries, arrangements with the Dems and everyone knows where the next handout is coming from.

And if that means at times illegal aliens will be trucked in by the planeload, or unions and the children of politicians will be acting as bagmen for foreign dictators, well, the profits are there for everyone in the club and guarantees that the elites will be allowed to walk away when everyone else gets eaten.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 01:53 PM (rbvCR)

174 I agree that some slight deflation is basically a non issue , but Trump has absolutely no interest in deflation at all. Jack up interest rates and you’ll cure any level inflation real quick.

Trump is the biggest proponent right now of getting interest rates as low as possible to spur growth

Posted by: Maroon at November 25, 2025 01:54 PM (2eayv)

175 =====

I'd rather have a pie.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 01:52 PM (DRSnL)


That's hot.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 01:54 PM (Zz0t1)

176 Posted by: deepelemblues at November 25, 2025 01:49 PM (eXcBF)

Oh, look another leftist naysayer.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 01:54 PM (lQ+/f)

177 I think you have to change the party apparatus from top to bottom. The focus needs to be on GOTV, not ad buys, with presence in every district in the country, or least as many as possible.

That too. Come election time the local Ds have people that will drive you to the polls...and tell you who to vote for on the drive.

The Rs? All I get are donation emails, donation texts, and donation robocalls.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 01:54 PM (sKqQm)

178 Has the Home Depot Ice Scrapper protest been mentioned today?

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 25, 2025 01:54 PM (WbprS)

179 When you want to win an election, especially a midterm, do what democrats have done since the beginning of the country - give shit away. When you control all three branches of government you hold the cards, so pass out some money and get elected. This ain't rocket science.

Posted by: jwest at November 25, 2025 01:55 PM (lnMN4)

180 Has the Home Depot Ice Scrapper protest been mentioned today?
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 25, 2025 01:54 PM (WbprS)


Are they still doing it? And Home Depot hasn't pulled them off the shelf?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 01:55 PM (Zz0t1)

181 As Megan Kelly said, they LOVE losing. They're really good at it. It's become their thing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 01:53 PM (Zz0t1)

If you take the uniparty view, it is just normal ebbs and flows, where the losers go to a different public trough or some lobbying gig.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 25, 2025 01:55 PM (Z4leY)

182 Gold had increased substantially by 1981, to $650 an ounce. They pushed it all the way back to $350, instead of taking an intermediate $450 value, which would have lessened the damage.
After that, Volcker kept gold stable, until Greenspan let it drop in the mid 90s.

Posted by: MikeN at November 25, 2025 01:55 PM (HVZOH)

183 That's hot.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 01:54 PM (Zz0t1)

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'Tis the season to be a fattie.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 01:55 PM (DRSnL)

184 I'm pretty sure professional Leftists on Reddit have assured me a million times this is unpossible. It's illegal, or something...the first law against illegal immigrants they want enforced, apparently, is denying them food, housing and healthcare. Weird.

This is the cycle I keep seeing:

First: No non-citizens get any form of welfare. It is against the law and just not possible.

Then: We can't pass this rule requiring citizenship to get benefits! It will throw millions of people off those programs!

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 01:56 PM (sKqQm)

185 May is toooooo late to get rid of Powell!!
Posted by: runner at November 25, 2025 01:40 PM (g47mK)

How long do you think it will take to find, nominate and get a new Chairman through the Congress? Done by May maybe?

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 01:56 PM (rbvCR)

186 IRT the economy and how it feels there is an article going around from somebodies substack:

x.com/JoshKraushaar/status/
1993324556606427493

I was able to read it once but I think they want you to pay for it now. It might be on bari wise's old the free press place.

I thought it was very insightful. People are poking holes at it, but is main thrust is that our view of the economy, what poverty means, and the relationship between income and well being is skewed. He starts off discussing the poverty line being linked to 3x monthly food costs and why that is completely broken now. With the cost of housing, day care and other things rocketing away from food costs. This is old news to people I think. He recalculates the poverty line up from current 30K to 150K. And a lot of people or harping on his methodology there and that he concentrates on families.

But the other part that is good is where he discusses the great penalties imposed in the 30K-150K range. You start earning above 30K and you make less money. It's a math function where people are being sorted into 150K.

If you can check it out I think it is a good read.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 01:56 PM (3uBP9)

187 177 I think you have to change the party apparatus from top to bottom. The focus needs to be on GOTV, not ad buys, with presence in every district in the country, or least as many as possible.

That too. Come election time the local Ds have people that will drive you to the polls...and tell you who to vote for on the drive.

The Rs? All I get are donation emails, donation texts, and donation robocalls.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 01:54 PM (sKqQm)

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Actually, what affects things is self-starting behaviors. Something like 90-95% of all voting behavior is unaffected by GOTV, ads, and any other spending.

People just...choose to vote.

(whig sent me an research paper about this that I read, and it came to this conclusion, though the focus was on the relative effectiveness of campaign tactics)

It's not that the DNC is bussing people to vote. It's that Dem voters largely just choose to vote regularly. It's habit. So, we either wait for GOP low-propensity voters to develop the habit, or the RNC spends money to make it a habit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:57 PM (GBKbO)

188 The 50 year mortgage would skyrocket housing prices

Not much different than when the federal government got heavily involved in student loans

Once you remove a lot of obstacles on the “ability to pay “factor, prices go up

Posted by: Maroon at November 25, 2025 01:57 PM (2eayv)

189 My wife made a real pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving. I'm diabetic and shouldn't eat any of it, but I'm gonna have some anyway.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 01:57 PM (77rzZ)

190 When you want to win an election, especially a midterm, do what democrats have done since the beginning of the country - give shit away/i]

Leftwing demographics get PAID when the Dems win elections. If the Rs win I might not get tax/inflation increases. But even that isn't guaranteed.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 01:57 PM (sKqQm)

191 >>Fun fact: The first colonial governor of German Southwest Africa was Hermann Goebells' father.

Goering, not Goebbels.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 25, 2025 01:57 PM (NcvvS)

192 I hear more and more complaints, including from actual Republicans, that inflation is still high.

Posted by: Ace at 01:23 PM

You've got the answer, but it's really simple.

Inflation isn't high anymore. It is slightly elevated, but it's very close to the Fed's goal.

Prices are high. While inflation and prices are related, they are not the same.

Like you say, prices aren't likely to come down*. Trump needs to work on wages and make that his pitch. His first term was the first time blue-collar wages outpaced inflation in (IIRC) 40 years.

That's the hope he needs to tout.


*Except for places where prices were artificially raised by scarcity from government action: oil, beef, energy, etc...

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 25, 2025 01:57 PM (N1DT3)

193 Has the Home Depot Ice Scrapper protest been mentioned today?
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 25, 2025 01:54 PM (WbprS)


Are they still doing it? And Home Depot hasn't pulled them off the shelf?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 01:55 PM

I guess I am late to the story. My wife was laughing about it this morning and that was the first I had heard of it.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 25, 2025 01:57 PM (WbprS)

194 "SISU: The Road to Vengeance" - a fun, whip-smart roller coaster ride of an action movie.

I really didn't like the first one, though I wanted to. He kept letting the NAZIs get way too close to him. He'd get surrounded, then and only then he'd go berserker on them. If you completely turn off your brain and take it like a superhero movie, I suppose it's alright. But it's presented like a gritty, real war movie. It wasn't for me.
Posted by: bonhomme at November 25, 2025 01:52 PM (Yp6az)

Huh. Interesting.

I never saw it as a realistic war movie at all. More like a live version of hyper-violent old style Warner Brothers cartoon. If you think back, there are several scenes which bear this out.

That's probably why I enjoyed it and you didn't.

My expectations were met and your's weren't.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 25, 2025 01:58 PM (iJfKG)

195 169 >>> 135 You would think somebody who made their name as a builder would be out there with a plan to increase the supply of housing. But nope.

The stupid 50 year mortgage plan is what is getting me. How can Trump even entertain this stupidity?
Posted by: LizLem at November 25, 2025 01:53 PM (gWBY1)

He has to know that it is stupid. I can't figure out what might be going on.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 01:58 PM (RuTUS)

196 Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 01:55 PM (DRSnL)

Is there a particular pie you like? I'd bring it if I were coming over ?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 01:58 PM (PFs9e)

197 I'm actually optimistic whatever happens in the midterms. You don't elect majorities with the expectation that they will last forever or exist for their own sake. You elect them to be a superior alternative to what you might have had over a relatively short period of time.

Add to that the Democrat Part is utterly broken. It's become a joke to even its own members (looking at you Kartel Kid from Arizona). It's lost 2.1 million voters since 2020 with the Reps gaining 2.4 million nationally in that same time in the thirty states that track by voter ID. Dems lost in every single one of those states.

Bessent is prognosticating a significant economic turnaround come next year. I agree with that assessment. And it's going to happen because we avoided the alternative last November.

Aside from that there's always , "Events, dear boy, events."

And nobody knows exactly which way those events will take us.

Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at November 25, 2025 01:58 PM (JAqQQ)

198 Fun fact: The first colonial governor of German Southwest Africa was Hermann Goebells' father.

Goering, not Goebbels.
Posted by: Nazdar

You're right, thanks. I am prone to getting the two "Goe-" guys mixed up if I don't stop and think about it.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 01:59 PM (77rzZ)

199 It's not that the DNC is bussing people to vote. It's that Dem voters largely just choose to vote regularly. It's habit. So, we either wait for GOP low-propensity voters to develop the habit, or the RNC spends money to make it a habit.

Getting more of that 5-10% that don't always vote to do so can be a big deal.

I agree making it a habit is the important part. I vote whether or not my local GOP does anything. But...for example how many right leaning seniors would go vote if a young person chatted with them, drove them there, and then took them home?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 01:59 PM (sKqQm)

200 It's not that the DNC is bussing people to vote. It's that Dem voters largely just choose to vote regularly. It's habit. So, we either wait for GOP low-propensity voters to develop the habit, or the RNC spends money to make it a habit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:57 PM (GBKbO)
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I refuse to believe that Dem voters actually get out there to vote. More likely, the Dems manufacture enough votes through the Machine and use the Dem "voters" in their district to give them plausible deniability if anyone challenges the tally.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 25, 2025 01:59 PM (IBQGV)

201 Blaming Trump for this mess isn't going to help anything. He (and a few others he handpicked) are responsible for the only positive developments in US politics over the last 25 years.

Everybody else has fucked us. We should be using this dude as a template, not a whipping boy.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 01:59 PM (BI5O2)

202 Is there a particular pie you like? I'd bring it if I were coming over ?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 01:58 PM (PFs9e)

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Apple is my favorite.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 02:00 PM (DRSnL)

203 Had to look it up, Bulg, because Hermann Goering & Josef Goebbels, could have gone either way.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 25, 2025 02:00 PM (NcvvS)

204 When you want to win an election, especially a midterm, do what democrats have done since the beginning of the country - give shit away
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IDK, we've been selling "eat shit and die" for decades now. Plus tax cuts for corporations. Why would we change that and offer something to middle-class Americans?
/s/
GOPe

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 02:00 PM (T3zUV)

205 200 I refuse to believe that Dem voters actually get out there to vote. More likely, the Dems manufacture enough votes through the Machine and use the Dem "voters" in their district to give them plausible deniability if anyone challenges the tally.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 25, 2025 01:59 PM (IBQGV)

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I don't discount the cheat, but I just think it crested in 2022.

Government workers turned out to vote in VA. Rural Republicans didn't. No need to manufacture 100,000 votes to win that race.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 02:01 PM (GBKbO)

206 >>>Hundreds of anti-ICE protestors brought their Home Depot to a halt just by buying and returning 17-cent ice scrapers

Oh, my.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 02:01 PM (RuTUS)

207 I've been saying for a while that one of the biggest determinants of the 2026 election will be the state of the economy next summer.
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I think the biggest thing will be how many Republican incumbents are paid to mysteriously retire.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 02:01 PM (E0p3T)

208 I wonder to what extent Democrats will go, should they gain power again (and they will, sometime), to prevent someone like Trump from threatening their power and the implementation of their world view in the future. My fear is that Trump may prove to be merely the Indian summer of our republic, and that the Democrats will carry us all off to a wintry perdition that may last a very long time. Given the durability of fatuous ideas like socialism, extreme moral relativism, the distractions afforded by the modern equivalents of bread and circuses, I think it is inevitable that we are, at some point, going to be compelled to march all the way to the end of this desolate road before undergoing a sea change in outlook.

Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2025 02:01 PM (mADJX)

209 People stop investing because their money is already appreciating in value if they just hoard it under the bed.

I was taught this in tenth grade US History, and I believed it blindly for decades until COVID forced me to question everything.

The first problem is that not many of our fellow citizens invest. About half are dependent on government handouts to survive. At least half the remainder live hand-to-mouth.

I heard sob stories in real life about GS-15s who are in dire financial peril because of the shutdown. These fuckers pull close to $200k/year plus gold-plated benefits around here. How can a few months wreck them?

The second problem is that inflation drives artificial demand for investing, and that artificial demand floods companies with excess capitalization that leads to waste, bubbles, and piss-poor management in general.

Posted by: biteme at November 25, 2025 02:01 PM (xWS9V)

210 It's not that the DNC is bussing people to vote. It's that Dem voters largely just choose to vote regularly. It's habit. So, we either wait for GOP low-propensity voters to develop the habit, or the RNC spends money to make it a habit.

Many votes are fakes - they know who votes and who doesn't.

But making a big deal of a person and taking them to the polls can get them to go vote.

And...giving those drivers some "walking around money" will bring in yet more voters. No, you can't control who someone votes for, well, usually, but hand someone $20 and tell them there is another $20 after they vote D and they are probably going to as well...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 02:01 PM (sKqQm)

211 Leftwing demographics get PAID when the Dems win elections. If the Rs win I might not get tax/inflation increases. But even that isn't guaranteed.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 01:57 PM (sKqQm)

A communist pro-Palestinian Muslim just got elected in the most Jewish city in the U.S. in a landslide by promising a lot of shit he'll never be able to deliver on. He'll blame that non-delivery on republicans, but he tried. I wish the right understood politics.

Posted by: jwest at November 25, 2025 02:01 PM (lnMN4)

212 If I may?
Fuck the GOP.
You want your phony ass jobs? Fight for them and fight for us. Otherwise you can swing, suckweasels.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 25, 2025 02:01 PM (xcxpd)

213 As I keep saying, we can't have prices fall without actual deflation, which the Fed would never allow to happen, because the downsides of deflation are too high. (People stop investing because their money is already appreciating in value if they just hoard it under the bed.)
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This is just false. People will invest if the return on investment beats leaving it under the mattress.

The Fed insists on inflation because between bank lending and federal overspending, there's value being asserted that doesn't actually exist and it has to come out of the economy somewhere. With inflation it comes out of all of our pockets in the form of higher prices. With deflation it materializes in bad loans and bank failures, which aren't any worse to the economy than inflation is, but it hurts bankers and the overly wealthy people that the Fed cares about.

The goal for the Fed should be what it was when it was founded-stable currency, which means forced deflation when there has been inflation.

Posted by: Methos at November 25, 2025 02:01 PM (vSvIl)

214 I always forget that pixy doesn't like comparative operators and I have to rely on my fortran-ese:

people are sorted into: x.lt.30000.or.x.gt.150000

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 02:02 PM (3uBP9)

215 The P/E for SnP 500 stocks went from around 7 in 1980 to around 14 at the end of Reagan in 1988, after a brief spike to 20.

Trump 45's SnP 500 started at about 24 and went to 35.
Trump 47's SnP 500 started about 27 and now is a little over 30.

To the extent The Market reflects on The Economy, and the (apparent) dependence on Markets always going UP, this may not be the greatest indicator. I don't blame Trump so much, as the decades of easy money and profligate spending (and waste/fraud).

Tariffs are helpful/necessary, but there are so many headwinds due to (near) infinite debt.

Posted by: illiniwek at November 25, 2025 02:02 PM (vbXSk)

216 The stupid 50 year mortgage plan is what is getting me. How can Trump even entertain this stupidity?
Posted by: LizLem at November 25, 2025 01:53 PM (gWBY1)

He has to know that it is stupid. I can't figure out what might be going on.
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what if you looked at it as an opening bid, something to get the Dems to counter and then get what you really wanted?

Seems like Trump has done this before .....

But, we've the all Dave Ramsey Boys all rushing to help the Dems avoid even making a counter by attacking it, so .....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 02:03 PM (T3zUV)

217 The first problem is that not many of our fellow citizens invest. About half are dependent on government handouts to survive. At least half the remainder live hand-to-mouth.

I was looking at how much money people in different age ranges have in savings and the thing that struck me most was the difference between the mean and the median meaning that there are a large number of people, even late in life, with no savings.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 02:03 PM (sKqQm)

218 Hundreds of anti-ICE protestors brought their Home Depot to a halt just by buying and returning 17-cent ice scrapers



And no one stood outside with a sign that said "These people would rather illegals invade our town than you be able to work effectively. They hate you."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 02:03 PM (Zz0t1)

219 And the problem continues to be that Trump attracted a lot of blue collar voters who, unfortunately, are not likely voters and who also do not show up to vote for other Republicans.
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And the (observably true) fact that Trump is actually doing shit, however imperfectly, whereas the GOP hasn't done anything of value when it comes to punishing those responsible for the covid scam, or reducing federal debt, or really much of anything.

Posted by: Methos at November 25, 2025 02:03 PM (vSvIl)

220 "Dickeled eggs.

Deviled eggs with a vienna weiner inserted.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 01:53 PM"
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Snort.

Posted by: Vienna Sausage aficionado at November 25, 2025 02:03 PM (wq6Zu)

221 Hundreds of anti-ICE protestors brought their Home Depot to a halt just by buying and returning 17-cent ice scrapers

Oh, my.
Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 02:01 PM (RuTUS)

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I would happily donate rolls of quarters for the employees to hand these people and tell them to f*ck off.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 02:04 PM (DRSnL)

222 Cole slaw seems like it would make a good Christmas food.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 02:04 PM (77rzZ)

223 50 year mortgage isn't necessarily a bad idea.

Usually you'll do better paying 10 years of that mortgage and then selling to buy your next house, then you would renting for 10 years and save for a down payment.

And of course if you lock in at a low rate you might be getting a loan with a lower rate then inflation...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 02:05 PM (sKqQm)

224 The propaganda gets to you. This is why I rarely watch news on TV or read left-wing newspapers.

Posted by: PG at November 25, 2025 02:06 PM (3DUTJ)

225 What's a newspaper?

Posted by: Most people at November 25, 2025 02:07 PM (wq6Zu)

226 Damn, now I want cole slaw.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 02:07 PM (77rzZ)

227 222 Cole slaw seems like it would make a good Christmas food.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 02:04 PM (77rzZ)

The 3 color Festive kind.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 02:07 PM (PCK5/)

228 Have the Republicans in Congress thought about actually doing something that they were elected to do?

Or is that just totally off the table?

Posted by: Thatch at November 25, 2025 02:08 PM (bbi0+)

229 VOTE like your life depends on it.
Because it does.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2025 02:08 PM (NpAcC)

230 This blog and a few others keep me sane, I think.

Posted by: PG at November 25, 2025 02:08 PM (3DUTJ)

231 Arrest the whitebread anti-ICE protestors and drop them in central Mexico. No deportation, they can keep their passports.

Just see if they can make it home in time for their court dates.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 02:08 PM (BI5O2)

232 139 I didn't vote in my schoolboard elections, which were "nonpartisan". I couldn't figure out who was bad, and who was worse. Tried calling the local GOP and some state "conservative" organizations. Never got an answer.

We really are bad at this.
Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2025 01:44 PM (s0JqF)


They don't reach out. Only the well funded state and national candidates send out mailers and give you their supposed stance. There's no source to go find anything. Those that put out signs usually don't even put their party affiliation on the sign anymore. I view these people as democrats ashamed of their party and not worthy of my time to actually look them up.

elections in America, especially local ones, are clusterf*cks of epic proportions. Until our side starts actually taking them seriously at ALL levels, we're doomed.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 01:47 PM (Zz0t1)
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^ ^ ^ ^
I wish we had upvotes here.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2025 02:08 PM (s0JqF)

233 Gosh, here's a crazy thought that might help lower medical costs - GET RID OF ALL THE ILLEGALS.

Posted by: Your Intrepid Reporter in Little Mogadishu at November 25, 2025 02:08 PM (H4qGm)

234 President Trump declares that last year's turkey pardons under Joe Biden are null and void because they were signed by the autopen.

He then repardons last year's turkeys so that they won't be served for Thanksgiving dinner.

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 02:09 PM (RHGPo)

235 But...high levels of either are bad because they distort the economy. Ideally you'd manage a 0% inflation rate and keep the currency value constant.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 01:50 PM (sKqQm)

To do that you have to somehow prevent the banks from loaning more than they have, in short get rid of the leverage that fractional reserve banking allows.

Something like banks issuing stablecoins backed by gold backed Treasuries, which under current consideration means that the banks can only issue the actual value of the treasuries they have in reserve, 100% backing.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 02:09 PM (rbvCR)

236 We are being conditioned for a massive cheat initiative. Perhaps.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 02:09 PM (PCK5/)

237 Wonder how CBD feels about carrots in cole slaw.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 02:09 PM (77rzZ)

238 Lying about Trump works for them.
They will intensify lying about Trump.

Posted by: torabora at November 25, 2025 02:09 PM (KtOUo)

239 The fraud isn't going to stop
The Marxists Propaganda Ministry is still working full time
The Cultural Marxism Seminaries still putting out Communists

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 02:09 PM (+qU29)

240 Is the GOP really worried about a wipeout? 'Cause it seems to me that they are trying to engineer a wipeout.

Posted by: Emmie at November 25, 2025 02:10 PM (FMtrg)

241 I didn't vote in my schoolboard elections, which were "nonpartisan". I couldn't figure out who was bad, and who was worse. Tried calling the local GOP and some state "conservative" organizations. Never got an answer.

I did the same and got the same result. I suggested I could go look at the lefty/dem groups and see who they endorsed and vote the opposite and the GOP person considered it like he'd never heard the idea and agreed it just might work.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 02:10 PM (sKqQm)

242 "A communist pro-Palestinian Muslim just got elected"

He did. But not in the way "elected" has been poeticized/romanticized.

This is The Party's guy. He ain't the result of informed voters checking boxes for the best candidate.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at November 25, 2025 02:10 PM (6qf1m)

243 How long do you think it will take to find, nominate and get a new Chairman through the Congress?

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 01:56 PM (rbvCR)

About two hours if his name is Mao.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 02:10 PM (E0p3T)

244 206 >>>Hundreds of anti-ICE protestors brought their Home Depot to a halt just by buying and returning 17-cent ice scrapers

Oh, my.
Posted by: m

Yes. Gayer than Ace, Garrett and George Takei sharing a Vespa ride while wearing messenger bags and lip gloss.

Posted by: Don't ban me, bro! at November 25, 2025 02:10 PM (JCZqz)

245 And those elections are not necessarily going to be a massive defeat.

Those elections don't have to be a massive defeat. All the Dems need is their 50%+1 and they will steamroll their past year of frustrations right through the government; they will undo everything Trump has accomplished to date, and they will prevent any more Trump accomplishments.

Hell, the Dems don't even need 50%+1. They will get their agenda in place with anything near 50%-4 because of the GOP turncoats.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at November 25, 2025 02:10 PM (bufu1)

246
GOP lawmakers say they still have time to improve their party's image before next November.

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Well, there's Ozempic, CoolSculpting, L'Oreal, Maybelline, and the What Not to Wear people.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2025 02:11 PM (RfDQK)

247 Cole slaw is good with BBQ.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 02:11 PM (Zz0t1)

248 230 This blog and a few others keep me sane, I think.
Posted by: PG at November 25, 2025 02:08 PM (3DUTJ)

#metoo

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 02:11 PM (RuTUS)

249 In my area the prices declined slightly from their peaks but are still 50% or more then they were before Biden.

And it is killing people with property taxes. Yes your house is worth more when you sell it, but if you aren't a house flipper you go that in 10-20 years...

Local government is thrilled though. They still try to get even more tax increases, but they have enough money to hire all their relatives even when they fail...
Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 01:53 PM (sKqQm)

Amen...deflation in housing prices would be a good thing for all but 65+ and planned housing sellers...the 1st, b/c they tend to have their taxes frozen, so all this property inflation never hurts them, it just gives them more assets at sale, and the 2nd b/c obviously you want to sell at a higher price.

Since 65+ aren't voting R anymore...at all...in great numbers...this would be a winning issue if somehow the sector deflated and not just leveled off...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2025 02:11 PM (tOcjL)

250 VOTE like your life depends on it.
Because it does.
Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2025 02:08 PM (NpAcC)

That's not good enough.

Nothing will ever be accomplished towards the goal of salvaging the nation as long as the GOP continues to be the party of "We're incrementally less bad than the Democrats, just don't expect us to do anything."

And I get that we've spent our entire lifetimes successfully kicking the can, so people always think it can go on a little longer, but it really cannot go on forever. Debt has to be dealt with. Along with a host of other consequences of just going along to get along.

Posted by: Methos at November 25, 2025 02:11 PM (vSvIl)

251 230 This blog and a few others keep me sane, I think.
Posted by: PG at November 25, 2025 02:08 PM (3DUTJ)

*nods*
DeviantArt and film blogs.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 25, 2025 02:11 PM (xcxpd)

252 Cole slaw is good with BBQ.
Posted by: Sponge

Yes, but I can also eat it just by itself.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 02:12 PM (77rzZ)

253 The stupid 50 year mortgage plan is what is getting me. How can Trump even entertain this stupidity?

I'm sure the banks will be benevolent landlords. Who would ever live long enough to own their own home?

Posted by: t-bird at November 25, 2025 02:12 PM (ittVa)

254 Eeyore, what I do about school board elections is check to see who the NEA (or state teachers union) endorses and then vote the opposite.

Posted by: Emmie at November 25, 2025 02:12 PM (FMtrg)

255 Its the H1-B issue!

Recent STEM college graduates cannot get jobs since the entry level positions are getting taken by Indians.

That is what is causing all the anger towards Trump.

Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at November 25, 2025 02:12 PM (uDSNN)

256
What are you thinking, maybe something like a big, televised show, with various stars and conservative speakers, a "convention" if you will, in the summer of 2028?

IDK, might work.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

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Not for 2026.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2025 02:12 PM (RfDQK)

257 Put the cole slaw on the barbeque inside the bun. It is the Way. If no cole slaw, use potato chips. This is known.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 02:12 PM (PCK5/)

258 Another thing to note:

The 2020 Congressional redraw combined with the mid-decade redraws is mostly having the effect of greatly limiting the number of on the cusp seats. More safe seats for both parties.

A Congressional swing of 40 seats is just not in the cards.

Dems may win the House next year, but it would probably be 5-10 seats, a minor win with a couple of dozen Dems in Trump won states facing a 2028 after a middling oppositional midterm. And the GOP will most likely keep the Senate (Collins should win ME again, and no, Cooper is not going to win NC).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 02:12 PM (GBKbO)

259 This is The Party's guy. He ain't the result of informed voters checking boxes for the best candidate.
Posted by: Bad Andrew at November 25, 2025 02:10 PM (6qf1m)

Where in the fuck do have informed voters checking boxes for the best candidate?

Posted by: jwest at November 25, 2025 02:12 PM (lnMN4)

260 I live on the outskirts of one of the fastest growing cities in America.

We bought our house 2 years ago.

Last week, a house sold that's almost 1,000 sq feet larger than ours, in the same neighborhood under the same HOA and everything, for about $20,000 less than what we bought ours for.

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This is real, and an example of Powell being part of the problem. At the moment, sellers outnumber buyers nationally (individual markets may vary). A 6.125% interest rate may not be *objectively* "high", but were Powell out the rates would likely be mid-to-high 5s. And because too many people are aware that it will likely change (lower) in 6 months, we're going to have a very difficult time for sellers in the next 6 months. Too many people who might want a bigger backyard or an additional bedroom have convinced themselves they can wait a few more months.

Posted by: Crusader, Realtor at November 25, 2025 02:13 PM (TN0g+)

261 As others have written here, the people who need to “make the case” for voting republican are republican lawmakers. Start passing some of Trump’s executive orders into law. Show that individual votes matter by passing real election integrity laws. Start addressing, grift by grift, all of the corruption discovered by DOGE and revealed by whistleblowers.

What is Trump supposed to say at this hypothetical national address? Yeah, I know they still hate you and me and refuse to do what they’ve been promising for years but vote for them anyway? Lie and say that’s not what’s happening?

If republicans lose the midterms it will be the fault of a republican congress that refuses to speak to Trump voters. Not because Trump chooses not to betray Trump voters by lying to them.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 25, 2025 02:13 PM (olroh)

262 Is the GOP really worried about a wipeout? 'Cause it seems to me that they are trying to engineer a wipeout.
Posted by: Emmie at November 25, 2025 02:10 PM (FMtrg)

I think we'll know if a bunch of House members jump ship like during the first Trump administration.

Hopefully, MTG is a loner in this endeavor.

Oh, yeah and hopefully she gets a blazing case of the ass-fungus now plaguing Old Blighty.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 25, 2025 02:13 PM (iJfKG)

263 Leftists already have probably a dozen impeachments charges lined up

Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 25, 2025 02:14 PM (mnLCl)

264 Well, the truth - the inflation will not be undone, you are poorer - is not much of a campaign slogan.

Setting that aside, the GOP is not acting like a party that wants to stay in power.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 25, 2025 02:14 PM (cl15i)

265 Setting that aside, the GOP is not acting like a party that wants to stay in power.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 25, 2025 02:14 PM (cl15i)

Bear gets it

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 25, 2025 02:15 PM (xcxpd)

266 In it, a speaker identified as Bally is heard saying, “We have s**t for f***king poor people. Who buys our s**t? I don’t buy Campbell’s products barely anymore. It’s not healthy now that I know what the f**‘s in it.”

He also referenced “bioengineered meat,” saying, “I don’t wanna eat a piece of chicken that came from a 3D printer.”

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 02:15 PM (RHGPo)

267 Were you going to buy a takeout coleslaw at a fancy gourmet shop? Because that would be fine, I think. Or made at home if you have a super-great recipe.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 02:15 PM (RuTUS)

268 "Where in the fuck do have informed voters checking boxes for the best candidate?"

Good question. I'm sure there are some out there somewhere. You'd have to do some on the ground investigation to find them, I think.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at November 25, 2025 02:15 PM (6qf1m)

269 Charlie kirk was good at getting out the vote and they killed him

Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 25, 2025 02:15 PM (mnLCl)

270 All of the actors who persecuted Trump in the past are still in place. There may be an exception or to, but essentially they are patiently biding their time.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 02:16 PM (PCK5/)

271 266 In it, a speaker identified as Bally is heard saying, “We have s**t for f***king poor people. Who buys our s**t? I don’t buy Campbell’s products barely anymore. It’s not healthy now that I know what the f**‘s in it.”

He also referenced “bioengineered meat,” saying, “I don’t wanna eat a piece of chicken that came from a 3D printer.”
Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 02:15 PM (RHGPo)

He seems to have made up the last part...unless Campbell's will be under investigation for fraud...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2025 02:16 PM (tOcjL)

272 Did the Pilgrims eat cole slaw at the first Thanksgiving?

Posted by: Now I'm curious at November 25, 2025 02:16 PM (wq6Zu)

273 "And the problem continues to be that Trump attracted a lot of blue collar voters who, unfortunately, are not likely voters and who also do not show up to vote for other Republicans. They like Trump, seeing him as a different kind of Republican who appeals to union hall Democrats, but they do not like other Republicans, and Trump has never been able to convince them to vote for other Republicans."

Trump came into 2.0 with a plan to help blue-collar America: bring US jobs back from overseas. Everything that he's done domestically is to serve that purpose. Immediate depreciation on capital expenditures, tariffs to encourage domestic production, kicking illegals out of the country and discouraging new ones from coming in - all of it is to serve these purposes.

When Hawaii judges, Fed chairmen, Deep State holdouts, RINOs and Democrats fight against this, and the remaining House and Senate Republicans either don't fight back or rush to compromise with the enemy, it serves to set Trump's stated agenda backwards. If Rs keep up with this, they will pay the price. And deservedly so.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 25, 2025 02:16 PM (0CU3H)

274 272 Did the Pilgrims eat cole slaw at the first Thanksgiving?
Posted by: Now I'm curious at November 25, 2025 02:16 PM (wq6Zu)

Acorn pudding.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 02:17 PM (PCK5/)

275 My fear is that Trump may prove to be merely the Indian summer of our republic, and that the Democrats will carry us all off to a wintry perdition that may last a very long time.


Its my opinion that unless JD is elected in 2028, the outcome you describe is inevitable.

Posted by: Defenestratus at November 25, 2025 02:17 PM (WYStd)

276 272 Did the Pilgrims eat cole slaw at the first Thanksgiving?
Posted by: Now I'm curious at November 25, 2025 02:16 PM (wq6Zu)

Carrots grow wild. They might have had carrot slaw.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 02:17 PM (RuTUS)

277 Is the GOP really worried about a wipeout? 'Cause it seems to me that they are trying to engineer a wipeout.

Yes times a thousand.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 25, 2025 02:17 PM (olroh)

278 So like the GOPe to refuse to support Trump, then bitch that he's failing him.

Long past time the Loser Party woke up and realized nobody voted for them in November, 2024 - it was all for Trump.

Posted by: Galt at November 25, 2025 02:17 PM (cC5pN)

279 What is Trump supposed to say at this hypothetical national address?

I hope it starts with "My fellow Americans...".

Announcing some big arrests would keep spirits up.

Posted by: t-bird at November 25, 2025 02:17 PM (ittVa)

280 A 6.125% interest rate may not be *objectively* "high", but were Powell out the rates would likely be mid-to-high 5s.

it's just so frustrating bc we all remember the endless 0 percent fed rates for Dem administrations.

it's so nakedly political at this point

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 02:17 PM (emBoF)

281 >>> He also referenced “bioengineered meat,” saying, “I don’t wanna eat a piece of chicken that came from a 3D printer.”
Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 02:15 PM (RHGPo)


"Meat" in these sort of things is formed from a puree of animal parts and a binder for many decades, back when only scify authors were thinking of printing meat.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 02:18 PM (3uBP9)

282 Start passing some of Trump’s executive orders into law

And as an addendum to this - if you really can't get some of Trump's items passed, make legislation covering the strongest case for it anyway and let the Dems kill it in the Senate/House.

This gives ammo to House/Senate candidates running in '26.

There is way too much "why bother trying if we aren't pretty sure we'll win?"

For example imagine making the Dems filibuster no healthcare dollars for illegals?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 02:18 PM (sKqQm)

283 Did the Pilgrims eat cole slaw at the first Thanksgiving?
Posted by: Now I'm curious at November 25, 2025 02:16 PM (wq6Zu)


The Indians brought cole slaw, which they called "maize".

Posted by: naturalfake at November 25, 2025 02:18 PM (iJfKG)

284 Conservatives have this silly notion that staying home and letting liberals win elections is some sort of "we'll show them!" act that will somehow work in their favor in the long run.

It won't.

You'll lose your freedom.

You'll lose your way of life.

Stop doing such a stupid f*cking retarded thing.

Dipshits.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 02:18 PM (Zz0t1)

285 Its my opinion that unless JD is elected in 2028, the outcome you describe is inevitable.


JD or Ron

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 02:18 PM (emBoF)

286 189 My wife made a real pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving. I'm diabetic and shouldn't eat any of it, but I'm gonna have some anyway.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 01:57 PM (77rzZ)

In your wife's defense, it's probably the healthiest pie possible to make, especially for a diabetic, since its sugar load is lower than most pies...

Aka, she chose well for your cheat.

Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2025 02:18 PM (tOcjL)

287
Hell, the Dems don't even need 50%+1. They will get their agenda in place with anything near 50%-4 because of the GOP turncoats.
Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at November 25, 2025 02:10 PM (bufu1)

Correct. This is how the Republicans can always backstop the Democrats.

Without regard to the bad days when 38 representatives simultaneously retire, or the House GOP votes down a Republican President's singular legislation, or sits idly by as he's impeached, you have the "good" days when a faction of the Senate GOP caucus just bails out the Democrats.

Whereas the Democrats will pull an historic Party line vote in the middle of the night for Obamacare, or impeach a President on the flimsiest charge.

It's a shell game.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 02:18 PM (BI5O2)

288 The cheap stuff. From the grocery store.

Posted by: Tightwad Thanksgiving guest at November 25, 2025 02:18 PM (tkslY)

289 283 Did the Pilgrims eat cole slaw at the first Thanksgiving?
Posted by: Now I'm curious at November 25, 2025 02:16 PM (wq6Zu)

The Indians brought cole slaw, which they called "maize".

Posted by: naturalfake at November 25, 2025 02:18 PM (iJfKG)

naturalfake, I snorted.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 02:19 PM (RuTUS)

290 Nova Local is correct! a homemade pumpkin pie is a very healthy pie (for a pie, lol)

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 02:19 PM (emBoF)

291 270 All of the actors who persecuted Trump in the past are still in place. There may be an exception or to, but essentially they are patiently biding their time.
Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 02:16 PM (PCK5/)

But a lot of them are right on Dick Cheney's heels.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 02:19 PM (uWKK8)

292 284 Conservatives have this silly notion that staying home and letting liberals win elections is some sort of "we'll show them!" act that will somehow work in their favor in the long run.

It won't.

You'll lose your freedom.

You'll lose your way of life.

Stop doing such a stupid f*cking retarded thing.

Dipshits.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 02:18 PM (Zz0t1)

But Trump said "pussy"! We can't have such a crass fellow as our standardbearer!

Posted by: Silly conservatives staying home at November 25, 2025 02:19 PM (TbWk/)

293 Did the Pilgrims eat cole slaw at the first Thanksgiving?
Posted by: Now I'm curious

The Indians used every part of the cole.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 02:19 PM (77rzZ)

294 288 The cheap stuff. From the grocery store.
Posted by: Tightwad Thanksgiving guest at November 25, 2025 02:18 PM (tkslY)

Well, some grocery stores have nice little gourmet corners. But not just a dry bag of shredded lettuce and carrot, no.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 02:20 PM (RuTUS)

295 I hope it starts with "My fellow Americans...".

My fellow citizens? Just to piss off the right people.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 25, 2025 02:20 PM (JCZqz)

296 "Everybody else has fucked us. We should be using this dude as a template, not a whipping boy."

That's no way to operate a circular firing squad.

Posted by: Z, no not him. A different Z at November 25, 2025 02:20 PM (89Sog)

297 I can't believe I like Rueben Gallego now

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 02:20 PM (emBoF)

298 I hope it starts with "My fellow Americans...".

Announcing some big arrests would keep spirits up.
Posted by: t-bird at November 25, 2025 02:17 PM (ittVa)

In my haste, I misread that second line as "Announcing some big breasts ..."

And I thought, "This t-bird guy fucking gets it!"

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 25, 2025 02:20 PM (cl15i)

299 278 So like the GOPe to refuse to support Trump, then bitch that he's failing him.

Long past time the Loser Party woke up and realized nobody voted for them in November, 2024 - it was all for Trump.
Posted by: Galt at November 25, 2025 02:17 PM (cC5pN)

To be fair to them for just today, his health plan as planned for proposal yesterday was a disaster...it was a return to his 90s big spending self, when we just got rid of the subsidies...

Johnson spoke out about not having the votes and I think that's the 1st time he and Trump have ever differed so far this admin (and Johnson is right - there's no way he has the votes in this House)...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2025 02:21 PM (tOcjL)

300 291 270 All of the actors who persecuted Trump in the past are still in place. There may be an exception or to, but essentially they are patiently biding their time.
Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 02:16 PM (PCK5/)

But a lot of them are right on Dick Cheney's heels.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 02:19 PM (uWKK

Do you want to know who the holdouts are? The ones who attended Cheney's funeral, as well as the Democrats who were with them. This is the Deep State.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 25, 2025 02:21 PM (0CU3H)

301 He's losing support from independents because he's gone off on wild tangents instead of sticking to his campaign promises.

Posted by: Harlock at November 25, 2025 02:21 PM (/zHnW)

302 301 He's losing support from independents because he's gone off on wild tangents instead of sticking to his campaign promises.


very fair

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 02:21 PM (emBoF)

303 293 Did the Pilgrims eat cole slaw at the first Thanksgiving?
Posted by: Now I'm curious

The Indians used every part of the cole.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 02:19 PM (77rzZ)

And pine trees. Many parts are edible.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 02:21 PM (RuTUS)

304 In your wife's defense, it's probably the healthiest pie possible to make, especially for a diabetic, since its sugar load is lower than most pies...

Aka, she chose well for your cheat.
Posted by: Nova Local

Thanks for letting me know. Now I can lower my guilt level.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 02:22 PM (77rzZ)

305 284 Conservatives have this silly notion that staying home and letting liberals win elections is some sort of "we'll show them!" act that will somehow work in their favor in the long run.
Posted by: Sponge

Let's be fair...I don't think the staff at The Bulwark pretend to be conservative anymore.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 25, 2025 02:22 PM (JCZqz)

306
Reminder: Last week, Secretary of Agriculture Rollins told Laura Ingraham she had some action coming up this week that we would like. I'd say she has until the end of tomorrow to announce it. It related to SNAP fraud.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2025 02:22 PM (RfDQK)

307 In my haste, I misread that second line as "Announcing some big breasts ..."

And I thought, "This t-bird guy fucking gets it!"
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 25, 2025 02:20 PM (cl15i)


I have an announcement........


https://is.gd/3Nbow3

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 02:22 PM (Zz0t1)

308 Do you want to know who the holdouts are? The ones who attended Cheney's funeral, as well as the Democrats who were with them. This is the Deep State.
--------
I though those pictures were amazing. It was like they all got together for a deep state convention, or reunion.

Posted by: Crusader at November 25, 2025 02:22 PM (TN0g+)

309 In my haste, I misread that second line as "Announcing some big breasts ..."

And I thought, "This t-bird guy fucking gets it!"
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

I didn't want to get greedy!

Posted by: t-bird at November 25, 2025 02:23 PM (ittVa)

310 297 I can't believe I like Rueben Gallego now
Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 02:20 PM

+++
I think it might be a big hit to serve hot reuben sandwiches for Thanksgiving.

Posted by: On marble rye at November 25, 2025 02:23 PM (tkslY)

311 293 Did the Pilgrims eat cole slaw at the first Thanksgiving?
Posted by: Now I'm curious

The Indians used every part of the cole.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 02:19 PM (77rzZ)

They would stampede entire herds of cole over cliffs, then pick up only a few select shreds leaving the rest to rot. Then find another herd to stampede.

Posted by: They overslaw much wasteful slawter at November 25, 2025 02:23 PM (TbWk/)

312 This is real, and an example of Powell being part of the problem. At the moment, sellers outnumber buyers nationally (individual markets may vary). A 6.125% interest rate may not be *objectively* "high", but were Powell out the rates would likely be mid-to-high 5s. And because too many people are aware that it will likely change (lower) in 6 months, we're going to have a very difficult time for sellers in the next 6 months. Too many people who might want a bigger backyard or an additional bedroom have convinced themselves they can wait a few more months.
Posted by: Crusader, Realtor at November 25, 2025 02:13 PM (TN0g+)

This is Krugman's argument against deflation and his reasoning of the Liquidity trap
I didn't believe it when Krugman used it.

The outcome is that houses will get cheaper, not that the house market will freeze solid.

I would ask instead if it is harder to get a home mortgage now than when I got mine in 2011

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 02:23 PM (rbvCR)

313 How about everyone stop whinging about it, and start getting out the vote and such?

Posted by: GWB at November 25, 2025 02:23 PM (3HYnV)

314 Long past time the Loser Party woke up and realized nobody voted for them in November, 2024 - it was all for Trump.
Posted by: Galt at November 25, 2025 02:17 PM (cC5pN)

To be fair to them for just today, his health plan as planned for proposal yesterday was a disaster...it was a return to his 90s big spending self, when we just got rid of the subsidies...

Johnson spoke out about not having the votes and I think that's the 1st time he and Trump have ever differed so far this admin (and Johnson is right - there's no way he has the votes in this House)...
Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2025 02:21 PM (tOcjL)

Until and unless someone from Congress has the stones to say 'withdraw all subsidies and let the free-market determine medical prices' absolutely nothing will happen. The ideas can't come from Trump but from the people who voted to repeal Obamacare 177 thousand times. They've had long enough to come up with a plan. Let's hear them tell us.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 25, 2025 02:23 PM (0CU3H)

315 The midterms are the sole reason for all the crazy stuff Democrats are doing right now. Telling our troops to disobey orders, claiming that Trump is deporting American citizens...everything.
They need to keep their base angry, hateful and terrified. Because angry, hateful and terrified people vote.

Posted by: 29Victor at November 25, 2025 02:23 PM (0MjtC)

316 306 Reminder: Last week, Secretary of Agriculture Rollins told Laura Ingraham she had some action coming up this week that we would like. I'd say she has until the end of tomorrow to announce it. It related to SNAP fraud.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2025 02:22 PM (RfDQK)

Maybe it's this?

87 Saw a headline that the Trump admin is forcing everyone on SNAP to reapply.
--
this is true

actually a friend of mine posted the new application form - she is PISSED

she's also morbidly obese. her "disability" is not being able to walk good bc she weighs 300 pounds. she "failed" her gastric bypass.

anyway I loved the form! it was perfection. really good stuff.

the admin is doing everything it can, really. it's falling down on the visa thing, but if we keep the pressure on there they should eventually "get it."
Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 01:39 PM (emBoF)

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 02:24 PM (RuTUS)

317 Whinging = Whining yes??

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 02:24 PM (PCK5/)

318
The Indians brought cole slaw, which they called "maize".

Posted by: naturalfake

=============

I have it on very good authority that the Cherokee brought Cold Crab Omelets when they sat down with the Pilgrims.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2025 02:24 PM (RfDQK)

319 I have an announcement........


https://is.gd/3Nbow3
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 02:22 PM (Zz0t1)

You transitioned?

Posted by: Call him Emerson. Emerson big tiddies. at November 25, 2025 02:24 PM (TbWk/)

320 Conservatives have this silly notion that staying home and letting liberals win elections is some sort of "we'll show them!" act that will somehow work in their favor in the long run.
-
No they aren't, and you're being unserious asserting so.

What happens *every single time* is the Republican Congress destroys the morale of voters by failing to do anything other than coast. Until they behave like elections matter, there's no reason for the rest of us to pretend they do.

Folks are currently enjoying that fantasy that the GOP 'won' the shutdown because more lefties are complaining about how it went than anyone else, but at the end of the day, all they did was continuing spending at levels the left achieved the last time they were in power.

Posted by: Methos at November 25, 2025 02:24 PM (vSvIl)

321 He's losing support from independents because he's gone off on wild tangents instead of sticking to his campaign promises.
Posted by: Harlock at November 25, 2025 02:21 PM (/zHnW)

I know, how DARE the President focus on international conflicts we are embroiled in and threaten our security instead of things he hasn't gotten around to yet in one year.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 02:24 PM (rbvCR)

322 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 02:25 PM (Zz0t1)

323 311 293 Did the Pilgrims eat cole slaw at the first Thanksgiving?
Posted by: Now I'm curious

The Indians used every part of the cole.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 02:19 PM (77rzZ)

They would stampede entire herds of cole over cliffs, then pick up only a few select shreds leaving the rest to rot.
Posted by: They overslaw much wasteful slawter at November 25, 2025 02:23 PM (TbWk/)

The shreddings.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 02:25 PM (RuTUS)

324 Well, at least she won't drown.

Posted by: Just the punchline at November 25, 2025 02:25 PM (tkslY)

325 Prices aren’t going to go back down. The Biden inflation represents a permanent reduction in the value of a US dollar. Your purchasing power has been stolen. They ate it. You don’t get it back

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 02:25 PM (RHGPo)

326 To be fair to them for just today, his health plan as planned for proposal yesterday was a disaster...it was a return to his 90s big spending self, when we just got rid of the subsidies...

Johnson spoke out about not having the votes and I think that's the 1st time he and Trump have ever differed so far this admin (and Johnson is right - there's no way he has the votes in this House)...
Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2025 02:21 PM (tOcjL)

Until and unless someone from Congress has the stones to say 'withdraw all subsidies and let the free-market determine medical prices' absolutely nothing will happen. The ideas can't come from Trump but from the people who voted to repeal Obamacare 177 thousand times. They've had long enough to come up with a plan. Let's hear them tell us.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 25, 2025 02:23 PM (0CU3H)

This is the Rs start to getting rid of subsidies...they actually got rid of the bonus ones and did not keep an entitlement for big business forever...it's a huge win that Trump was trying to undo. I mean, planning to announce a 2 year extension was insanity right now. Better to let them go, and see how January goes and make a decision.

Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2025 02:25 PM (tOcjL)

327 If an errant Tomahawk Land Attack Missile had a whoopsie and accidentally hit the National Cathedral during Dick Cheney's funeral I would be sad for the damage to a beautiful church, but it would probably would have done a lot toward saving this republic.

Posted by: ballistic at November 25, 2025 02:25 PM (3BwY8)

328 313 How about everyone stop whinging about it, and start getting out the vote and such?
Posted by: GWB at November 25, 2025 02:23 PM (3HYnV)

The Republicans need to give us something to work to get out the vote for.

Johnson has been the best Speaker we've had so far since Newt, but we don't need anymore Massies or Cornyns in there sniping from the peanut gallery. Until the GOP corpus tells them to go pound sand, the base isn't getting out there for anyone who doesn't fight.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 25, 2025 02:25 PM (0CU3H)

329 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 25, 2025 02:26 PM (NcvvS)

330 Charlie kirk was good at getting out the vote and they killed him
Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 25, 2025 02:15 PM (mnLCl)

amazingly enough he was also starting to talk how corporations buying up housing to rent out was squeezing new home buyers out of the market and giving them the option of living in apartments or living in rental housing for the rest of their lives instead of being home owners.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 02:26 PM (rbvCR)

331 317 Whinging = Whining yes??
Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 02:24 PM (PCK5/)

whinge | British English
verb (whinges, whingeing | or whinging, whinged)

complain persistently and in a peevish or irritating way: stop whingeing and get on with it!.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 02:26 PM (RuTUS)

332 Have TJM on the spit screen
So far no Samurai movies

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 02:27 PM (+qU29)

333 How about everyone stop whinging about it, and start getting out the vote and such?
Posted by: GWB at November 25, 2025 02:23 PM (3HYnV)

The rumor is that in our state we vote so hard we have up to 125% voter turnout every major election

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 02:27 PM (rbvCR)

334 Remember:
There are 2-3 major SCOTUS rulings hanging out there that could change 2026.

1) the minority-majority ruling.
2) the mail-in ballot ruling
3) the TX redistricting

AS for #1, maybe only FL, GA, MO and TN might be able to redistrict in time if that goes our way within the next few weeks.

Filing deadlines for candidates:
AL 1-23-26
AR 11-11-25
FL 4-24-26
GA 3-6-26
KY 1-9-26
LA 2-13-26
MO 3-31-26
NC 12-19-25
TN 3-10-26
TX 12-8-25
WV 1-31-26

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 02:28 PM (T3zUV)

335 Stop doing such a stupid f*cking retarded thing.

Dipshits.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 02:18 PM (Zz0t1)

But Trump said "pussy"! We can't have such a crass fellow as our standardbearer!
Posted by: Silly conservatives staying home at November 25, 2025 02:19 PM (TbWk/)

Just going by my own outlook... If I vote for Dems, I get a bad Congress that can't do its job.

If I vote for Repubs... I get a bad Congress who can't do its job.

And that is if my vote even counts...

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 02:28 PM (mP0Kj)

336 Nothing will ever be accomplished towards the goal of salvaging the nation as long as the GOP continues to be the party of "We're incrementally less bad than the Democrats, just don't expect us to do anything."

And I get that we've spent our entire lifetimes successfully kicking the can, so people always think it can go on a little longer, but it really cannot go on forever. Debt has to be dealt with. Along with a host of other consequences of just going along to get along.
Posted by: Methos at November 25, 2025 02:11 PM (vSvIl)
********
The Democrat party and the Republican party are not the same.

The Dems are the party of socialism, defund the police, crime, trans rights, mutilating children, sexualizing children, censorship, taking God out of everything, prioritizing illegals.. Muslim culture, Men in women's locker rooms and sports, DEI.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2025 02:29 PM (NpAcC)

337 It would be safe to lump them all together

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 02:31 PM (+qU29)

338 Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 02:28 PM (T3zUV)

It amazes me that there is a complete lack of urgency by the Supremes. The Power of the Congress can easily depend on a couple of cases THEY ALREADY HEARD, but just have not ruled on... and with election deadlines looming, and court cases being decided... it would be in the best interest of the Nation for them to get off their collective Asses and get the job done.

Because any ruling on Calif or Texas, will have to go back to court, based on what their ruling is... which won't happen before the election.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 02:32 PM (mP0Kj)

339 What happens every single time is the Republican Congress destroys the morale of voters by failing to do anything other than coast.

Or “trying” to pass big omnibus bills such as a self defense rights bill that is loaded up with everything and so guaranteed to gain enough opponents to fail. In every conservative issue there are 80/20 points that can be passed on their own. But republicans don’t bring those up on their own because they might pass.

Trump cannot convince his voters to vote for republicans. Only republicans can do that. Because they aren’t his voters. He is their candidate. Republican lawmakers must choose to be their candidate, too, if they want those votes.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 25, 2025 02:32 PM (olroh)

340 "I know, how DARE the President focus on international conflicts we are embroiled in and threaten our security instead of things he hasn't gotten around to yet in one year."

This is Boomer Republicanism, and this is why the party is in dire dire straits. This "Government by Tom Clancy novels." is going to lead to an epic midterm wipeout. You're going to have Hakeem Jeffries as Speaker of the House, and Alexandra Ocasio Cortez is going to be running the impeachment hearings.

People do not want to hear, as healthcare costs spike, that anything being done about it is "socialism!!!!!" and that the President is very very busy with peace in the Middle East. Donald Trump is doing the usual 2nd term POTUS thing and trying to notch a Big Foreign Policy Legacy. But that's not what he was elected to do, and it's not what energizes the Donald Trump voter.

The country, the American nation, is actually in really bad shape. I don't know that it can all be fixed in one term. But it certainly will not be fixed if the White House is focused on foreign policy. He was elected on a sweeping domestic agenda, he was not elected to bring peace to the Middle East or to Eastern Europe.


Posted by: Vick King at November 25, 2025 02:36 PM (SPxB8)

341 So… hair on fire, over the opinion of Thom Tillis, who quit because he couldn’t win a primary, and… schmolls.

Ok, I guess.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at November 25, 2025 02:41 PM (NBcgk)

342 GOP worried about midterms?? LOL

the GOP is working hard across the isle to insure they lose the house so impeachment part 3 can happen.

Posted by: Esperman at November 25, 2025 02:46 PM (8MPpG)

343 I know, how DARE the President focus on international conflicts we are embroiled in and threaten our security instead of things he hasn't gotten around to yet in one year.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 02:24 PM (rbvCR)

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If you think that this is a winning move, then hold onto your hat.

Posted by: Harlock at November 25, 2025 03:13 PM (/zHnW)

344 Congressional elections in 6th year of presidency

Eisenhower 1958
lost 49 seats
JFK/LBJ 1966
Lost 47 seats
Nixon/Ford 1974
Lost 45 seats
Reagan 1986
Lost 4 seats
Clinton 1998
Gained 4 seats
W Bush 2006
Lost 30 seats
Barky 2014
Lost 13 seats

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at November 25, 2025 03:17 PM (wGerL)

345 He should be worried. He completely fucked over his base.

Posted by: Resist_we_much at November 25, 2025 03:18 PM (cpys8)

346 Right after ww2 the country was young and horny.

Which is a good sign of health.

Posted by: thug dolphin at November 25, 2025 03:22 PM (EyfuW)

347 Democrats will turn out by the millions, most of them insane enough to vote for Hannibal the Cannibal if he has a "D" behind his name. We saw how opposition research fizzled in the recent special elections.

Posted by: MartynWW at November 25, 2025 03:22 PM (+1tao)

348 It will be real easy for Trump to pull the economy back - end high taxes for imports, aka Tariffs. They are driving up costs everywhere. I get the goal, but the implementation is terrible. If the tariffs were offset by lower income taxes, that's fine! But instead, Americans are paying more taxes.

He has done so much good, but this tariff craze is harming that!

Posted by: Patrick Henry, the 2nd at November 25, 2025 03:43 PM (dQqhc)

349 "The stupid 50 year mortgage plan is what is getting me. How can Trump even entertain this stupidity?"

Renting for 50 is smarter? Your elitest is showing.

Posted by: connected and litigious at November 25, 2025 03:56 PM (s9EN2)

350 "So I've been watching the economy looking for signs of a big turn. Trump had one in his first term. It was like magic -- Obama out, Trump in, and the economy started growing.

But that's not happening now. Or, rather, yes, there is some improvement, but it's a subtle improvement that voters can ignore, and based on Trump's slipping approval, they seem to be ignoring it now. Reagan I and Trump I had big enough economic expansions that voters couldn't ignore it, and even when Reagan's 1984 opponent Walter Mondale tried to deny it, they rejected that denial as delusional."

6% deficit means its very very hard to cut spending, remove illegal workers, and also get growth.

Posted by: coba at November 25, 2025 04:02 PM (IuIym)

351 It's the Ballroom! All those unlikely blue-collar voters just want him to finish his gilded legacy on the East Wing and throw more Gatsby balls.

Posted by: Marleys Ghost at November 25, 2025 04:12 PM (uxXx0)

352 "It will be real easy for Trump to pull the economy back - end high taxes for imports, aka Tariffs. They are driving up costs everywhere. I get the goal, but the implementation is terrible. If the tariffs were offset by lower income taxes, that's fine! But instead, Americans are paying more taxes.


Nah. Trump treats tariffs like John Holmes treated his junk; he gets off by using it to show everyone who the Alpha is.

When he's done handing us off to the ones who will never relinquish power, I wish nothing but fire and brimstone for him. He never cared about anyone but himself.

Posted by: Marleys Ghost at November 25, 2025 04:14 PM (uxXx0)

353 Generic ballot polls are useless and way too slanted ... no way given their stated policies are the Democrats going to take Congress ... all the places they cheat are already navy blue seats ... they can't cheat in purple or red seats (the cities that they use to cheat aren't in those districts) ...

and

"The stupid 50 year mortgage plan is what is getting me. How can Trump even entertain this stupidity?"

heh moron ... the average mortgage lasts 7 years ... nobody actually takes out a 20 or 30 or 50 year mortgage and actually pays it down ... they move and the mortgage goes away ...

Posted by: The Dark Lord at November 25, 2025 04:52 PM (DBAaD)

354 Maybe if the Republican Congress got off their asses and actually DID something, they wouldn't have time to worry about next year's elections.

Because - work with me here - those elections would take care of themselves.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at November 25, 2025 06:32 PM (pkhvN)

355 Oh, and fuck Thom Tillis.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at November 25, 2025 06:33 PM (pkhvN)

356 If you refuse to support the American People your career is over

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at November 25, 2025 06:36 PM (wGqjj)

357 I mean the unusual growth of 500k voters in NJ for Gov/off year elections, over the pretty static numbers for those elections the last 20 years. (twice the actual growth of registered voters in the state) has a lot to do with it. Shockingly the PA election had the same amount of growth for a pretty low enthusiasm and often not cared about election. Another shock is how the Republican numbers would have beat the Dem from 4 years earlier, but most of those 500k went to the dem.

For years they said Republicans had to control elections to stop the cheating, so they can win, but they've completely ignored that.

Posted by: Rbastid at November 25, 2025 07:37 PM (KFJEU)

Under Questioning By, Surprisingly, the Leftwing Media, Democrats Admit They Can't Name Any Illegal Orders Trump Has Issued

Seditious Senator Mark Kelly, who's currently under investigation for a possible court martial for urging US troops to defy their Commander in Chief, ran to Rachel Maddow to whip up the hard left to support him.

Even there, though, he was forced to admit that Trump never issued an illegal order.

MADDOW: "When you and your colleagues made that video, were there specific, potentially illegal orders that you were thinking about that were the sort of precipitating cause for you guys to get together and do that?"

KELLY: "Here's the thing, Rachel. You don't want to wait for your kid to get hit by a car before you tell them to look both ways."

So he's admitting he's urging troops to defy the Commander in Chief based on their own guess as to what is or is not an illegal order, and even threatening that a future Democrat president may imprison them for not defying Trump -- and this is all based on nothing except the always-present hypothetical possibility that an illegal order could, maybe, possibly be issued in the future.


AWFL and CIA C*nt Elissa Slotkin likewise admitted no illegal orders had been issued to ABC's cadaverous wallflower Martha Raddatz.

At JusttheNews, Jerry Dunleavy writes about the threat Democrats are making to prosecute troops for obeying the duly-elected Constitutional Commander-in-Chief.


'Sedition'? Democrat bid to foment Trump resistance inside U.S. military draws blowback

Democrats also made thinly-veiled threats that U.S. troops and spies will be in legal jeopardy if they don't defy such alleged orders.


Democrats released a video last Tuesday purporting to support U.S. service members and intelligence officers who would defy illegal orders, but some of those Democrats have also made thinly-veiled threats that U.S. troops and spies will be in legal jeopardy if they don't defy such alleged orders.

The half dozen Democrats from the House and Senate -- five of them veterans of of the U.S. military and one a former CIA analyst -- released a video that argued that "you must refuse illegal orders" and professed to servicemembers that "we have your back."

But a number of the Democrats in the video have strongly implied that troops who don't disobey orders that the Democrats believe to be illegal could face criminal prosecution, with the Democrats conjuring warnings tied to prior prosecutions of Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg, of U.S. Marines in the film A Few Good Men, of troops stationed at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, and of soldiers involved in the My Lai massacre in South Vietnam, implying current U.S. troops could face the same fate.

The congressional Democrats were also not on the same page about whether the U.S. military was currently engaging in illegal activities, with some Democrats admitting that they were not sure if any current U.S. military actions were illegal, while others have previously said or are currently saying that U.S. troop deployments to American cities and U.S. strikes against Venezuelan drug-running boats are illegal.


...

The Democrats released a joint statement on Thursday saying, "What's most telling is that the President considers it punishable by death for us to restate the law. Our service members should know that we have their backs as they fulfill their oath to the Constitution and obligation to follow only lawful orders."

Secretary of the Department of War Pete Hegseth said on X on Monday that five of the six Democrats in the video don't fall under the jurisdiction of the Department of War and the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) because "one is CIA and four are former military but not 'retired', so they are no longer subject to UCMJ" but that "Mark Kelly (retired Navy Commander) is still subject to UCMJ -- and he knows that."

...

The video continued: "Our laws are clear: You can refuse illegal orders. You must refuse illegal orders. No one has to carry out orders that violate the law or our Constitution. We know this is hard and that it's a difficult time to be a public servant. But whether you're serving in the CIA, the Army, our Navy, the Air Force -- your vigilance is critical, and know that we have your back. Because now, more than ever, the American people need you. We need you to stand up for our laws, our Constitution, and who we are as Americans. Don't give up, don't give up, don't give up, don't give up the ship!"

The six Democratic congressional offices did not immediately respond to requests for comment sent to them by Just the News.

A number of the Democrats in the video have suggested that U.S. troops could be prosecuted for following purportedly illegal orders issued by President Trump or Secretary Hegseth. As of publication time, none of the orders issued by either Trump or Hegseth have been declared "illegal" by any court or authoritative body of law.

Houlahan told MSNBC on Saturday that the point of the video was to tell U.S. service members that "we've got your back." But this message was seemingly diluted by other Democrats in the video hinting at potential prosecutions.

Slotkin appeared Sunday on ABC News' This Week talking about how U.S. service members can figure out whether an order is illegal, and the Democratic senator immediately brought up the Nuremberg trials against Nazi war criminals and the movie A Few Good Men where Marines are prosecuted at Guantánamo Bay.

"I don't -- I mean, going back to Nuremberg, right, that 'well, they told me to do it, that's why I murdered people' is not an excuse. If you look at popular culture, like, you watch, you know, A Few Good Men, like we have plenty of examples since World War II, in Vietnam, where people were told to follow illegal orders, and they did it, and they were prosecuted for it," Slotkin said. "So, the best thing for people to do is go to their JAG [judge advocate general] officer, their local law enforcement, or a legal officer in their unit, and ask for some explanation, ask for help. And that's what we've been advising people to do."

J.D. Vance called the Democrats' demand that troops guess which orders are illegal and defy those orders they guess are illegal an illegal suggestion itself, because the military specifically forbids troops guessing whether orders or legal or not. The military only says troops may defy orders that are manifestly illegal, -- obviously illegal, on-its-face illegal, no question about it illegal -- not "possibly illegal" or "arguably illegal" or "Rachel Maddow told me it was illegal."

Otherwise, think about it: Military orders mean nothing. Every single troop would be empowered to refuse any order, claiming that in his personal, private estimation, he thought it might be illegal.


***

How is everyone? Do you have your shopping done?

I'm getting posts done now so I can go out in an hour and pick up some stuff for Thanksgiving.

Posted by: Ace at 12:10 PM




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1 That won't stop them

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 25, 2025 12:11 PM (N1DT3)

2 Oh, 2

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 25, 2025 12:11 PM (N1DT3)

3 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 12:11 PM (ntNFn)

4 So he's admitting he's urging troops to defy the Commander in Chief based on their own guess as to what is or is not an illegal order, and even threatening that a future Democrat president may imprison them for not defying Trump -- and this is all based on nothing except the always-present hypothetical possibility that an illegal order could, maybe, possibly be issued in the future.

Posted by: Ace at 12:10 PM

Precisely.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 25, 2025 12:12 PM (N1DT3)

5 Find out who wrote the script for these assholes.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2025 12:12 PM (NwnyJ)

6 Ooh! Ooh! Ooh!
Oh darn I read the content.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 12:13 PM (uWKK8)

7 Not only is Thanksgiving shopping done but also Christmas shopping. All presents purchased. Now waiting for delivery so I can wrap them.

Posted by: Tuna at November 25, 2025 12:13 PM (lJ0H4)

8 A co-worker ( Trump fan too) told me that they might go after the drone strikes on the drug boats as some kind of international border issues

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 12:13 PM (ntNFn)

9 You don't think Democrats are full of shit, do you?

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 12:13 PM (E0p3T)

10 "Enforcing immigration law is kind of illegal because we promised people that we'd never deport them."
-come on, just admit it

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 12:14 PM (GBKbO)

11 That fact that Elissa's name can easily be rendered as 'Slutkin' should have rendered her political career dead from the start. But she's from Detroit and is CIA, so the slut kin still be in Congress, unfortunately.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 25, 2025 12:14 PM (Dg7ng)

12 Leftists are definitely going to fill the dungeons again when they come back into power. Ten times as much. There is no downside for them. Over half the R pols will cheer them along just like last time.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 12:14 PM (3uBP9)

13 How is everyone?

Not sleeping well.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 25, 2025 12:14 PM (eW8BK)

14 Dang. Read the content and found an empty comment section. Wonder what that cost me??

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2025 12:14 PM (Ltmlv)

15 So me and Brit Lass have covid for the second time. Although really it's the third since we suspect we had it in November of 2019. This one has been a GI adventure for me. Awful.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 12:15 PM (E0p3T)

16 How is everyone? Do you have your shopping done?

=======

Everyone can get me subscriptions to the YouTube Channel.

And likes on all the videos.

https://www.youtube.com/
@ANOTHERMovieChannel-q9l

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 12:15 PM (GBKbO)

17 'I'm getting posts done now so I can go out in an hour and pick up some stuff for Thanksgiving.'

'some stuff' = 'hookers and blow'

Posted by: Candidus at November 25, 2025 12:15 PM (Q5jJ5)

18 "and even threatening that a future Democrat president may imprison them for not defying Trump"

This is the interesting bit to me. Trump/Hegseth are busily purging the military of the wokies (for short.) I think this is the dems, in part, trying to set up justification down the road for a purge of their own (they can't use physical fitness standards or straight out say they only want antifa.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 25, 2025 12:15 PM (bss/y)

19 If you read their mindless orc followers on X, the orders the Left hates most are all about the Drug Boats. As was said yesterday, it shows who's on the Cartel's payroll, or maybe even all the way in bed with them.

Don't be misled, that's what this is all about. This is Maduro and the Cartels doing whatever they can to take the heat off.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 12:15 PM (uWKK8)

20 12 Sure there's a downside. At some point they incite a Spanish Civil War situation. I actually welcome it. It beats listening to right-wingers whining online.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 25, 2025 12:15 PM (Dg7ng)

21 18 This is the interesting bit to me. Trump/Hegseth are busily purging the military of the wokies (for short.) I think this is the dems, in part, trying to set up justification down the road for a purge of their own (they can't use physical fitness standards or straight out say they only want antifa.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 25, 2025 12:15 PM (bss/y)

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So, they can do what Obama did?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 12:16 PM (GBKbO)

22 Yes, they are undermining the military, whether they are too stupid to know that or not (iffy). Treasonous behaviour under any administration, but not Trump's admin. Norms destroyed, again, destroyed by the people who say Trump is destroying norms.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 25, 2025 12:16 PM (Dv3i1)

23 I really wish the Trump admin wouldn't threaten Dems with prosecution. I wish they would just do it. Don't give them warning. Don't give them the opportunity to make you look feckless and weak when you don't prosecute anyone.

Posted by: Iblis at November 25, 2025 12:16 PM (9221z)

24 14 Dang. Read the content and found an empty comment section. Wonder what that cost me??
Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2025 12:14 PM (Ltmlv)
_________
You would have gotten a deep tongue kiss from Elissa Slutkin or Mark Kelly.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2025 12:16 PM (s0JqF)

25 19 If you read their mindless orc followers on X, the orders the Left hates most are all about the Drug Boats. As was said yesterday, it shows who's on the Cartel's payroll, or maybe even all the way in bed with them.

Don't be misled, that's what this is all about. This is Maduro and the Cartels doing whatever they can to take the heat off.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 12:15 PM (uWKK

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Maduro looks pathetic right now. It is hilarious.

Rapping to a spoken word version of his own speech? What da fuk, dude.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 12:16 PM (GBKbO)

26 I bet there’s a group that was involved in some recent military activity and they are queued up for a public display of disobedience. The next act in this play.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 12:16 PM (3uBP9)

27 'some stuff' = 'hookers and blow'
Posted by: Candidus at November 25, 2025 12:15 PM (Q5jJ5)

Well, you do not want to run out of either halfway through Thanksgiving meal.

I mean, the dealers really have you over a barrel then so best to stock up now.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 25, 2025 12:16 PM (bss/y)

28 A co-worker ( Trump fan too) told me that they might go after the drone strikes on the drug boats as some kind of international border issues
Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 12:13 PM (ntNFn)

I believe that all the drug boats have been struck in international waters. Otherwise it would have been an act of war.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 12:16 PM (ExV1e)

29 Trump didn’t do anything wrong. But he is still 100 X worse than Hitler.
- Democrats

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 12:17 PM (HW6XE)

30 28 A co-worker ( Trump fan too) told me that they might go after the drone strikes on the drug boats as some kind of international border issues
Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 12:13 PM (ntNFn)

I believe that all the drug boats have been struck in international waters. Otherwise it would have been an act of war.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 12:16 PM (ExV1e)

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I'd bet real money that the intel on every single boat is airtight and foolproof. Surveillance showing what's going on them, where they're coming from, and probably even identities of who is on them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 12:18 PM (GBKbO)

31 Off topic, anyone know Andrew Wilson? He's all over my you tube feed all of a sudden. He comes off as an ass, but he does leave a path of destruction debating idiot left wingers, tying them in knots using logic.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 25, 2025 12:18 PM (Dv3i1)

32 "If the president hasn't issued illegal orders, then members of Congress telling the military to defy the president is by definition illegal."

JD Vance gets it. I have said basically the same thing here since these turds made the video. And surprisingly (or maybe not), I've gotten push-back.

If anyone does not want this dickfaced homonculus prosecuted because of some technical wordsmithing when it was crystal clear exactly what they really meant and wanted, then maybe modern politics isn't for you. This ain't the 1990s. This is war.

I'm sick of playing by Marquess of Queensberry Rules while the Democrap cocksuckers like Kelly kick us in the nuts. Fuck him. Prosecute. Now.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 12:18 PM (iFTx/)

33 Soldiers are not supposed to worry about the legality of questionable orders. They are to follow them.

Soldiers are supposed to refuse to obey obviously illegal orders.


The whole point of the democrats is to attack individual soldiers over minutiae of the law.

Because NO ONE knows how to do political retribution like the left. (See: January 6th defendants and blatant violation due process. Also see: Derek Chauvin and suppressing evidence and suborning perjury. Also see: George Zimmerman and suborning perjury. Also see: Murdering Charlie Kirk. Also see....)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 25, 2025 12:18 PM (N1DT3)

34 31 Off topic, anyone know Andrew Wilson? He's all over my you tube feed all of a sudden. He comes off as an ass, but he does leave a path of destruction debating idiot left wingers, tying them in knots using logic.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 25, 2025 12:18 PM (Dv3i1)

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There is only one YouTube channel that matters now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 12:18 PM (GBKbO)

35 I think the Democrats' "Operation: Seven Days in May", is going to work out even worse than the original movie version.

Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2025 12:18 PM (mADJX)

36 I think I've got all my Thanksgiving shopping done. But for both Thanksgiving and Christmas, it rarely fails that I hear "Honey, I forgot to add kumquats to the list."

Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2025 12:19 PM (s0JqF)

37 Ellipsis, both dog and human corona virus started as intestinal bugs. Some research that pepcid can interfere with gut replication of covid so it might be worth a shot. Only pepcid aka famotidine worked in studies, not other acid blockers.

Posted by: whig's phone at November 25, 2025 12:19 PM (WDjG6)

38 35 I think the Democrats' "Operation: Seven Days in May", is going to work out even worse than the original movie version.

Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2025 12:18 PM (mADJX)

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I love that movie, but it makes no damn sense.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 12:19 PM (GBKbO)

39 So, they can do what Obama did?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 12:16 PM (GBKbO)

Yes. Just more so.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 25, 2025 12:19 PM (bss/y)

40 32
The Blade is sharp today. His words bite with the force of truth.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 25, 2025 12:19 PM (Dg7ng)

41 Trump didn’t do anything wrong. But he is still 100 X worse than Hitler.
- Democrats
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 12:17 PM (HW6XE)

A lot of them don't think Hitler did anything wrong.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 12:20 PM (E0p3T)

42 I bet there’s a group that was involved in some recent military activity and they are queued up for a public display of disobedience. The next act in this play.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 12:16 PM (3uBP9)

Unlike the members of Congress, unless they've already been discharged they'll find their asses in slings PDQ.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 12:20 PM (ExV1e)

43 40 32
The Blade is sharp today. His words bite with the force of truth.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 25, 2025 12:19 PM (Dg7ng)

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Yeah, but has he liked and subscribed yet?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 12:20 PM (GBKbO)

44 The media isn't reporting on the flow of drugs from South America... whether it is more or less than before the "hits" started.

I do not wonder why they are not reporting on this.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2025 12:20 PM (NwnyJ)

45 This is the type of a bungling scheme that Dollar Tree Lex Luthor is well suited for handling.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at November 25, 2025 12:20 PM (5yDGQ)

46 I'm getting posts done now so I can go out in an hour and pick up some stuff for Thanksgiving.

Posted by: Ace at 12:10 PM

Kaboom?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 25, 2025 12:21 PM (0CU3H)

47 "The process is the punishment "

Read that somewhere once...

Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 12:21 PM (XuXeR)

48 Leftists are definitely going to fill the dungeons again when they come back into power. Ten times as much.

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This should be a serious worry to any sentient, normal American. There will be only complicit hard left judges to facilitate what they'll do.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 25, 2025 12:21 PM (qBdHI)

49 Houlahan told MSNBC on Saturday that the point of the video was to tell U.S. service members that "we've got your back."


Well then, if the service members decide to drive a tank over these 6 fuckfaces, we have *their* back.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 25, 2025 12:21 PM (snZF9)

50 Just seems to me they're trying to get him to do a fascism. They keep saying he's a fascist but he won't act like one so they need to make him be one. Doesn't matter that holding them accountable isn't fascism - it will be to them. They need this.

Posted by: jhawk90 at November 25, 2025 12:21 PM (ggOdn)

51 There is only one YouTube channel that matters now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison...

The simulated fireplace?

Posted by: Candidus at November 25, 2025 12:21 PM (Q5jJ5)

52 31. Chuck,
Andrew Wilson is pungent but given the obnoxious and wicked types he debates, a lot are only fans types, he applies logic to patently evil and illogic that these types spew

Posted by: whig's phone at November 25, 2025 12:21 PM (WDjG6)

53 Ellipsis, both dog and human corona virus started as intestinal bugs. Some research that pepcid can interfere with gut replication of covid so it might be worth a shot. Only pepcid aka famotidine worked in studies, not other acid blockers.
Posted by: whig's phone at November 25, 2025 12:19 PM (WDjG6)

Interesting. I'll see how this goes on but it was the vomiting that was the worst part. Seem to be over the hump now, but Brit Lass is behind me and approaching the worst.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 12:22 PM (E0p3T)

54 Off topic, anyone know Andrew Wilson? He's all over my you tube feed all of a sudden. He comes off as an ass, but he does leave a path of destruction debating idiot left wingers, tying them in knots using logic.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 25, 2025 12:18 PM (Dv3i1)

I've never found him to be an ass, nor his wife, they're people who don't suffer fools gladly and have waded into the culture war on the side of the angels.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 12:22 PM (ExV1e)

55 The entire goal of their charade is to bring the political, into the military. That’s been the sine qua non of Democrats continuous effort to undermine the military. What this Clown Patrol has done is try to impact operations by creating doubt about the legitimacy of orders. On other shows what they’ve done is suggested missions such as the NG deployments to cities and the Venezuela mission are illegal. That idiot from Arizona (you guys must be so proud) has now suggested they will go after anyone involved in those efforts. By the way, all of those efforts have been found legitimate by the DoJ using the same standard as past efforts like Clinton’s intervention in Haiti- so, no not some one-off. The CoC on these operations also includes a JAG. So don’t fall for their bullshit that people are running for clearance so they won’t be prosecuted. They’re doing it because that is the process. Kelly and Crow, especially should know better, that is they know exactly what the are doing.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 25, 2025 12:22 PM (3arSl)

56 As my grandmother used to say: once a dickfaced homunculus, always a dickfaced homunculus.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 25, 2025 12:22 PM (1Nv0l)

57 There is only one YouTube channel that matters now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 12:18 PM (GBKbO)

One channel to rule them all?

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 25, 2025 12:22 PM (N1DT3)

58 There is only one YouTube channel that matters now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 12:18 PM (GBKbO)

Yeah, Rick Beato is awesome!

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2025 12:22 PM (Ltmlv)

59 58 There is only one YouTube channel that matters now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 12:18 PM (GBKbO)

Yeah, Rick Beato is awesome!
Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2025 12:22 PM (Ltmlv)

and I love the Critical Drinker!

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 25, 2025 12:23 PM (0CU3H)

60 The six Dims made the video for clout. Nothing else. Byron Donalds had this figured out almost immediately. Stop acting like doing anything is some 15D chess that gives them what they want. This is how a movement run by shit flinging retards still controls half of the most powerful country in human history. There is no deeper plan here. Act accordingly and decisively.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 25, 2025 12:24 PM (Dg7ng)

61 You would have gotten a deep tongue kiss from Elissa Slutkin or Mark Kelly.
Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2025 12:16 PM (s0JqF)

Throw-up in mouth status - achieved.

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2025 12:24 PM (Ltmlv)

62 Trump didn’t do anything wrong. But he is still 100 X worse than Hitler.
- Democrats
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 12:17 PM (HW6XE)

A lot of them don't think Hitler did anything wrong.
Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 12:20 PM (E0p3T)

Thanks to DOUBLETHINK(TM) they can hold both thoughts in their head at the same time.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 25, 2025 12:24 PM (N1DT3)

63 Afternoon Ace.
This is akin to the belief that the "left can't meme". Apparently they suck at hit videos as well

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 12:24 PM (bfwj/)

64 I wonder how well the armed forces would function under an anarcho-syndicalist collective. Not very well at all, I imagine.

Posted by: Paco at November 25, 2025 12:24 PM (mADJX)

65 So is this more fodder for dueling X posts until the issue it's flogged into oblivion or are we actually going to do something?

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 25, 2025 12:25 PM (VnsnO)

66 From that rear quarter angle, Slotkin's cheek looks like my nicely-proofed sourdough 800g doughball right before loaf-shaping.

Did the organizers of the Sedition-Six know there would be pointed questions aimed at them in these face to face "interviews?" Did they prep all six with the kind of deflections we are witnessing?

I think they did, and knew that the controversy would stretch it in the news cycle, to keep it visible to their base, and to that huge mass of AWFLs out there. It's a GOTV move. Everything they do for the next 11 months will be one form of Trump resistance or another.

Just like those special elections recently were a referendum on Trump, so will the mid-terms.

Posted by: M. Gaga at November 25, 2025 12:25 PM (zeLd4)

67 Gawd is Slotkin stupid. I don't spend any time paying real attention to these cretins, not needed to know they're cretins, but that response to the idiot "reporter". Junior high school valley girl.

And the whole (actual) illegal order thing is obviously one of those band-aids a decent civil society has to put on insoluble problems. Obviously, illegal orders should not be followed. Obviously, it is difficult to imagine a situation where serving military have the means or ability to identify actually illegal orders. So the whole thing is a sort of gesture.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 25, 2025 12:25 PM (U/Byj)

68 When I say Andrew Wilson comes off as an ass, it is exactly how I think I'm percieved when I challenge a lefty's opinion. My wife thinks so anyway.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 25, 2025 12:25 PM (Dv3i1)

69 Speaking of Trump's orders . . .

Trump pushes Paramount studios to reboot the Rush Hour franchise: report

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 12:25 PM (L/fGl)

70 one is CIA and four are former military but not 'retired', so they are no longer subject to UCMJ" but that "Mark Kelly (retired Navy Commander) is still subject to UCMJ
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This doesn't make sense to me. Can someone explain?

Posted by: olddog in mo at November 25, 2025 12:26 PM (zGabF)

71 64 I wonder how well the armed forces would function under an anarcho-syndicalist collective. Not very well at all, I imagine.
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This was tried in the Spanish Civil War. The results were so bad that left-leaning middle-class Spaniards joined the "Communists" in order to get some discipline in the fight against Franco.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 25, 2025 12:26 PM (Dg7ng)

72 > The entire goal of their charade is to bring the political, into the military.
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Obama already did that. The residue is still there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2025 12:26 PM (NwnyJ)

73 69 Speaking of Trump's orders . . .

Trump pushes Paramount studios to reboot the Rush Hour franchise: report

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 12:25 PM (L/fGl)

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Chris Tucker has one of the best agents ever. He hasn't made anything in years, and he knows that if Paramount ever decides to make Rush Hour 4, they'll pay anything to have him in it.

They'll pay him $50 million.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 12:27 PM (GBKbO)

74 Obviously, it is difficult to imagine a situation where serving military have the means or ability to identify actually illegal orders. So the whole thing is a sort of gesture.
Posted by: rhomboid

I think being ordered to kill a civilian non-combatant would be pretty clearly illegal.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 12:27 PM (77rzZ)

75 I'm sick of playing by Marquess of Queensberry Rules while the Democrap cocksuckers like Kelly kick us in the nuts. Fuck him. Prosecute. Now.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 12:18 PM (iFTx/)

Trump has won basically every legal showdown since the inauguration and you're itching to give him a loss?

They didn't tell the troops to defy the President. They didn't. We all know what they meant but it isn't what they said and the courts would throw it out in a nanosecond. The courts would throw it out and the higher courts would agree.

Does that suck? Yes. Sometimes life sucks.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 12:27 PM (ExV1e)

76 28 A co-worker ( Trump fan too) told me that they might go after the drone strikes on the drug boats as some kind of international border issues
Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 12:13 PM (ntNFn)

I believe that all the drug boats have been struck in international waters. Otherwise it would have been an act of war.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 12:16 PM (ExV1e)

exactly. As long as they're more than 12 miles from the coast, it's international waters. Which in fact is something they use to their advantage when offloading; the drug boats rendezvous with some local fishing boat outside the 12 mile limit to take a part of the cargo, and the fishing boat looks like a hundred other local fishing boats when it gets home. Up until now they were home free.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 12:27 PM (uWKK8)

77 Mark Kelly: We wanted to explain to members of the military that we have their backs.

Ruben Gallego, a few hours earlier: Threatens members of the military with retaliation over investigation into Kelly.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 12:27 PM (L/fGl)

78 Shopping is done except for Rosemary.
Got most basics at Aldi, pies at Sam's Club, turkey at local supermarket chain.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 25, 2025 12:27 PM (6NInb)

79 Aren't all Trump's orders illegal because "orange man bad"?

Posted by: Darth Randall at November 25, 2025 12:27 PM (YtGvr)

80 I saw the movie Sinners last night. Wtf? The critics obviously reviewed this on a heavily-biased DEI scale.

While I did think some individual scenes were very good, the movie was an over-long, jumbled mess that made no sense. Even after piles of expository dialog, I still wasn't sure who was doing what and why. Almost nothing happened in the first hour and a half, and the last hour had nothing to do with the first.

And for $100M, you'd think they'd have hired a real cinematographer? Somebody thought it was a great idea to shoot a dark-skinned black cast in very low light, without ensuring any "key light" illuminated their faces.

The movie is also a rip-off of From Dusk Till Dawn.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 12:28 PM (iFTx/)

81 In their TDS afflicted minds anything Trump does is bad. He could cure cancer and they’d find a way to criticize his cure…. If he walked on water they’d accuse him of not being able to swim…. I kinda wish Trump would’ve ignored their jackassery….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 25, 2025 12:28 PM (/iXAp)

82 So, are we the AOS Falange?

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2025 12:28 PM (Wg6v7)

83 Cadaverous wallflower, never change ace.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 25, 2025 12:28 PM (Cg3Gl)

84 I actually am surprised...that the question was even asked.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 25, 2025 12:28 PM (xcxpd)

85 KELLY: "Here's the thing, Rachel. You don't want to wait for your kid to get hit by a car before you tell them to look both ways."

When you're a Dem, having it "both ways" begins at home!

Posted by: t-bird at November 25, 2025 12:28 PM (XFXIk)

86 31 Off topic, anyone know Andrew Wilson?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 25, 2025 12:18 PM (Dv3i1)

I've been watching his stuff for about a year. He's brutally incisive, clear on his facts and history, and fearless.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 25, 2025 12:28 PM (VnsnO)

87 Shopping is done except for Rosemary.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

How were the prices on the parsley, sage, and thyme?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 12:29 PM (77rzZ)

88 This doesn't make sense to me. Can someone explain?
Posted by: olddog in mo at November 25, 2025 12:26 PM (zGabF)

Once a soldier, always a soldier.

UCMJ is a separate and parallel system of law with different rules.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 12:29 PM (uWKK8)

89 59 59 58 There is only one YouTube channel that matters now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 12:18 PM (GBKbO)

Yeah, Rick Beato is awesome!
Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2025 12:22 PM (Ltmlv)

and I love the Critical Drinker!
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 25, 2025 12:23 PM

Unsubscribe and The Fat Electrician!!! Oh, and HeelvsBabyFace

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at November 25, 2025 12:29 PM (qoLdL)

90 >>Ruben Gallego, a few hours earlier: Threatens members of the military with retaliation over investigation into Kelly.

When he was interviewed last night, Gallego was asked if he considered participating. He said something to the effect that he didn't get the script in time.

Totally spur of the moment video with a script.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2025 12:29 PM (viF8m)

91 I think being ordered to kill a civilian non-combatant would be pretty clearly illegal.
Posted by: Bulg

Uh, depends on the president uh, who is giving the uh, orders.

Posted by: Barak Obama at November 25, 2025 12:29 PM (Dv3i1)

92 80
The movie is also a rip-off of From Dusk Till Dawn.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 12:28 PM (iFTx/)

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I also disliked this film.

I recall when I had hope for Ryan Coogler, circa Creed, which is kind of great.

It's been nothing but shit since. You could attribute some of that to Marvel-itis, but Sinners was his blank check movie. And it's...trash.

And yet you have people like Francis Ford Coppola calling it a masterpiece. I do not know what these people are smoking. Sinners is...not good. At all.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 12:29 PM (GBKbO)

93 Only notable thing here is that some "journalists" actually asked the key obvious question. 95% of the nonsense desperately and deeply believed by civic retards that make up a huge portion of the current US can't sustain even a single obvious substantive question. Which is why such questions are rarely heard in the public square.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 25, 2025 12:29 PM (U/Byj)

94 Trump and Republicans need to pivot to the economy. These palace intrigues just look like elites playing power games.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 25, 2025 12:29 PM (6NInb)

95 somebody say it

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 12:29 PM (AOsQT)

96 Kelly will be investigated. They might even recall him just to make a point. But they generally don’t CM anyone for things that didn’t happen during active service. That said , somebody should staple a penis to his giant dome.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 25, 2025 12:30 PM (3arSl)

97 87 Shopping is done except for Rosemary.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

How were the prices on the parsley, sage, and thyme?
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 12:29 PM (77rzZ)

I still have all those in my garden

Posted by: It's me donna at November 25, 2025 12:30 PM (VE6XX)

98 61 Throw-up in mouth status - achieved.
Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2025 12:24 P

Could have been worse, it could have been Jerry Nadler....

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at November 25, 2025 12:30 PM (qoLdL)

99 Chris Tucker has one of the best agents ever. He hasn't made anything in years, and he knows that if Paramount ever decides to make Rush Hour 4, they'll pay anything to have him in it.

They'll pay him $50 million.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 12:27 PM (GBKbO
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That's so green

Posted by: Ruby Rhod at November 25, 2025 12:30 PM (YtGvr)

100 Sounds like Hegseth needs to go get the "chains of command", which is the chain he beats these jagoffs with until they acknowledge who is in command of the troops.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 25, 2025 12:30 PM (IBQGV)

101 I'm sick of playing by Marquess of Queensberry Rules while the Democrap cocksuckers like Kelly kick us in the nuts. Fuck him. Prosecute. Now.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 12:18 PM (iFTx/)

Trump has won basically every legal showdown since the inauguration and you're itching to give him a loss?

They didn't tell the troops to defy the President. They didn't. We all know what they meant but it isn't what they said and the courts would throw it out in a nanosecond. The courts would throw it out and the higher courts would agree.

Does that suck? Yes. Sometimes life sucks.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 12:27 PM (ExV1e)
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They did indeed tell the troops to defy the president. That was the whole point of the video. The entire fucking point. If you don't see that, then I don't know what else to tell ya.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 12:30 PM (iFTx/)

102
Ruben Gallego, a few hours earlier: Threatens members of the military with retaliation over investigation into Kelly.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 12:27 PM (L/fGl)

Ruben Gallego is almost certainly working directly for the Cartels. He says what the Cartels order him to say.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 12:30 PM (uWKK8)

103 all Trump's orders illegal because "orange man bad"?"

By george, I think he's got it!

Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 12:30 PM (XuXeR)

104 one is CIA and four are former military but not 'retired', so they are no longer subject to UCMJ" but that "Mark Kelly (retired Navy Commander) is still subject to UCMJ
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This doesn't make sense to me. Can someone explain?
Posted by: olddog

Being retired means he's drawing a pension. So, the government still owns him.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 12:31 PM (77rzZ)

105 The six retards might just end up quoting Alan Greenspan:

I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 25, 2025 12:31 PM (/iXAp)

106 Yeah, Rick Beato is awesome!
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I actually do like his material. Its clear he loves music, and that makes the interviews more interesting. He seems to bring out the best in his guests.

Or maybe his filter is extra good, and he knows not to bring stupid people on.

Posted by: Crusader at November 25, 2025 12:31 PM (TN0g+)

107 Bestest part of all this? Dems were kicking long serving Military members out for not following an order, for not getting the Gene Therapy Covid Shot...

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 12:31 PM (mP0Kj)

108 A co-worker ( Trump fan too) told me that they might go after the drone strikes on the drug boats as some kind of international border issues
Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 12:13 PM (ntNFn)

The law on piracy is pretty clear. Pirates and smugglers are subject to summary execution in international waters, as I understand it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 12:31 PM (npFr7)

109 I actually am surprised...that the question was even asked.

A lot of the media and Congress may have realized, uh-oh, if sedition is now a crime, they could come for all of us...

Posted by: t-bird at November 25, 2025 12:31 PM (XFXIk)

110 A drug-resistant 'super fungus' that targets the groin and bum is spreading rapidly across Britain. Cases of trichophyton indotineae - which triggers unsightly, stubborn skin lesions all over the body - are now rocketing in the UK, despite being virtually unknown just a few years ago.

Cases have surged by 500% in the past three years, with one fungus expert describing it as "a really big problem".

... I'm sure somebody will blame RFKjr

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 12:31 PM (RHGPo)

111 KELLY: "Here's the thing, Rachel. You don't want to wait for your kid to get hit by a car before you tell them to look both ways."
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Or just do the Democrat solution and get them with a coat hanger first.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 12:32 PM (E0p3T)

112 There is only one YouTube channel that matters now.
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Red Letter Media

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAÀIDS!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 25, 2025 12:32 PM (6NInb)

113 The seditious six's video was scripted so they'd avoid being criminally charged with anything. It's a "pot stirring" video. Meant to agitate. Maybe get some lowly Soldier who's fed up with his/her lot in life to "take one for the team."

Keep an eye on Driscoll, the Secretary of the Army. It's purported that he's been cozying up to the Vindman twins, which can't be good in any context.

Trump's being accosted from every conceivable angle. I see no reason not to suspect insiders too.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2025 12:32 PM (NwnyJ)

114 "released a video that argued that "you must refuse illegal orders" and professed to servicemembers that "we have your back."

"But if you refuse a legal order and are court martialed or prosecuted, then, We Do NOT have your back". The "Rachel Maddow said it was illegal" defense will not help.

Posted by: illiniwek at November 25, 2025 12:32 PM (vbXSk)

115 Kelly saying you don't wait for your kid to be hit is ironic.He waited for his wife to get shot in the head before he began his political career

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 12:32 PM (bfwj/)

116 51 There is only one YouTube channel that matters now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison...

The simulated fireplace?
Posted by: Candidus at November 25, 2025 12:21 PM (Q5jJ5)

Well, you never know when you might need to know how to run a breast milk pump.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 25, 2025 12:32 PM (bss/y)

117

So is it weird that there's a movie about Nuremberg at the same time these idiots came out and launched this?

Just a coincidence of course.

Did you know Slotkin is the heiress to the Ball Park frank fortune?

How bout that.


Posted by: Rev DR E Buzz at November 25, 2025 12:32 PM (och2J)

118 A drug-resistant 'super fungus' that targets the groin and bum is spreading rapidly across Britain.
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Gee I wonder how it gets spread.

{Jeopardy theme plays}

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 12:32 PM (E0p3T)

119 Good Lord! Martha looks like she could use a couple of IVs to re-hydrate.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at November 25, 2025 12:32 PM (WFC1M)

120 Military orders mean nothing.

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Run up that hill in the face of machine gun fire and take out that bunker! Pretty please? With a cherry on top?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 12:33 PM (L/fGl)

121 >>Trump and Republicans need to pivot to the economy. These palace intrigues just look like elites playing power games.

Yet when I posted this morning that inflation came in below the "experts" prediction I was told people don't care about that. Gas is lower than it's been in years. Grocery prices are down. And if the reports that Ukraine has accepted the peace plan gas will come down further and so will other comodities.

There are things happening with the economy constantly but if people keep ignoring them what's the point?

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2025 12:33 PM (viF8m)

122 Elderly aristocrat begins hunt for gun-toting younger wife who he will pay £50k a year
Sir Benjamin Slade, 79, wants a new wife that's at least 20 years younger than him – but he is quite picky and has an extensive list of requirements to meet in order to bag the £50k

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 12:33 PM (RHGPo)

123 They did indeed tell the troops to defy the president. That was the whole point of the video. The entire fucking point. If you don't see that, then I don't know what else to tell ya.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 12:30 PM (iFTx/)

I as a civilian can tell the troops to defy the President, and I have committed no crime for which I can be arrested. I would not do it under Trump, but I might have done it under Obama or Biden, especially if I thought they were threatening American Citizens.

If I was a member of the military under the jurisdiction of the UCMJ, this would be different. Civilians are not subject to that standard.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 12:33 PM (uWKK8)

124 Off topic, anyone know Andrew Wilson? He's all over my you tube feed all of a sudden. He comes off as an ass, but he does leave a path of destruction debating idiot left wingers, tying them in knots using logic.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 25, 2025 12:18 PM (Dv3i1)

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There is only one YouTube channel that matters now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 12:18 PM (GBKbO)
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ForHentaiFansOnly?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 12:33 PM (iFTx/)

125 The media and all of the lefty talk shows tell the world that practically everything Trump does is illegal. Rogue judges stop nearly all of Trumps orders implying to the people that Trump is breaking the law. Even though the judges have been overturned at about 100%, people get the impressing that Trump acted illegaly.

Mark Kelly and his mates, then tell the military to defy illegal orders from Trump which are now conflated into everything Trump does.

THATS FUCKING TEAMWORK

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at November 25, 2025 12:33 PM (iNURe)

126 And all we need for Thanksgiving is some Pumpkin Pie. Stopping by Costco tonight after work.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 25, 2025 12:33 PM (xcxpd)

127 "...all Trump's orders illegal because "orange man bad"?"

Trump himself is illegal. He's existentially unviable. He shouldn't exist. He needs to unexist.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 25, 2025 12:34 PM (VnsnO)

128 "Sinners" was 'good' to the extent that Normies watched and even recommended it to other Normies (like me - I never will watch it though).

Most slop nowadays has a narrative attached to it. The mega-slop has "first Marvel movie to have a transgendered BIPOC cripple hero", though that never catches on with Normies. The generic slop (e.g. "Predator: Badlands") has "best movie in the franchise EVER!", and Normies buy that for a week or two. The surreptitious slop has the buzz of "Sinners", where people still talk about it months later. Give it a year or two and no one will remember it exists.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 25, 2025 12:34 PM (Dg7ng)

129 @110 a fungus outbreak amongst immigrants is one way to deal with them

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 12:34 PM (bfwj/)

130 They'll pay him $50 million.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 12:27 PM (GBKbO)


Fifty Million Dollars?!?! Who do you think this is, Chelsea Clinton?!?!

Posted by: Detective James Carter at November 25, 2025 12:34 PM (OhTH/)

131
There is only one YouTube channel that matters now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Yeah, Rick Beato is awesome!
Posted by: Doof
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and I love the Critical Drinker!
Posted by: Darrell Harris

Diesel Creek. While i wait for our version of the spanish civil war.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 25, 2025 12:34 PM (QVmho)

132

They are all scum.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 25, 2025 12:34 PM (3ek7K)

133 96 Kelly will be investigated. They might even recall him just to make a point. But they generally don’t CM anyone for things that didn’t happen during active service. That said , somebody should staple a penis to his giant dome.
Posted by: Marcus T at November 25, 2025 12:30 PM (3arSl)

Kelly is in the clear... speech and debate clause, part of the Constitution, trumps any Law about the military.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 12:34 PM (mP0Kj)

134 >>> Democrats Admit They Can't Name Any Illegal Orders Trump Has Issued

What about that time he deported a bunch of aliens on a military transport and a judge (Boesberg?) issued a tweet demanding the plane turn around and bring them back?

Sure, Trump did not personally order the flight, but close enough...

And all the Guard / Reserve cases that Crazy Disyrict Judge says is illegal...

Posted by: Operator Error at November 25, 2025 12:34 PM (rGPrJ)

135 I actually am surprised...that the question was even asked.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 25, 2025 12:28 PM (xcxpd)

Prepping their defense. See... we said publicly that Trump had never issued an illegal order so we, obviously, weren't telling the military to disobey anything Trump has ordered.

This has all been gamed out.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 12:35 PM (ExV1e)

136 They did indeed tell the troops to defy the president. That was the whole point of the video. The entire fucking point. If you don't see that, then I don't know what else to tell ya.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 12:30 PM (iFTx/)

I as a civilian can tell the troops to defy the President, and I have committed no crime for which I can be arrested. I would not do it under Trump, but I might have done it under Obama or Biden, especially if I thought they were threatening American Citizens.

If I was a member of the military under the jurisdiction of the UCMJ, this would be different. Civilians are not subject to that standard.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 12:33 PM (uWKK
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Kelly is under the UCMJ. I've made that point several times. Like 5x.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 12:35 PM (iFTx/)

137 AWFL Aftyn as you've never seen her before!

https://is.gd/LHQgpO
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 12:17 PM (L/fGl)

OK, I laughed at this, except for the cops who are having to endure being props in this.

I'm sure Miss Aftyn only published the footage prior to ~45sec and after a few seconds later on her social media, because that's where the setup becomes obvious. As the cops turn back to the office after taking her into the hallway, the guy she had on scene shooting video dismounts his camera to follow her, showing the mount on his tripod, and then also the still photographer she had on scene to capture her poignant moment of agony at the hands of Trump's fascist, manocratic police state.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 12:35 PM (BI5O2)

138 Shopping? what shopping?

don't people have shelves full of home-canned food, or freezers?

we're celebrating old-school.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 25, 2025 12:35 PM (Cjt/F)

139 130 They'll pay him $50 million.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 12:27 PM (GBKbO)


Fifty Million Dollars?!?! Who do you think this is, Chelsea Clinton?!?!

Posted by: Detective James Carter at November 25, 2025 12:34 PM (OhTH/)
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I believe it's what Marvel paid Robert Downey Jr. to be Dr. Doom in the new Avengers movie.

Lord, please let that movie flop. Let it flop hard.

Zootopia 2 is gonna make Disney bank, but please let Avengers 4 (or whatever) flop. It would entertain me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 12:35 PM (GBKbO)

140 > Do you have your shopping done?

’Twas the night 'fore Thanksgiving, and all through the house,
Not a creature was stirring, save only my spouse,
Who was rummaging loudly with purpose and flair,
In search of the roasting pan she swears was right there.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 25, 2025 12:35 PM (1Nv0l)

141 Martha Radditz interviewing Elissa Slotkin… that is one high level “ugly-off”

Radditz is on the hideous level of Maxine Waters… Slotkin is merely a younger version

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 25, 2025 12:35 PM (/iXAp)

142 The trajectory of 3I/ATLAS suggests it will deploy satellites to spy on Jupiter for an advanced alien "civilisation", a Harvard boffin has suggested. Theoretical physicist Avi Loeb has been leading speculation that the so-called comet is actually a "spaceship".

The suggestion that humanity is not alone in the universe caused such a stir that NASA held a press conference to address the rumours. The US space agency boffins shut down the speculation calling 3I/ATLAS a "comet".

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 12:35 PM (RHGPo)

143 >> KELLY: "Here's the thing, Rachel. You don't get giant spock ears, a shiny dome that people can from space, and eyes that would make a tarsier jealous unless you’ve visited a lot of penis. And I’ve visited quite a few.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 25, 2025 12:35 PM (3arSl)

144 >>> A drug-resistant 'super fungus' that targets the groin and bum is spreading rapidly across Britain. Cases of trichophyton indotineae - which triggers unsightly, stubborn skin lesions all over the body - are now rocketing in the UK, despite being virtually unknown just a few years ago.

Cases have surged by 500% in the past three years, with one fungus expert describing it as "a really big problem".

... I'm sure somebody will blame RFKjr
Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 12:31 PM (RHGPo)


asshrooms

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 12:35 PM (3uBP9)

145 A co-worker ( Trump fan too) told me that they might go after the drone strikes on the drug boats as some kind of international border issues
Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 12:13 PM (ntNFn)

I believe that all the drug boats have been struck in international waters. Otherwise it would have been an act of war.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic


I'm torn between hitting them in international waters and in US waters.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2025 12:36 PM (PDBoZ)

146 LOL Trump is the Comedian in Chief

https://instapundit.com/758657/

Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2025 12:36 PM (YwEeS)

147 Heh, Oak Island Night.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2025 12:36 PM (Wg6v7)

148 So is it weird that there's a movie about Nuremberg at the same time these idiots came out and launched this?
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Not weird. The entire purpose of the movie is anti-Trump propaganda. It aligns with everything else, so synchronicity is unavoidable.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 25, 2025 12:36 PM (VnsnO)

149 There's a fungus among us!

Posted by: NHS at November 25, 2025 12:36 PM (w9Wax)

150
Slotkin, like so many Senators and representatives, has little connection with the state or district she pretends to represent, having no real home in Michigan, and not having lived here for close to 30 years, but in DC.

She does parachute in from time to time in order to scold others and brag on herself.

Posted by: Auspex at November 25, 2025 12:36 PM (Y8DZL)

151 A drug-resistant 'super fungus' that targets the groin and bum is spreading rapidly across Britain. Cases of trichophyton indotineae - which triggers unsightly, stubborn skin lesions all over the body - are now rocketing in the UK, despite being virtually unknown just a few years ago.

Cases have surged by 500% in the past three years, with one fungus expert describing it as "a really big problem".

... I'm sure somebody will blame RFKjr
Posted by: SMOD


It's from humping goats.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2025 12:37 PM (PDBoZ)

152 I believe Gallego's seat in Congress comes courtesy of the cartels

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 12:37 PM (AOsQT)

153 And if the reports that Ukraine has accepted the peace plan gas will come down further and so will other comodities.

Trump was just on pardoning turkeys , the bird species, at the WH and he ended up in typical Trump style giving a speech about everything going on and he mentioned a possible deal but didn't seem overly optimistic.. He also talked about Chicago crime and called Pritzker a big, fat, slob... I laughed

Posted by: It's me donna at November 25, 2025 12:37 PM (VE6XX)

154 As I said in Diogenes' previous thread on the topic, this mostly empty stupid political posturing controversy is sort of trivial compared to the stunning incitements to violence against federal law enforcement (ICE) that have become common among many elected public officials.

Maybe I'm missing something but cannot recall in my lifetime or recent history prior a situation in which there was a widespread ongoing and active threat to fed law enforcement, with many actual attacks and foiled plots, with elected officials pumping enormous quantities of fuel onto the fire with outrageous incitement. Publicly. Ostentatiously.

Our system is mostly designed to take of such behavior via the ballot box, but that of course is academic with a dumbed-down, disconnected, ignorant electorate (controlling majorities). Black swans like Trump are just that.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 25, 2025 12:37 PM (U/Byj)

155 >> Kelly is in the clear... speech and debate clause, part of the Constitution, trumps any Law about the military.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 12:34 PM (mP0Kj)

From what I’ve read it doesn’t cover this garbage. In fact they were thinking about a prosecution using 18 USC 2388

Posted by: Marcus T at November 25, 2025 12:37 PM (3arSl)

156 Trump needs to go full Lincoln on all of them.

Posted by: Gary at November 25, 2025 12:37 PM (j3Fsw)

157 I'm torn between hitting them in international waters and in US waters.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2025 12:36 PM (PDBoZ)
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Anything goes out in international waters, regardless of the implications.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 25, 2025 12:38 PM (IBQGV)

158
I think Kelly's soft-shoe backsliding "Oh, I don't know of any ACTUAL illegal orders that are actually illegal" is happening so he can claim he never said any such thing. That's exactly the sort of weasel-wording he would do if he were hauled before a court-martial -- as if that would happen in this world.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2025 12:38 PM (RfDQK)

159 I do not know what these people are smoking. Sinners is...not good. At all.
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Trailer outside shoulda told you! There is no realistic way to start with the trailer of many flicks and work backwards into a compelling two hours of story-telling.

Posted by: Crusader at November 25, 2025 12:38 PM (TN0g+)

160 155 >> Kelly is in the clear... speech and debate clause, part of the Constitution, trumps any Law about the military.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 12:34 PM (mP0Kj)

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Did he make the video on the floor of the Senate?

Because that clause only applies to things said on the floor of the Senate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 12:38 PM (GBKbO)

161 The movie is also a rip-off of From Dusk Till Dawn.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 12:28 PM (iFTx/)

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I also disliked this film.

I recall when I had hope for Ryan Coogler, circa Creed, which is kind of great.

It's been nothing but shit since. You could attribute some of that to Marvel-itis, but Sinners was his blank check movie. And it's...trash.

And yet you have people like Francis Ford Coppola calling it a masterpiece. I do not know what these people are smoking. Sinners is...not good. At all.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 12:29 PM (GBKbO)
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He apparently had 100% carte blanche, with everyone rubbing his balls, and nobody had the guts to say "hey, maybe this or that doesn't really work."

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 12:39 PM (iFTx/)

162 I'm torn between hitting them in international waters and in US waters.
Posted by: rickb223
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I'm a "back of the skull" man myself.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 25, 2025 12:39 PM (1Nv0l)

163 >>Trump was just on pardoning turkeys , the bird species, at the WH and he ended up in typical Trump style giving a speech about everything going on and he mentioned a possible deal but didn't seem overly optimistic.. He also talked about Chicago crime and called Pritzker a big, fat, slob... I laughed

Maybe something changed in the last few hours but the original reports this morning were that Ukraine had accepted the major points of the deal and there just a few minor issues to be cleared up.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2025 12:39 PM (viF8m)

164 161 He apparently had 100% carte blanche, with everyone rubbing his balls, and nobody had the guts to say "hey, maybe this or that doesn't really work."

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 12:39 PM (iFTx/)

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The big sequence when the musician's music bends space and time?

Amateurishly filmed and kind of hilariously stupid in execution. That was the moment I went from, "Why isn't this grabbing me" to "Holy shit, Coogler's retarded."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 12:40 PM (GBKbO)

165 They did indeed tell the troops to defy the president. That was the whole point of the video. The entire fucking point. If you don't see that, then I don't know what else to tell ya.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 12:30 PM (iFTx/)

They did not. No matter how upset the video made you, they did not tell the troops to defy the President. You can look up the transcript. I don't even recall the word President being used.

Did they MEAN for someone to defy their orders? Yes. But they didn't SAY it. And, as has been pointed out previously, there's legal precedent saying that what they said was, in fact, protected speech.

Once again, it sucks that a significant fraction of the country is treasonous snakes but this isn't going anywhere. If you don't see that, then I don't know what else to tell ya.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 12:40 PM (ExV1e)

166
Whoa. I just pressed Ctrl-F and typed "nothing will," and there are no hits. Am I in the right blog?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2025 12:40 PM (RfDQK)

167 ....speech and debate clause, part of the Constitution, trumps any Law about the military.
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Its my understanding that the speech and debate clause is quite rigid in that it covers *only* speech and debate delivered within the Congressional hall.

Posted by: Crusader at November 25, 2025 12:40 PM (TN0g+)

168
Under Questioning By, Surprisingly, the Leftwing Media, Democrats Admit They Can't Name Any Illegal Orders Trump Has Issued

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To the severe disappointment of leftwing media.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2025 12:41 PM (RfDQK)

169 Under Questioning By, Surprisingly, the Leftwing Media, Democrats Admit They Can't Name Any Illegal Orders Trump Has Issued

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To the severe disappointment of leftwing media.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2025 12:41 PM (RfDQK)

Exactly

Posted by: It's me donna at November 25, 2025 12:41 PM (VE6XX)

170 I was told people don't care about that"

Funny how "what's super important" changes every 2.7 seconds...

Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 12:42 PM (XuXeR)

171 Trump calling the two big fat turkeys Chuck and Nancy but no I won’t because I wouldn’t give them a pardon…. The guy could’ve been a professional comedian

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 25, 2025 12:42 PM (YobFY)

172 I do not know what these people are smoking. Sinners is...not good. At all.
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Trailer outside shoulda told you! There is no realistic way to start with the trailer of many flicks and work backwards into a compelling two hours of story-telling.
Posted by: Crusader at November 25, 2025 12:38 PM (TN0g+)
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I never saw the trailer and only vaguely knew what the movie was about. The movie stupidly gives away the entire plot in the first 5 minutes. Then for the next 70 minutes or so, I was like "umm, are we ever gonna get to the 'evil finds them' plot that was promised?"

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 12:42 PM (iFTx/)

173
I really wish the Trump admin wouldn't threaten Dems with prosecution. I wish they would just do it. Don't give them warning. Don't give them the opportunity to make you look feckless and weak when you don't prosecute anyone.
Posted by: Iblis

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You will demand prosecution.
You will settle for threats.
You will get nothing.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2025 12:42 PM (RfDQK)

174 Trump is probably the least likely president in modern history to issue an illegal order. The man is a legal eagle.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 25, 2025 12:43 PM (VnsnO)

175 ...are now rocketing in the UK, despite being virtually unknown just a few years ago.

Mm-hmm. Sounds like a Blessing of Importation.

Posted by: t-bird at November 25, 2025 12:43 PM (XFXIk)

176 Did he make the video on the floor of the Senate?

Because that clause only applies to things said on the floor of the Senate.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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He was relying on the often-overlooked "fingers-crossed behind my back" constitutional clause.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 25, 2025 12:43 PM (1Nv0l)

177 I think Ukraine is balking at giving away a third of their country, some of it occupied since the US started suggesting territorial concessions.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 25, 2025 12:43 PM (3arSl)

178 for my 0.02, the Trump of the impromptu press conference is exactly what I voted for!

an actual honest guy, who just is what he is, with no frills or bs.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 25, 2025 12:44 PM (Cjt/F)

179 There are things happening with the economy constantly but if people keep ignoring them what's the point?
Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2025 12:33 PM (viF8m)

There's still a constant drumbeat on tiktok about how we're all going to die because it costs too much and no one can get a job. Probably more orchestrated bullshit.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 12:45 PM (ExV1e)

180 >>> https://is.gd/LHQgpO
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 12:17 PM (L/fGl)


Amazing. I heard the unmistakable shriek of a pterodactyl swooping in. Paleontologists believe that the terrible sound was meant to frighten the pterodactyl's prey, shocking them in place for an easy kill.

But, egad, they've been extinct for a hundred and fifty million years!

[takes pipe out of jacket, fills with bubble juice, blows many bubbles, contemplates quietly, puts pipe back]

Intriguing...

Posted by: banana Dream - time traveling scholar at November 25, 2025 12:45 PM (3uBP9)

181 I'm sure somebody will blame RFKjr
Posted by: SMOD

Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock
@SenatorWarnock
Secretary Kennedy has spent his time in office spreading doubt about vaccines.
Now measles is back.
He is a threat to our health and must be fired immediately.

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Blow it out your ass, Senator Reverend.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 12:45 PM (L/fGl)

182 177 Ukraine is just a criminal syndicate with international recognition, so I'd be fine if they had to give up 100% of their territory, and their leaders all got assassinated in their Cote D'Azur mansions after they flee the country. That would be by far the best result.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 25, 2025 12:45 PM (Dg7ng)

183 You want me on Rush Hour 4...
You NEED ME on Rush Hour 4

Posted by: Col. Jessup at November 25, 2025 12:45 PM (w9Wax)

184 Also, anyone else catch the "planned school shooter sentenced" story? Turns out it's another....trans tale! Surprise....

Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 12:45 PM (XuXeR)

185 hey did indeed tell the troops to defy the president. That was the whole point of the video. The entire fucking point. If you don't see that, then I don't know what else to tell ya.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 12:30 PM (iFTx/)

They did not. No matter how upset the video made you, they did not tell the troops to defy the President. You can look up the transcript. I don't even recall the word President being used.

Did they MEAN for someone to defy their orders? Yes. But they didn't SAY it. And, as has been pointed out previously, there's legal precedent saying that what they said was, in fact, protected speech.

Once again, it sucks that a significant fraction of the country is treasonous snakes but this isn't going anywhere. If you don't see that, then I don't know what else to tell ya.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 12:40 PM (ExV1e)
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You didn't see the video, did you? He most certainly does specifically reference the Trump admin. And as I've said probably 6x now, I'm not talking about prosecuting under civilian law. I guess I have to say it again. I'm talking about going after Kelly under the UCMJ.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 12:46 PM (iFTx/)

186 143 >> KELLY: "Here's the thing, Rachel. You don't get giant spock ears, a shiny dome that people can from space, and eyes that would make a tarsier jealous unless you’ve visited a lot of penis. And I’ve visited quite a few.
Posted by: Marcus T at November 25, 2025 12:35 PM (3arSl)

lol

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 25, 2025 12:46 PM (xcxpd)

187 The Democrats have already announced that they intend to do mass arrests of ICE agents when they regain power.

Civil War 2.0 isn't going to be nearly as fun as the D's think it will be.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 25, 2025 12:46 PM (xTIDn)

188 Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says there’s ‘very good chance’ Trump names new Fed chair by Christmas

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 12:46 PM (RHGPo)

189 Imagine being a guard standing at the door when that hatchet-faced scold and her film crew start blocking out their scene around you. You're gonna be a star! In the lamest student film ever made.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 12:47 PM (BI5O2)

190 Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock
@SenatorWarnock
Secretary Kennedy has spent his time in office spreading doubt about vaccines.
Now measles is back.
He is a threat to our health and must be fired immediately.

He never told people not to vaccinate against measles... And we all know where the rise of cases has come from.....

Posted by: It's me donna at November 25, 2025 12:47 PM (VE6XX)

191 A point about Vance's comment.
Officers and enlisted take different oaths when they join the military. Enlisted swear to obey the orders of the officers appointed over them. Officers swear to truly and faithful discharge the duties of their office. And this means officers are responsible for know if the orders they give are legal or not. Enlisted are to trust their leadership in this unless the order is blatantly illegal and in violation of,say, the Geneva Concention.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2025 12:47 PM (y3bZw)

192 Ask Slotkin and Kelly to define National Socialism. Then ask for an example of Trump being a NAZI....Wait for both to pull 5 steel marbles out of their pockets, and begin talking about strawberries.

Posted by: unprogressive at November 25, 2025 12:47 PM (IByKi)

193 Speech and Debate clause, Gravel v. US 1972.
"That Senators generally perform certain acts in their official capacity as Senators does not necessarily make all such acts legislative in nature Members of Congress are constantly in touch with the Executive Branch of the Government and with administrative agencies -- they may cajole, and exhort with respect to the administration of a federal statute -- but such conduct, though generally done, is not protected legislative activity. United States v. Johnson decided at least this much.
"No argument is made, nor do we think that it could be successfully contended, that the Speech or Debate Clause reaches conduct, such as was involved in the attempt to influence the Department of Justice (in this case Dept. of War), that is in no wise related to the due functioning of the legislative process."

Posted by: whig at November 25, 2025 12:47 PM (WDjG6)

194 A drug-resistant 'super fungus' that targets the groin and bum is spreading rapidly across Britain. Cases of trichophyton indotineae - which triggers unsightly, stubborn skin lesions all over the body - are now rocketing in the UK, despite being virtually unknown just a few years ago.

Just the other day, I heard of a soldier's falling off
Some Indonesian junk that's goin' 'round

Posted by: Cheap Trick called it at November 25, 2025 12:47 PM (TbWk/)

195 I'm torn between hitting them in international waters and in US waters.
Posted by: rickb223
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I'm a "back of the skull" man myself.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators


I am too. Which is easier to defend? Whacking them in international waters or US waters?

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2025 12:48 PM (PDBoZ)

196 BREAKING: FBI is scheduling interviews with 6 lawmakers who encouraged military members to refuse 'illegal orders

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Illegal order!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 12:48 PM (L/fGl)

197 Probably more orchestrated bullshit."

Say, wonder what would happen if location services were turned on for that, too?

Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 12:49 PM (XuXeR)

198 Obviously, telling people not to break the law is equivalent to committing treason.🙄 Plans for a Nuremberg 2 cannot come soon enough.

Hegseth is nothing but another right-wing "alpha male" who is actually just a scared coward overcompensating for their inability to adapt to changing societal growth.

Well yeah, if he could lead by example he would have risen higher than Major. He was fucking middle management in the part-time army.

They are going to propel Kelly to top of the list for next president. He is the first democrat to hold his senate seat in Arizona since 1962. And he beat a republican incumbent to win it. Thats exactly what the democrats need.

Gotta love Reddit. The moderate Democrat that has taken $500k from AIPAC is suddenly the white knight of the democratic party.

Trump and his crayon munching cronies have finally picked a fight with someone who will steadfastly stand up to him. This witch hunt will indeed awaken Senator Kelly's inner fire dragon.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 25, 2025 12:49 PM (JCZqz)

199 Just the other day, I heard of a soldier's falling off
Some Indonesian junk that's goin' 'round
Posted by: Cheap Trick called it at November 25, 2025 12:47 PM (TbWk/)

Mommy's all right, Daddy's all right, they just seem a little weird!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 25, 2025 12:49 PM (xcxpd)

200 I'm torn between hitting them in international waters and in US waters.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2025 12:36 PM (PDBoZ)

They were all going to Trinidad and similar places.
This is part of a trade sending cocaine to Africa and Europe, it is the goods part of funding outside of regular national revenue, and is benefitting a lot of countries, most likely including Iran, but the Euros have a taste of it too.
I have heard it claimed that if the drug trade was shut down, a number of economies would collapse from lack of funding, not just Venezuela and Colombia. I have heard the US is one of them, but I doubt that.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 12:49 PM (rbvCR)

201 The Democrats have already announced that they intend to do mass arrests of ICE agents when they regain power.

If you thought we were becoming a banana republic under Biden, wait until Mamdani gets "elected" to the presidency.

Posted by: Halfhand at November 25, 2025 12:49 PM (EZl3y)

202 How is everyone? Do you have your shopping done?

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I'm doing well, thank you for asking and for posting.

My two sons are home plus one 's girlfriend. They're taking us to dinner tonight for my mumble mumble th birthday. I think we're going to that chef with the unfortunate name's place - Andrew Gruel - over in Huntington Harbor....maybe he'll come by and sing happy birthday LOL!!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 25, 2025 12:49 PM (QGaXH)

203 I'm torn between hitting them in international waters and in US waters.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2025 12:36 PM (PDBoZ)

Hitting them in US waters, as opposed to arresting them, could have legal issues.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 12:49 PM (ExV1e)

204 A new fungus for your nads? Fucking Brits. They love their cooties.

Stop sleeping with your pets!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at November 25, 2025 12:49 PM (WFC1M)

205 DuckTales >>>> trans tale

Posted by: banana Dream - whooOOOooooo at November 25, 2025 12:49 PM (3uBP9)

206
Trump and his crayon munching cronies have finally picked a fight with someone who will steadfastly stand up to him. This witch hunt will indeed awaken Senator Kelly's inner fire dragon.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 25, 2025 12:49 PM (JCZqz)


LOL....

Posted by: It's me donna at November 25, 2025 12:50 PM (VE6XX)

207 There is only one YouTube channel that matters now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Yeah, Rick Beato is awesome!
Posted by: Doof
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and I love the Critical Drinker!
Posted by: Darrell Harris

They are all scum.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 25, 2025 12:34 PM (3ek7K)

Harsh. I mean, Beato's a little rambly and self-important, but geez.

Posted by: Tough crowd at November 25, 2025 12:50 PM (TbWk/)

208 I'm working Thanksgiving (Mids). So, I'm making my feast for one tomorrow. Got the Turkey bits thawing right now.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 25, 2025 12:50 PM (sAmhv)

209 Secretary Kennedy has spent his time in office spreading doubt about vaccines.
Now measles is back.

Canada has a much worse measles problem now than the US does.

Is Kennedy responsible for that?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 25, 2025 12:50 PM (xTIDn)

210 From what I’ve read it doesn’t cover this garbage. In fact they were thinking about a prosecution using 18 USC 2388
Posted by: Marcus T at November 25, 2025 12:37 PM (3arSl)

The US isn't in a declared war.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 12:51 PM (ExV1e)

211 Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2025 12:47 PM (y3bZw)

Yup, the only one prosecuted for the My Lai massacre was the Lt. in charge...

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 12:51 PM (mP0Kj)

212 Navy Captain Kelley needs to be reactivated. Find out who his fellow conspirators are. Charge them all with Treason (as is defined in the Constitution: adhering to the enemies of the United States). I'll volunteer for the firing squad.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 25, 2025 12:51 PM (Da7Vv)

213 He apparently had 100% carte blanche, with everyone rubbing his balls, and nobody had the guts to say "hey, maybe this or that doesn't really work."

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 12:39 PM (iFTx/)

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The big sequence when the musician's music bends space and time?

Amateurishly filmed and kind of hilariously stupid in execution. That was the moment I went from, "Why isn't this grabbing me" to "Holy shit, Coogler's retarded."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 12:40 PM (GBKbO)
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Yea, there was some version of that scene that could have been good, but not that one. I wasn't sure if I was supposed to laugh at the modern comical rapper dudes cheaply superimposed on a bad long take, or not.

It also would helped if the supposedly supernaturally powerful music wasn't generic blues that any decent musician could have written in 20 minutes.

And don't get me started on the several times the movie stops in its tracks for a pointless scene involving eating pussy. Wtf?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 12:51 PM (iFTx/)

214
My two sons are home plus one 's girlfriend. They're taking us to dinner tonight for my mumble mumble th birthday. I think we're going to that chef with the unfortunate name's place - Andrew Gruel - over in Huntington Harbor....maybe he'll come by and sing happy birthday LOL!!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 25, 2025 12:49 PM (QGaXH)

Happy Birthday...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 25, 2025 12:51 PM (VE6XX)

215 Speech or Debate Clause applies within the duties of the member of Congress. It can also apply to their aides. I don't think making a video is within dutiet

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 12:51 PM (bfwj/)

216 Hitting them in US waters, as opposed to arresting them, could have legal issues.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 12:49 PM (ExV1e)

Arresting them and taking them into US custody will wind up treating the crews in the US justice system like Kilmar-Garcia

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 12:51 PM (rbvCR)

217 I'm torn between hitting them in international waters and in US waters.
Posted by: rickb223

I vote aye.

Posted by: t-bird at November 25, 2025 12:51 PM (XFXIk)

218 198 They are going to propel Kelly to top of the list for next president. He is the first democrat to hold his senate seat in Arizona since 1962. And he beat a republican incumbent to win it. Thats exactly what the democrats need.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 25, 2025 12:49 PM (JCZqz)

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Dems are desperate to not choose Kamala.

Except 60% of the Democrat primary electorate is going to be black women...her most loyal cohort.

The left assuming Kamala won't even run and then running through not-Kamalas as they argue about how everyone is better than Kamala and then becoming Kamala superfans again is going to be really fun to watch.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 12:52 PM (GBKbO)

219 84 Also, anyone else catch the "planned school shooter sentenced" story? Turns out it's another....trans tale! Surprise....

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At this point in time, I am convinced every trans person is actively planning to groom kids or kill kids

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at November 25, 2025 12:52 PM (iNURe)

220 The priest visits the condemned navy captain in his cell and the condemned man says, "I didn't tell soldiers to disobey orders or direct them to be insubordinate. I'm innocent!"

The priest says, "While you carefully avoided giving direct instructions to disobey commands, you were expecting that to be the results of your words. Sedition was in your heart."

The priest then walks out while the perspiring prisoner grips the bars with his tiny hands and screams his claims of innocence into the void.

Posted by: Oglebay at November 25, 2025 12:52 PM (2ap+5)

221 My asshrooms is still making me laugh. I'm glad I crack me up.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 12:52 PM (3uBP9)

222 210 From what I’ve read it doesn’t cover this garbage. In fact they were thinking about a prosecution using 18 USC 2388
Posted by: Marcus T at November 25, 2025 12:37 PM (3arSl)

The US isn't in a declared war.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 12:51 PM (ExV1e)

It's more fun when it's a surprise

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 25, 2025 12:52 PM (xcxpd)

223 awaken Senator Kelly's inner fire dragon"

So, pepcid, pepto, or immodium?

Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 12:52 PM (XuXeR)

224 Amazing. I heard the unmistakable shriek of a pterodactyl swooping in. Paleontologists believe that the terrible sound was meant to frighten the pterodactyl's prey, shocking them in place for an easy kill.

But, egad, they've been extinct for a hundred and fifty million years!

[takes pipe out of jacket, fills with bubble juice, blows many bubbles, contemplates quietly, puts pipe back]

Intriguing...
Posted by: banana Dream


Who knew my ex's mother was a pterodactyl?

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2025 12:52 PM (PDBoZ)

225 As I said in Diogenes' previous thread on the topic, this mostly empty stupid political posturing controversy is sort of trivial compared to the stunning incitements to violence against federal law enforcement (ICE) that have become common among many elected public officials.

And people are getting roiled up over this rather than focusing on that. As intended.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 12:52 PM (ExV1e)

226 be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House,
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I take this to mean, anything said IN THE BUILDING

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 12:53 PM (AOsQT)

227 Yup, the only one prosecuted for the My Lai massacre was the Lt. in charge...

Of course. After all, Colin Powell was in that chain of command.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 25, 2025 12:53 PM (xTIDn)

228 Posted by: Halfhand at November 25, 2025 12:49 PM (EZl3y)

He is not a natural born citizen. Mamdani is not eligible.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 12:53 PM (ix8EF)

229 182 177 Ukraine is just a criminal syndicate with international recognition, so I'd be fine if they had to give up 100% of their territory, and their leaders all got assassinated in their Cote D'Azur mansions after they flee the country.
Posted by: The Lower Depths

The last thing we need is a smoldering terrorism war (Putin doesn't really need that either if he wants to stay in charge). The Russians ain't got the troops to do what was done in the USSR and Warsaw Pact days for occupation and I guarantee that arms, etc will be entering from all sides to make occupation a misery and a massive threat into widening the war to include NATO members.

To some degree, Israel has the same problem, unless they run a war of extermination or somehow force the Palestinians to exit Gaza and/or the West Bank, they will simply bide their time until the next attempt. If Israel did either force Palis out of Gaza and the West Bank or try to exterminate them, then in turn, probably all the Arab states would be destabilized to the point of regime overthrows in some of those neighboring states.

Sometimes being stronger than the enemy is not enough 'win' strategically.



Posted by: whig at November 25, 2025 12:53 PM (WDjG6)

230 >>> From what I’ve read it doesn’t cover this garbage. In fact they were thinking about a prosecution using 18 USC 2388
Posted by: Marcus T at November 25, 2025 12:37 PM (3arSl)

The US isn't in a declared war.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 12:51 PM (ExV1e)

It's more fun when it's a surprise
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 25, 2025 12:52 PM (xcxpd)


^^^this

Posted by: anal at November 25, 2025 12:54 PM (3uBP9)

231 every trans person is actively planning to groom kids or kill kids"

So, "more like me or none at all"?

You have a good point there...

Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 12:54 PM (XuXeR)

232 Just the other day, I heard of a soldier's falling off

When I told that story people laughed.

Posted by: Zombie Buddy Hackett at November 25, 2025 12:54 PM (3nLb4)

233 Maybe something changed in the last few hours but the original reports this morning were that Ukraine had accepted the major points of the deal and there just a few minor issues to be cleared up.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2025 12:39 PM (viF8m)

I saw yesterday - questionable sources so who knows - that the hangup is that Zelensky wants the audit stopped and immunity for all members of his government for missing money.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 12:54 PM (ExV1e)

234 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 12:54 PM (Zz0t1)

235 I take this to mean, anything said IN THE BUILDING

That's certainly what the British think - a standard retort in the House of Commons is to invite an opponent making libelous comments on the floor of the House of Commons to repeat those comments elsewhere.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 25, 2025 12:54 PM (xTIDn)

236 Does everyone have their turkeys defrosted?

If it's still frozen, here's what you've got to do:
Leave it in the original wrapping.
Put it in your kitchen sink.
Fill the sink with cold water.
Then either change the water every 30 minutes, or leave cold water trickling.
You'll need to do this for 30 minutes per pound.
For a 20 pound bird, this will be 10 hours.

Get started right now if you haven't already!

Posted by: bonhomme at November 25, 2025 12:55 PM (Yp6az)

237 Somewhere PFC Jones will refuse to obey an order. They’ll get their headlines and it’ll be a story for a couple of days. Then they’ll all move on to the next thing, leaving PFC Jones to languish in the brig awaiting a general court martial.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 25, 2025 12:55 PM (u73oe)

238 He is not a natural born citizen. Mamdani is not eligible."

Heh.

/Some Hawaiian Judge

Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 12:55 PM (XuXeR)

239 Otherwise, think about it: Military orders mean nothing. Every single troop would be empowered to refuse any order, claiming that in his personal, private estimation, he thought it might be illegal.


I'm old enough to remember, under GWB, when the military had a load of "conscientious objectors" spread throughout it's ranks.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 12:55 PM (Zz0t1)

240 I take this to mean, anything said IN THE BUILDING
Posted by: Don Black

Gravel v. US is the current case on point. I am unclear exactly the circumstances of the speech but it is difficult to discern a legislative purpose behind the speech which is the test in Gravel.

Previous precedent already restricted Congress critters ability to lobby etc. (in return for bribes from donors) the executive.

Posted by: whig at November 25, 2025 12:55 PM (WDjG6)

241 Kilmar-Garcia

Kilmar Abrego-Garcia

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 12:56 PM (rbvCR)

242 The US isn't in a declared war.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 12:51 PM (ExV1e)



We've had a 'declared' War on Drugs since the 80s.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 12:56 PM (Zz0t1)

243
Kilmar Abrego-Garcia
Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 12:56 PM (rbvCR)

Who still hasn't been removed...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 25, 2025 12:57 PM (VE6XX)

244 Cilmar landlord. C-I-L mar landlord.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 12:57 PM (Zz0t1)

245 ^^^this
Posted by: anal"

Hey!
/otters

Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 12:57 PM (XuXeR)

246
You can cook a turkey from a frozen state and it will turn out fine. Breasts only recommended.

Posted by: Auspex at November 25, 2025 12:57 PM (Y8DZL)

247 Ukraine is just a criminal syndicate with international recognition...

In fairness to Ukraine, I can't, off the top of my head, think of a country which isn't.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 12:57 PM (ExV1e)

248 229 I'm actually not that sure how "Ukrainian" most citizens of that country even are (outside of Galicia, which was part of Austria-Hungary and not Czarist Russia anyway).

I agree that Russia has no interests in occupying most of Ukraine and probably not the means either, but Ukrainians are like the trans-pyrsyns of the international world. Palestinians are fake, but not gay. The French are gay but not fake. Most Ukrainians are both fake and gay, and the NAFO crowd online stoke their delusions like reddit does to a future trans-shooter.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 25, 2025 12:57 PM (Dg7ng)

249 247 Ukraine is just a criminal syndicate with international recognition...

In fairness to Ukraine, I can't, off the top of my head, think of a country which isn't.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 12:57 PM (ExV1e)

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Touché

Posted by: Oglebay at November 25, 2025 12:58 PM (2ap+5)

250 Otherwise, think about it: Military orders mean nothing. Every single troop would be empowered to refuse any order, claiming that in his personal, private estimation, he thought it might be illegal.


I'm old enough to remember, under GWB, when the military had a load of "conscientious objectors" spread throughout it's ranks.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 12:55 PM (Zz0t1)
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Come on, dude. That was clearly during the period when DISSENT WAS PATRIOTIC. Duh. You have to get your timing straight. Dissent didn't become illegal until 2008. Then patriotic again in 2016. Then illegal again ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 12:58 PM (iFTx/)

251 I'm talking about going after Kelly under the UCMJ.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 12:46 PM (iFTx/)

Brace yourself for disappointment.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 12:58 PM (ExV1e)

252 Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock...
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Uh...no. Emphatically no. When one advocates for abortion rights, one is not a "Reverend", regardless of how one spends one's time on Sunday mornings.

Posted by: Crusader at November 25, 2025 12:58 PM (TN0g+)

253 242 The US isn't in a declared war.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 12:51 PM (ExV1e)



We've had a 'declared' War on Drugs since the 80s.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 12:56 PM (Zz0t1)

That's a war of law enforcement against civilians and the Bill of Rights. Different kind of war. Arguably worse.

Posted by: He might have had drugs so we shot him at November 25, 2025 12:58 PM (TbWk/)

254 If it's still frozen, here's what you've got to do:
Leave it in the original wrapping."

Yep. Then toss it. Then go get real food.

Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 12:58 PM (XuXeR)

255 The left assuming Kamala won't even run and then running through not-Kamalas as they argue about how everyone is better than Kamala and then becoming Kamala superfans again is going to be really fun to watch.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Democrat candidate selection nowadays are most akin to Théâtre du Grand-Guignol . Behn, their candidate running in the TN special election next week, is what these hideous freaks are under their meat puppet facades.

Posted by: whig at November 25, 2025 12:59 PM (WDjG6)

256 I saw yesterday - questionable sources so who knows - that the hangup is that Zelensky wants the audit stopped and immunity for all members of his government for missing money.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 12:54 PM (ExV1e)

I heard that too, but I didn't notice that element in the 28 points laid out.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 12:59 PM (rbvCR)

257 I'm talking about going after Kelly under the UCMJ.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 12:46 PM (iFTx/)

Brace yourself for disappointment.
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"The Process is the Punishment."

Posted by: Crusader at November 25, 2025 12:59 PM (TN0g+)

258 Touché"

That near Madagascar?

Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 12:59 PM (XuXeR)

259 Zelensky wants the audit stopped and immunity for all members of his government for missing money.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Ahhh, the Biden protocol.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 12:59 PM (L/fGl)

260 247 Yeah, but most of those have some actual cultural history stretching back more than 120 years. Ukrainians are to Europe what Palestinians are to West Asia - confused cosplayers.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 25, 2025 12:59 PM (Dg7ng)

261 I'm talking about going after Kelly under the UCMJ.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 12:46 PM (iFTx/)

Brace yourself for disappointment.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 12:58 PM (ExV1e)
______

Already am. See my first comment above. But you miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 12:59 PM (iFTx/)

262 The priest says, "While you carefully avoided giving direct instructions to disobey commands, you were expecting that to be the results of your words. Sedition was in your heart."

The priest then walks out while the perspiring prisoner grips the bars with his tiny hands and screams his claims of innocence into the void.
Posted by: Oglebay at November 25, 2025 12:52 PM (2ap+5)

If that were the standard, this Government would have been justified to have executed me several dozen times over.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 12:59 PM (uWKK8)

263 244, LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 25, 2025 12:59 PM (Cjt/F)

264 These people are setting up servicemen to destroy their lives and wind up in Leavenworth but get all butthurt and defensive if anyone hints that they, themselves, might suffer consequences for their statements.

Posted by: 29Victor at November 25, 2025 12:59 PM (0MjtC)

265 238 He is not a natural born citizen. Mamdani is not eligible."

Heh.

/Some Hawaiian Judge
Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 12:55 PM (XuXeR)

For almost 200 years, there was no such thing as a dual citizen in the US... until the Supreme Court over rode the clear Constitutional power of the Congress to regulate Citizenship and immigration issues.

Because the Founders never intended there to be any dual Citizens, the ONLY requirements they put in the Constitution for offices was you had to be a Citizen... but when the Supremes screwed that up, no one has ever bothered to address the issues when you have people of divided Loyalty, holding major Offices.

We need to fix that.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 01:00 PM (mP0Kj)

266 The Ukes better agree to something. The Russians are grinding the Ukes down to the point of no reserves

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 01:00 PM (bfwj/)

267 The US isn't in a declared war.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 12:51 PM (ExV1e)



We've had a 'declared' War on Drugs since the 80s.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 12:56 PM (Zz0t1)

That's a war of law enforcement against civilians and the Bill of Rights. Different kind of war. Arguably worse.
------

I remember when we used to have the courage to name an actual enemy rather than a cause or state of mind.

Posted by: The War on Terror at November 25, 2025 01:01 PM (TN0g+)

268 SLOTKIN: "To my knowledge I am not aware of things that are illegal."
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That is approaching Kumallah type of word saladness.

To my knowledge.... I am not aware. Stop, that was all that needed to be spewed.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at November 25, 2025 01:01 PM (xvV+O)

269 Arresting them and taking them into US custody will wind up treating the crews in the US justice system like Kilmar-Garcia
Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 12:51 PM (rbvCR)

Correct. Which is why it's better to just blow them up in international waters.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 01:01 PM (ExV1e)

270 >> I'm talking about going after Kelly under the UCMJ.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 12:46 PM (iFTx/)
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Brace yourself for disappointment.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 12:58 PM (ExV1e)
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Go through the motions anyway. The process being the punishment and all...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2025 01:01 PM (NwnyJ)

271 244, LOL!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 25, 2025 12:59 PM (Cjt/F)


I always hold out hope for someone in The Horde to get my jokes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 01:01 PM (Zz0t1)

272 Senator Kelly's inner fire dragon.
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Holy hell these people live inside a romance novel.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 01:01 PM (E0p3T)

273 Can we get Milley back in uniform and court martial his ass for his actions during President Trumps last time in office?

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at November 25, 2025 01:01 PM (4q/mG)

274 You can cook a turkey from a frozen state and it will turn out fine. Breasts only recommended.
Posted by: Auspex at November 25, 2025 12:57 PM (Y8DZL)

Get the turkey fryer oil up to temperature, then carefully lower the frozen turkey into the fryer.

Posted by: Hilarity ensues at November 25, 2025 01:02 PM (TbWk/)

275 > You can cook a turkey from a frozen state and it will turn out fine. Breasts only recommended.

Don't do a whole bird from frozen.
1. It takes 50% longer to cook.
2. Do NOT put stuffing inside a frozen bird, it won't reach the recommended temperature.
3. The breast meat will be drier
4. The outer meat will overcook compared to the inner meat

Posted by: bonhomme at November 25, 2025 01:02 PM (Yp6az)

276
The "natural born" clause is meaningless if one side wants to construct a fake background for their preferred candidate.

Just like calling yourself a woman while sporting a penis.

Not that these things could happen in conjunction with the other.

Posted by: Auspex at November 25, 2025 01:02 PM (Y8DZL)

277 I saw yesterday - questionable sources so who knows - that the hangup is that Zelensky wants the audit stopped and immunity for all members of his government for missing money.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 12:54 PM (ExV1e)

Stands to reason.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 01:02 PM (npFr7)

278 My Lai narrative made any fucking sense. An officer went native and started going all Colonel Kurtz; a Warrant officer and helo crew stopped him. What's the controversy?

Yes, it was a crime. It was stopped in progress.

You can argue that Calley's sentence was too light, and I'd agree - but the crime itself was shocking because it was exceptional, and no civilian authority apprehended Lt. Calley. That was done on the scene, by his own inferiors, who were enforcing directives from above him.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 01:02 PM (BI5O2)

279 There is a body of law, particularly in fraud, where the jury is permitted to infer that the speaker intended the listener to be deceived--even if what the speaker said was technically correct.

The law, when it's not being subverted by clown judges, is pretty well equipped to deal with technical equivocations.

And I think that applies here:
Yes, what they said was not, technically, illegal.
But they also knew exactly how it would be heard.
And that was their real intention--that it was to be heard, by the troops, as "Trump is issuing illegal orders and you must defy them."
Any other interpretation is nonsense and lies.

Prosecute them for that--their intention to incite.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 01:03 PM (T3zUV)

280 206
Trump and his crayon munching cronies have finally picked a fight with someone who will steadfastly stand up to him. This witch hunt will indeed awaken Senator Kelly's inner fire dragon.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 25, 2025 12:49 PM (JCZqz)

What's wrong with these people? I wouldn't want to underrate Kelly but inner fire dragon? Really? That seems kind of absurd.

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at November 25, 2025 01:03 PM (kTd/k)

281 These people are setting up servicemen to destroy their lives and wind up in Leavenworth but get all butthurt and defensive if anyone hints that they, themselves, might suffer consequences for their statements.
Posted by: 29Victor at November 25, 2025 12:59 PM (0MjtC)

Maybe might take some of the time previously allotted to dignity-DEI-Equity training and do a quick review of legal and illegal orders just in case anyone is hazy on the concept

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 01:03 PM (rbvCR)

282 Senator Kelly's inner fire dragon.
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Holy hell these people live inside a romance novel.
Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 01:01 PM (E0p3T)
_______

"Yea, I know. They buy my books!"

-- C. M. Nascosta

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 01:03 PM (iFTx/)

283 We can't stop the free money going to illegal criminal invaders because somebody promised them a free ride.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at November 25, 2025 01:04 PM (xvV+O)

284
Don't do a whole bird from frozen.
1. It takes 50% longer to cook.
2. Do NOT put stuffing inside a frozen bird, it won't reach the recommended temperature.
3. The breast meat will be drier
4. The outer meat will overcook compared to the inner meat
Posted by: bonhomme at November 25, 2025 01:02 PM (Yp6az)


Start with the frozen bird in an oven set to 110 degrees for 8 hours.

Up the oven temp to 375 for another 8 hours.

Enjoy turkey jerky with the inside like Clark Griswald's Christmas feast.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 01:04 PM (Zz0t1)

285 Heh, Oak Island Night.
Posted by: Pudinhead
.....

Hope the metal detector chick finds as bobbydazzler and gets all excited.

Posted by: wth at November 25, 2025 01:04 PM (v0R5T)

286 The only way it's Kamala is if the fix is definitely in. If the fix somehow isn't in, there is no way in hell its Kamala.

IOW if Kamala is the candidate, bet the farm on her taking the GE.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 01:04 PM (E0p3T)

287 "The Process is the Punishment."
Posted by: Crusader at November 25, 2025 12:59 PM (TN0g+)

Not when the referee is on your side.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 01:04 PM (ExV1e)

288 > SLOTKIN: "To my knowledge I am not aware of things that are illegal."
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She should be pressed on the "to my knowledge" part. Either you do believe or do not believe Trump has issued illegal orders.

They all should be sweated out at FBI HQ over the next couple days anyway. Whether they're charged is irrelevant as we all know they won't be.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2025 01:04 PM (NwnyJ)

289 I have the day off and wanted silly spy fluff, so I'm giving Argylle a try.

WHO green lit this? The actors are genuinely trying their hardest to make it fun. It's pretty. It's slick production design. But the plot is a wordy disfunctional mess. The pacing is a slog. I should be a 2/3 of the way through this and I'm not even halfway. WHY is this 2.5 hours?!

Silver lining... If this can get made, I shouldn't give up on writing my novels! It's like mirror universe inspiration mode.

Posted by: LizLem at November 25, 2025 01:05 PM (gWBY1)

290 You can cook a turkey from a frozen state and it will turn out fine. Breasts only recommended.
Posted by: Auspex at November 25, 2025 12:57 PM (Y8DZL)

Get the turkey fryer oil up to temperature, then carefully lower the frozen turkey into the fryer.
Posted by: Hilarity ensues
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Should one call the fire department ahead of time, or merely have someone on standby ready to do so?

Posted by: Crusader at November 25, 2025 01:05 PM (TN0g+)

291 What's wrong with these people? I wouldn't want to underrate Kelly but inner fire dragon? Really? That seems kind of absurd.
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at November 25, 2025 01:03 PM (kTd/k)


They talk like fags and their shit's all retarded.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 01:05 PM (Zz0t1)

292 What's wrong with these people? I wouldn't want to underrate Kelly but inner fire dragon? Really? That seems kind of absurd.
Posted by: Still lurking up north
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Many of them read fantasy and think the world works that way. Word spells, that sort of thing. That is why they blather on about 'my truth' instead of an objective Truth. Same reason that real Christianity is loathed by them because it denies their cozy bubble world because Jesus is Logos incarnate.

Posted by: whig at November 25, 2025 01:05 PM (WDjG6)

293 Yea, I know. They buy my books!"

-- C. M. Nascosta"

Mine too!
/Margaret Atwood

Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 01:05 PM (XuXeR)

294 264 These people are setting up servicemen to destroy their lives and wind up in Leavenworth but get all butthurt and defensive if anyone hints that they, themselves, might suffer consequences for their statements.
Posted by: 29Victor

Laws are for controlling and punishing normies, not the downtrodden, poor, or otherwise oppressed. For example:

Last year, there were 3,325 occasions when courts declined to send a newly-convicted man or woman to prison despite them having 50 or more previous convictions. In 252 of these cases, the person in the dock had more than 100 past convictions yet was still not jailed.

The figures, which cover England and Wales...

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 25, 2025 01:05 PM (JCZqz)

295 286 The only way it's Kamala is if the fix is definitely in. If the fix somehow isn't in, there is no way in hell its Kamala.

IOW if Kamala is the candidate, bet the farm on her taking the GE.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 01:04 PM (E0p3T)

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Everyone in politics is acting like she's not even going to run.

She wins almost every single presidential primary poll.

Her popularity is despite the Democrat establishment and most centers of power. They simply cannot stop her.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:06 PM (GBKbO)

296 Senator Kelly's inner fire dragon.
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Holy hell these people live inside a romance novel.
Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 01:01 PM (E0p3T)

Maybe they were suggesting that he had the clap.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 01:06 PM (ExV1e)

297 Defrosting frozen turkeys is why God invented the reliable and still running garage refrigerator. Also for when beer goes on sale.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at November 25, 2025 01:06 PM (xvV+O)

298 The Ukes better agree to something. The Russians are grinding the Ukes down to the point of no reserves
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 01:00 PM (bfwj/)

A friend pointed out that the Russians were bleeding 18-35 year olds too since the Russians announced the draft.
On consideration, were I a Western European country, I would be quite concerned about large numbers of military service-age Russians suddenly wandering into my country were I in open conflict with Russia. But that is me.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 01:06 PM (rbvCR)

299 Impeach.

Posted by: Zek at November 25, 2025 01:06 PM (5FPX4)

300 @Not_the_Bee
·
1h
Liberal female judge overturns conviction of Somali man found guilty of stealing $7.2M from Medicaid

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 01:06 PM (AOsQT)

301 I agree that Russia has no interests in occupying most of Ukraine and probably not the means either, but Ukrainians are like the trans-pyrsyns of the international world. Palestinians are fake, but not gay. The French are gay but not fake. Most Ukrainians are both fake and gay, and the NAFO crowd online stoke their delusions like reddit does to a future trans-shooter.
Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 25, 2025 12:57 PM (Dg7ng)

I think part of the problem is that the Eastern part of Ukraine is ethnically mostly Russian... they spoke Russian, their Docs were in Russian, right up until Z man made it illegal.

There is an ethnic piece to this that most in the West don't want to acknowledge.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 01:06 PM (mP0Kj)

302 Get the turkey fryer oil up to temperature, then carefully lower the frozen turkey into the fryer.
Posted by: Hilarity ensues at November 25, 2025 01:02 PM (TbWk/)

Pass frozen turkey through bandsaw several times to cut it into 2" slabs. Microwave each slab 5 minutes per side to thaw. Reassemble slabs with Krazy glue. Stuff and roast as customary.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 01:07 PM (npFr7)

303 289 I have the day off and wanted silly spy fluff, so I'm giving Argylle a try.

WHO green lit this? The actors are genuinely trying their hardest to make it fun. It's pretty. It's slick production design. But the plot is a wordy disfunctional mess. The pacing is a slog. I should be a 2/3 of the way through this and I'm not even halfway. WHY is this 2.5 hours?!

Silver lining... If this can get made, I shouldn't give up on writing my novels! It's like mirror universe inspiration mode.

Posted by: LizLem at November 25, 2025 01:05 PM (gWBY1)

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I think it's...okay. I really enjoy the third act, it's absurd and fun and colorful and fun.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:07 PM (GBKbO)

304 > Enjoy turkey jerky with the inside like Clark Griswald's Christmas feast.

*shudders*

Posted by: bonhomme at November 25, 2025 01:07 PM (Yp6az)

305
Her popularity is despite the Democrat establishment and most centers of power. They simply cannot stop her.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:06 PM (GBKbO)


They're polling Xcrement and all the responses are from foreign countries masquerading as the US.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 01:07 PM (Zz0t1)

306 Senator Kelly's inner fire dragon.
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Holy hell these people live inside a romance novel.
Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 01:01 PM (E0p3T)

Maybe they were suggesting that he had the clap.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 01:06 PM (ExV1e)

They want to work at the Mark Kelly Morning Glory Milking Farm

Posted by: Now with 15% less Minotaur at November 25, 2025 01:07 PM (TbWk/)

307 There is only one YouTube channel that matters now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 12:18 PM (GBKbO)

I don't know, man.

The Pitch Meeting guy's seems to have gone on a permanent hiatus.

Can you even say he's got a You Tube channel now?

Posted by: naturalfake at November 25, 2025 01:07 PM (iJfKG)

308 285 Heh, Oak Island Night.
Posted by: Pudinhead
.....
Hope the metal detector chick finds as bobbydazzler and gets all excited.
Posted by: wth

You want thingamabobs? I've got 20!

Posted by: Ariel at November 25, 2025 01:08 PM (JCZqz)

309 Holy hell these people live inside a romance novel.
Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 01:01 PM (E0p3T)

I have an inner panda. I was hoping it was an inner red panda, or maybe a racoon with mange and maybe facility with a tire iron, but no, it is a panda.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 01:08 PM (rbvCR)

310 305 They're polling Xcrement and all the responses are from foreign countries masquerading as the US.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 01:07 PM (Zz0t1)

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Black women, who will make up the majority of the Democrat primary electorate, love her, think she's real, and think she wasn't given a fair shot.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:08 PM (GBKbO)

311 > Defrosting frozen turkeys is why God invented the reliable and still running garage refrigerator.

This method is preferable if you remembered to start several days ago. If you forgot, follow the water bath method I posted upthread.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 25, 2025 01:08 PM (Yp6az)

312
Does everyone have their turkeys defrosted?

If it's still frozen, here's what you've got to do:
Leave it in the original wrapping.
Put it in your kitchen sink.
Fill the sink with cold water.
Then either change the water every 30 minutes, or leave cold water trickling.
You'll need to do this for 30 minutes per pound.
For a 20 pound bird, this will be 10 hours.
Get started right now if you haven't already!
Posted by: bonhomme


OR

You could just leave it to the last minute. Fire up the deep fryer i. Your attached garage, and drop it in. Works everytime.
- DU dumbasses everywhere

"I'm stupid enough to vote Donk, so this should work great!" Thanks internet!"

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 25, 2025 01:08 PM (QVmho)

313 Black women, who will make up the majority of the Democrat primary electorate, love her, think she's real, and think she wasn't given a fair shot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:08 PM (GBKbO)


Black women make up, what, 4% of the population?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 01:09 PM (Zz0t1)

314 Her popularity is despite the Democrat establishment and most centers of power. They simply cannot stop her.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:06 PM (GBKbO)

Yet she was squeezed in last time, didn't win shit, and couldn't beat Trump anywhere. That doesn't look like a great setup for a comeback.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 01:09 PM (E0p3T)

315 follow the water bath method"

Now I'm supposed to take a bath with it?

*shudders*

Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 01:09 PM (XuXeR)

316 For reasons, I cannot do all my Thanksgiving food
Shopping until this afternoon. If I don't make it back alive, you've been my fave blog for over 20 years, and I'm so thankful you lot have put up with me for all this time.

Luckily I only have to cook for 4 this year! If you're cooking for 4 you might as well cook for 6, so I'm trying to see if anyone I know is going to be alone and needs a family to eat with. Hoping I find someone!

Posted by: LizLem at November 25, 2025 01:09 PM (gWBY1)

317 A drug-resistant 'super fungus' that targets the groin and bum is spreading rapidly across Britain. Cases of trichophyton indotineae - which triggers unsightly, stubborn skin lesions all over the body - are now rocketing in the UK, despite being virtually unknown just a few years ago.
.......

UK travel ban!

Posted by: wth at November 25, 2025 01:10 PM (v0R5T)

318 Pull the turkey from the freezer and set it in a pan on your stove for 24 hours. Put it back in a refrigerator for another 24 hours.

Should be good and thawed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 01:10 PM (Zz0t1)

319 Anyone old enough to remember Democrats praising Mark Milley for his mutiny at the end of the first Trump administration in which he surreptitiously made contact with China and informed the Chinese that he would disobey the duly elected President's orders? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at November 25, 2025 01:10 PM (ssz2a)

320 Black women make up, what, 4% of the population?"

99.7 percent, according to current day advertising.

Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 01:10 PM (XuXeR)

321 Silver lining... If this can get made, I shouldn't give up on writing my novels! It's like mirror universe inspiration mode.
Posted by: LizLem at November 25, 2025 01:05 PM (gWBY1)

Keep writing. Make it fun.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 01:10 PM (rbvCR)

322 think she wasn't given a fair shot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:08 PM (GBKbO)

They do live in Dreamland considering the woman was literally handed the nomination and her only qualification was opening her eyes that morning.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 01:10 PM (E0p3T)

323 313 Black women, who will make up the majority of the Democrat primary electorate, love her, think she's real, and think she wasn't given a fair shot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:08 PM (GBKbO)


Black women make up, what, 4% of the population?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 01:09 PM (Zz0t1)

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But will make up a clear majority of the primary electorate in South Carolina, and will make up an oversized portion in almost every other state's primary.

Because black women are some of the super voters of the Democrat Party.

The winner of the SC primary doesn't just fade away. The winners of the Iowa caucuses can just fade away. The winners of NH can just fade away (although, they won't actually vote until like April because the NH party is being punished by the DNC for something).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:11 PM (GBKbO)

324 I would think dunking a frozen bird into a cauldron of hot oil would lead to an undesirable surprise, because science

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 01:11 PM (AOsQT)

325 Members of Congress are openly calling for a military coup . If they get away with this then the president is no longer commander in chief.

Posted by: Matthew Proctor at November 25, 2025 01:11 PM (OdsgZ)

326 Liberal female judge overturns conviction of Somali man found guilty of stealing $7.2M from Medicaid
Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 01:06 PM (AOsQT)

https://tinyurl.com/mzbu56us - more info

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 01:11 PM (ExV1e)

327 Black women make up, what, 4% of the population?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

But they are a loud and angry 4%, and a much larger percentage of the Democrat vote. The Left Establishment has to at least PRETEND to care about them.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 25, 2025 01:11 PM (JCZqz)

328 99.7 percent, according to current day advertising.
Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 01:10 PM (XuXeR)


And are having families with white men, according to the same advertising.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 01:11 PM (Zz0t1)

329 BTW that Kelley had called for Hegseth's resignation for sending classified info via Signal. Because "this is the kind of thing that can get people killed."
Really Senator I-Was-A-Hero-In-My-Own-Mind?
Telling soldiers to mull over orders to fire, not fire, etc isn't entirely destructive of military execution and discipline, and not the sort of thing that gets people killed?
This assclown should be hauled before a military court.
You say you're such a Military Guy?
You should 100% know better, and you did.

Posted by: Zek at November 25, 2025 01:11 PM (5FPX4)

330 I'm trying just the turkey breast cut this time. Essentially the mermaid of the turkey world. I mean, I like the other parts, the "dark meat"** But I wanted to make less just for the three of us and nobody likes the other parts but me.



**This is what I'm calling the mermaid lower parts from now on too.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 01:11 PM (3uBP9)

331 Holy hell these people live inside a romance novel.
Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 01:01 PM (E0p3T)

I have an inner panda. I was hoping it was an inner red panda, or maybe a racoon with mange and maybe facility with a tire iron, but no, it is a panda.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 01:08 PM (rbvCR)
____

Pandas were once the greatest of all bears. The Xiongmao Zhanshi: The legendary panda warrior caste, resplendent in their bamboo armor and shields.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 01:12 PM (iFTx/)

332 Black women make up, what, 4% of the population?
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I'm guessing 6.6% of the US Population, and 41% of the population seen in US television commercials.

Posted by: Crusader at November 25, 2025 01:12 PM (TN0g+)

333 314
Yet she was squeezed in last time, didn't win shit, and couldn't beat Trump anywhere. That doesn't look like a great setup for a comeback.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 01:09 PM (E0p3T)

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And yet...she still gets near majority support in almost every poll while the "great white hopes" of Beshear, Moore, and Shapiro can't get above 5%.

And Newsom is fading.

Kamala's name recognition and her black support is going to make the 2028 Democrat primary shockingly boring.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:12 PM (GBKbO)

334 Going to pick up Cornish game hens this evening. If I can’t find them, the fallback is roasting chicken.

Nobody in my family really likes turkey much.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at November 25, 2025 01:12 PM (H7PeR)

335 > Pull the turkey from the freezer and set it in a pan on your stove for 24 hours. Put it back in a refrigerator for another 24 hours.

This method is possibly dangerous. Part of the outside may reach the danger zone while the inside is still frozen.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 25, 2025 01:12 PM (Yp6az)

336 I'm trying to see if anyone I know is going to be alone and needs a family to eat with. Hoping I find someone!
Posted by: LizLem at November 25, 2025 01:09 PM (gWBY1)

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If they say no, don't feel bad. My coworker is a single lady and she gets invited places, but she said she really prefers to spend the day alone sometimes.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 01:13 PM (DRSnL)

337 >>> You could just leave it to the last minute. Fire up the deep fryer i Your attached garage, and drop it in. Works everytime.
- DU dumbasses everywhere
"I'm stupid enough to vote Donk, so this should work great!" Thanks internet!"

And fill the fryer up with oil to the brim, so you will get the whole bird submerged? And fry it on top of a wood deck?

(Warning: do NOT do this. Now I want to search for turkey fryer fails.)

Posted by: LizLem at November 25, 2025 01:13 PM (gWBY1)

338
Kamala's name recognition and her black support is going to make the 2028 Democrat primary shockingly boring.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:12 PM (GBKbO)

Why isn't the market bearing this out if it's so obvious?

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 01:13 PM (E0p3T)

339 I'm trying to see if anyone I know is going to be alone and needs a family to eat with. Hoping I find someone!
Posted by: LizLem at November 25, 2025 01:09 PM (gWBY1)
___

[Makes "call me" gesture]

-- Hunter Biden

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 01:14 PM (iFTx/)

340 >>> This method is possibly dangerous. Part of the outside may reach the danger zone while the inside is still frozen.
Posted by: bonhomme at November 25, 2025 01:12 PM (Yp6az)


DAANJA ZONE

Posted by: TV's Archer at November 25, 2025 01:14 PM (3uBP9)

341 I'm responsible for mashed potatoes but I can't find my electric mixer.

Posted by: wth at November 25, 2025 01:14 PM (v0R5T)

342 I would think dunking a frozen bird into a cauldron of hot oil would lead to an undesirable surprise, because science
Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 01:11 PM (AOsQT)


I was looking for a good video, but most of them look staged where the oil is WAY to high in the pot and causes a massive fireball.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 01:14 PM (Zz0t1)

343 And are having families with white men, according to the same advertising.
Posted by: Sponge
___

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 25, 2025 01:14 PM (22p5n)

344 338
Kamala's name recognition and her black support is going to make the 2028 Democrat primary shockingly boring.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:12 PM (GBKbO)

Why isn't the market bearing this out if it's so obvious?

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 01:13 PM (E0p3T)

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Because the markets are bad predictors?

Because they're small markets driven by white progressives who think Shapiro, who has 1% black support, has a better shot than Kamala?

Because the markets are...stupid and reactive?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:14 PM (GBKbO)

345 I guess I'll take stick for this but I don't even like turkey.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 01:14 PM (E0p3T)

346 My Lai narrative made any fucking sense. An officer went native and started going all Colonel Kurtz; a Warrant officer and helo crew stopped him. What's the controversy?

-
I saw a good documentary on PBS (swear to God!) about a guy who opened his father's old memorabilia box and found his father had been an SOE (although he was a naturalized US citizen from France) who helped to organize Maquis resistance against the Nazis. One thing I didn't know was a few days prior to the famous Oradour sur Glane massacre, the SS hung 99 people in a nearby town. I knew such casual brutality happened in the East but I didn't it was also in France.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 01:15 PM (L/fGl)

347 Black women get one democrat primary vote for each 100 pounds. That's 3-4 votes for each black woman.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at November 25, 2025 01:15 PM (xvV+O)

348 And don't get me started on the several times the movie stops in its tracks for a pointless scene involving eating pussy. Wtf?
Posted by: Elric The Blade

What movie is this?!

Posted by: Alf at November 25, 2025 01:15 PM (rGPrJ)

349 (Warning: do NOT do this. Now I want to search for turkey fryer fails.)
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The "Porch Pirate fails" with the exploding packaging are good fun for a minute or two as well.

Posted by: Crusader at November 25, 2025 01:15 PM (TN0g+)

350 320 Black women make up, what, 4% of the population?"

99.7 percent, according to current day advertising.
Posted by: man

With white, soy, cucked ambiguous "life partners" and multiracial children!!!

Posted by: Ad Execs at November 25, 2025 01:15 PM (JCZqz)

351 DAANJA ZONE
Posted by: TV's Archer at November 25, 2025 01:14 PM (3uBP9)

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Lana. Lana. LAAANAAAAA!

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 01:15 PM (DRSnL)

352 Pandas were once the greatest of all bears. The Xiongmao Zhanshi: The legendary panda warrior caste, resplendent in their bamboo armor and shields.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 01:12 PM (iFTx/)

But then one day they discovered that, while lacking nutrients, bamboo possessed a piquant flavor unobtainable elsewhere. Their decline as a species followed.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 01:15 PM (ExV1e)

353 “The states losing taxpayers most frequently are California, New York, and Illinois. California loses a taxpayer every 1 minute and 44 seconds.”

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 01:15 PM (RHGPo)

354 Cornish game hens"

So, small chickens. Bred from a fighting cock, IIRC...

Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 01:15 PM (XuXeR)

355 *shifty eyes*
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 25, 2025 01:14 PM (22p5n)

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LOL

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 01:15 PM (DRSnL)

356 Hey Jordan!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 25, 2025 01:15 PM (22p5n)

357 I'm responsible for mashed potatoes but I can't find my electric mixer.
Posted by: wth at November 25, 2025 01:14 PM (v0R5T)

Use a pastry cutter. You get better texture that way.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 01:15 PM (rbvCR)

358 345 I guess I'll take stick for this but I don't even like turkey.
Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 01:14 PM (E0p3T)

Yeah.. It just gets in the way of the stuffing and mashed potatoes and gravy

Posted by: It's me donna at November 25, 2025 01:16 PM (VE6XX)

359 353 “The states losing taxpayers most frequently are California, New York, and Illinois. California loses a taxpayer every 1 minute and 44 seconds.”

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 01:15 PM (RHGPo)

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Democrats fleeing California because of Newsom will probably not vote for Newsom in a primary.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:16 PM (GBKbO)

360 Kamala's name recognition and her black support is going to make the 2028 Democrat primary shockingly boring.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:12 PM (GBKbO)

Why isn't the market bearing this out if it's so obvious?

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 01:13 PM (E0p3T)

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Because the markets are bad predictors?

Because they're small markets driven by white progressives who think Shapiro, who has 1% black support, has a better shot than Kamala?

Because the markets are...stupid and reactive?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:14 PM (GBKbO)
____

The Blade mocks and laughs at attempts to predict what will happen in the far-off future of 2028!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 01:16 PM (iFTx/)

361 Hmm if measles is all because of RFKjr why is commie Canada also having outbreaks?

Posted by: steevy at November 25, 2025 01:16 PM (YwEeS)

362
*shifty eyes*
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 25, 2025 01:14 PM (22p5n)


LMFAO


*hugs*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 01:16 PM (Zz0t1)

363 I'm not giving up on Argylle, TJM! There's a lot of charm, it's a great cast, and it was definitely made for women like me. It's clearly silly fun so I'm enjoying the ride...even though I am editing the script as I go, lol, and deciding how I would tighten up each scene.

Posted by: LizLem at November 25, 2025 01:16 PM (gWBY1)

364 Hey SMH!

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 25, 2025 01:16 PM (DRSnL)

365 Anyone old enough to remember Democrats praising Mark Milley for his mutiny at the end of the first Trump administration in which he surreptitiously made contact with China and informed the Chinese that he would disobey the duly elected President's orders? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Posted by: Alec Leamas at November 25, 2025 01:10 PM (ssz2a)

I'm old enough.

And don't forget - he also bragged that he planned to inform the PLA if Trump ordered military action against China. As in, he would tell the enemy to prepare for an assault by troops already under away. As in, he'd sacrifice his own men for the good of the Chinese.

He should be in a prison.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 01:16 PM (BI5O2)

366 The warnings about the illegal military orders were in reference to FUTURE orders. No t much different to the lectures given furring basic.
Probably most morons did not serve and are unaware of those instructions that are given to all.

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at November 25, 2025 01:16 PM (KLQUC)

367 Nobody in my family, except me, likes turkey. So there's zero bird drama here.

Zero.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2025 01:16 PM (NwnyJ)

368 Funny how the thought of feed me has made these "patriots" more circumspect.

Posted by: Tree of Liberty at November 25, 2025 01:16 PM (wBaIH)

369
Yes, what they said was not, technically, illegal.
But they also knew exactly how it would be heard.

Nudge nudge
Wink wink

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 25, 2025 01:17 PM (pkeXY)

370 lol Sponge, couldn't resist.

Still laughing here.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 25, 2025 01:17 PM (22p5n)

371 360 The Blade mocks and laughs at attempts to predict what will happen in the far-off future of 2028!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 01:16 PM (iFTx/)

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You'd be surprised at how predictive early Democrat primary polls have been over the past few cycles.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:17 PM (GBKbO)

372
Kelly and Slotkin would LOVE to face a hearing over their remarks.

Nothing the left loves more than playing victim, a lesson they should have taken heed of before declaring lawfare on Trump.

Posted by: Auspex at November 25, 2025 01:17 PM (Y8DZL)

373 Kamala's name recognition and her black support is going to make the 2028 Democrat primary shockingly boring.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

No way. She sucked in her previous primaries because she's a terrible candidate. When the Left has other options, they won't be forced to pretend to like Kamala and vote for her.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 25, 2025 01:17 PM (JCZqz)

374 So will every thread become a food thread now?

Posted by: Just got here at November 25, 2025 01:17 PM (wq6Zu)

375 325 Members of Congress are openly calling for a military coup . If they get away with this then the president is no longer commander in chief.
Posted by: Matthew Proctor at November 25, 2025 01:11 PM (OdsgZ)

When you're talking about Law, language is important. No, they are NOT openly calling for a military coup - that sounds like "Hello Joint Chiefs, I want you to conduct a Military Coup at 9 AM tomorrow morning, and I will support you completely."

What they are doing is hinting in a wink wink, nudge nudge roundabout way that they might not mind if such a thing would happen. Which of course is reprehensible, but that's a political matter to be handled by political means, not a criminal matter.
I think the best way to address it would be for the President to do a prime time address to the nation from the Oval Office, stating what they had done, that they were doing it to support the cartels, and explaining what harm they were trying to accomplish by saying such a thing.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 01:17 PM (uWKK8)

376 Because the markets are bad predictors?

Because they're small markets driven by white progressives who think Shapiro, who has 1% black support, has a better shot than Kamala?

Because the markets are...stupid and reactive?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:14 PM (GBKbO)

They're reactive to everything but all the polling?

I'm not convinced. I understand handicapping, I also generally have a good nose for this stuff. I will continue to posit that she is not anywhere near the slam dunk you say she is.

I have hedged in the sense that I believe the powers that be want her in badly, but they will not put her up if the outcome is unknown. They didn't last time. Their outcome missed by half an inch and ruined their plan.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 01:18 PM (E0p3T)

377 210 From what I’ve read it doesn’t cover this garbage. In fact they were thinking about a prosecution using 18 USC 2388
Posted by: Marcus T at November 25, 2025 12:37 PM (3arSl)

The US isn't in a declared war.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 12:51 PM (ExV1e)

The US is in a declared War on Terror for the past 20+ years...

Posted by: Inogame at November 25, 2025 01:18 PM (53oGX)

378 Deep frying turkey should not be the equivalent of firing a fougasse.

Unless you really want to make it the equivalent of firing a fougasse

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 01:18 PM (rbvCR)

379 373 Kamala's name recognition and her black support is going to make the 2028 Democrat primary shockingly boring.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

No way. She sucked in her previous primaries because she's a terrible candidate. When the Left has other options, they won't be forced to pretend to like Kamala and vote for her.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 25, 2025 01:17 PM (JCZqz)

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Is this a comment about Biden's hilariously bad past in presidential primaries before 2020?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:18 PM (GBKbO)

380 I'm responsible for mashed potatoes but I can't find my electric mixer.
Posted by: wth at November 25, 2025 01:14 PM (v0R5T)

One of these will fix your potatoes:

https://tinyurl.com/ywcs4fhj

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 01:18 PM (npFr7)

381 The US isn't in a declared war.

When did the War on Terror officially end?

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 25, 2025 01:18 PM (Da7Vv)

382 Democrats fleeing California because of Newsom will probably not vote for Newsom in a primary.
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Is this the scene where we all hear your words, stand solemly for a few seconds, and then all simultaneously erupt into warm-hearted guffaws?

Posted by: Crusader at November 25, 2025 01:18 PM (TN0g+)

383 She sucked in her previous primaries"

/Willie?

Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 01:18 PM (XuXeR)

384 The movie is also a rip-off of From Dusk Till Dawn.
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Sinners is just another vampire movie.

I rate it below Dracula 2000. Because that one at least had an interesting plot point.

Sinners abandoned the only interesting plot point for the DEI; that is, the Indians hunting the vampires.

That would have been a cool movie for that time period.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 01:18 PM (T3zUV)

385 Black women make up, what, 4% of the population?

By weight?

Posted by: t-bird at November 25, 2025 01:18 PM (ittVa)

386 By volume.

Posted by: Just the punchline at November 25, 2025 01:19 PM (wq6Zu)

387 Pandas were once the greatest of all bears. The Xiongmao Zhanshi: The legendary panda warrior caste, resplendent in their bamboo armor and shields.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 01:12 PM (iFTx/)

But then one day they discovered that, while lacking nutrients, bamboo possessed a piquant flavor unobtainable elsewhere. Their decline as a species followed.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 01:15 PM (ExV1e)
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In real life, yes. In my book -- where I got my comment above from -- the Zhanshi fought a cataclysmic war against the last remaining dinosaurs, called draagyyns. They won the war, but paid the ultimate price: all the strong bears were killed in the war. The only pandas left were the runts, too weak to fight. Pandas of today are their descendants.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 01:19 PM (iFTx/)

388 By weight?"

And volume.

Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 01:19 PM (XuXeR)

389 The US isn't in a declared war.

When did the War on Terror officially end?
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The problem with the "War on Terror" is that its really difficult to locate Terror on a map or globe.

Posted by: Crusader at November 25, 2025 01:19 PM (TN0g+)

390 @nypost
·
45m
World’s Strongest Woman winner stripped of title after organizers discovered she was born a man https://trib.al/om0VBEV

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 01:19 PM (AOsQT)

391 Darn it...

Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 01:20 PM (XuXeR)

392 lol Sponge, couldn't resist.

Still laughing here.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 25, 2025 01:17 PM (22p5n)


The Ex-Ex nametag always makes me laugh. I had some friends that divorced and remarried each other. We actually got the preacher to introduce them as Mr. and Mrs. Jones-Jones.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 01:20 PM (Zz0t1)

393 You have to really wonder about our space program. I mean somebody actual said, yes that’s the guy I want for this mission. The one resembling Spock, who looks like he’s the spawn of that kid from Deliverance and Gollum.

And BTW, I have my doubts as to whether Martha Raddatz is actually alive.

Posted by: Vengeance at November 25, 2025 01:20 PM (0RGA5)

394 "They are going to propel Kelly to top of the list for next president. He is the first democrat to hold his senate seat in Arizona since 1962. And he beat a republican incumbent to win it. Thats exactly what the democrats need."

LOL

Mark Kelly has less charisma than Kamala. No AWFLs or Julias dream of him as their lover. He has no shot at the Dem nomination. VP maybe, depending on the POTUS candidate and Dems needing to win AZ.

Posted by: Gref at November 25, 2025 01:20 PM (5rh/l)

395 376 They're reactive to everything but all the polling?

I'm not convinced. I understand handicapping, I also generally have a good nose for this stuff. I will continue to posit that she is not anywhere near the slam dunk you say she is.

I have hedged in the sense that I believe the powers that be want her in badly, but they will not put her up if the outcome is unknown. They didn't last time. Their outcome missed by half an inch and ruined their plan.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 01:18 PM (E0p3T)

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The powers that be obviously don't want her. They're just smart enough to realize that they can't make her go away, so they don't turn on her in the open.

And yes, markets outright ignoring every single poll showing her as a front runner, that she's behind farking Shapiro, is proof that they are not reflective of the Democrat primary electorate as a whole.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:20 PM (GBKbO)

396 Jasmine Crockett has a better chance of being the Dem's 2028 candidate than Kamala does.

Just imagine Jasmine on a debate stage vs Kamala. That'll be like Godzilla vs. mumblin' Bambi.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 01:21 PM (uWKK8)

397
I would think dunking a frozen bird into a cauldron of hot oil would lead to an undesirable surprise, because science
Posted by: Don Black
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And fill the fryer up with oil to the brim, so you will get the whole bird submerged? And fry it on top of a wood deck?
(Warning: do NOT do this. Now I want to search for turkey fryer fails.)
Posted by: LizLem

An annual hi-lite after T-Day for the Bif family is to bet on the number locally reported in the news.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 25, 2025 01:21 PM (QVmho)

398 I'm responsible for the stuffing. I make it with hot Italian sausage, water chestnuts, fresh rosemary, in addition to Mrs. Cubbison's & sourdough bread, celery, garlic, and onions.

I know it is good because all the kids look forward to it.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at November 25, 2025 01:21 PM (xvV+O)

399 Democrats declared Biden the nominee in the summer of 2019 during the impeachment, before a single vote was cast. I pointed out how odd it was at the time. Then he magically became the nominee.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 01:21 PM (E0p3T)

400 326 Liberal female judge overturns conviction of Somali man found guilty of stealing $7.2M from Medicaid
Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 01:06 PM (AOsQT)

https://tinyurl.com/mzbu56us - more info
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 01:11 PM (ExV1e)

Wow... Judge just flat over ruled the jury... saying the other inferences, other then fraud, were not taken into account by the prosecution...

Uh.... JudgyPoo? uh, you know that is the defenses job to bring that kind of thing up during the trial, and then the Juries job to decide?

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 01:21 PM (mP0Kj)

401 Men make the best women.

Posted by: Jamie Farr at November 25, 2025 01:21 PM (wq6Zu)

402 15 So me and Brit Lass have covid for the second time. Although really it's the third since we suspect we had it in November of 2019. This one has been a GI adventure for me. Awful.
Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 12:15 PM (E0p3T)

You actually got tested? WTH would you bother to do that?

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at November 25, 2025 01:21 PM (r+xel)

403 So will every thread become a food thread now?
Posted by: Just got here
......

Until Thursday afternoon. Then it will be Tums and best places to nap.

Posted by: wth at November 25, 2025 01:22 PM (v0R5T)

404 And yes, markets outright ignoring every single poll showing her as a front runner, that she's behind farking Shapiro, is proof that they are not reflective of the Democrat primary electorate as a whole.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:20 PM (GBKbO)

They are driven by people who are trying to make money. Her ticket shouldn't still be this cheap.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 01:22 PM (E0p3T)

405 The movie is also a rip-off of From Dusk Till Dawn.
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Sinners is just another vampire movie.

I rate it below Dracula 2000. Because that one at least had an interesting plot point.

Sinners abandoned the only interesting plot point for the DEI; that is, the Indians hunting the vampires.

That would have been a cool movie for that time period.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 01:18 PM (T3zUV)
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That, and the idea that the vamps were a hive mind. Kinda clever, but they did nothing with it. Instead, the movie spends an hour developing the twins' idiotic plan to spend a lot of money to open a nightclub ... in a dirt-poor community where most people don't even have real money.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 01:23 PM (iFTx/)

406 An annual hi-lite after T-Day for the Bif family is to bet on the number locally reported in the news.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 25, 2025 01:21 PM (QVmho)


Last Thanksgiving, step-brother-in-law showed a text pic of a doctor friend of his with his fryer setup in the kitchen. It was OK tho. He had cardboard boxes all over the floor under the fryer to catch any oil overboil..........

I told him he'd be reading about his friend in the paper tomorrow.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 01:23 PM (Zz0t1)

407 >>> I'm responsible for mashed potatoes but I can't find my electric mixer.
Posted by: wth at November 25, 2025 01:14 PM (v0R5T)

I always do my mashed potatoes in the instant pot and they are so easy. It's the one main dish I don't
Have to sweat over.

However... there are VERY strong opinions on stuffing in my house. So to please everyone we will be having two kinds of stuffing. Sigh. And I am hoping To make a cheesecake. First time trying it in the instant pot! (Though not at the same time as the mashed potatoes!)

Posted by: LizLem at November 25, 2025 01:23 PM (gWBY1)

408 The congressional Democrats were also not on the same page about whether the U.S. military was currently engaging in illegal activities, with some Democrats admitting that they were not sure if any current U.S. military actions were illegal, while others have previously said or are currently saying that U.S. troop deployments to American cities and U.S. strikes against Venezuelan drug-running boats are illegal.

... so these law makers aren't sure what is illegal, but military 'grunts' are supposed to have the legal judgement on legality ?

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 01:23 PM (RHGPo)

409 So will every thread become a food thread now?

Boobs are food too!

Posted by: Mewling Newborn at November 25, 2025 01:23 PM (w9Wax)

410 Nood. GOP.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 01:23 PM (ExV1e)

411 nood


midterms

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 01:23 PM (3uBP9)

412 399 Democrats declared Biden the nominee in the summer of 2019 during the impeachment, before a single vote was cast. I pointed out how odd it was at the time. Then he magically became the nominee.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 01:21 PM (E0p3T)

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You know this is bullshit.

They pushed every single name possible before they coalesced behind Biden. They could have cleared the deck in 2020 like they had with Hillary in 2016, and given Biden an easy victory instead of the apparatus backing, in turn, Kamala then Beto then Warren then Buttigieg before finally resigning and backing Biden.

What they did was use anything to attack Trump. "Biden could be the nominee, and Trump is attacking a potential rival."

The entire 2020 primary belies the idea that Biden was chosen from the beginning.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:23 PM (GBKbO)

413 Is this a movie thread now?

Fine.

"SISU: The Road to Vengeance" - a fun, whip-smart roller coaster ride of an action movie.
You don't need to see the first one to enjoy it.
BONUS: This time around he kills tons of Commies/

"Keeper" - I had high hope for this as I like what Osgood Perkins has been doing lately. And higher hopes 45-50 minutes in, buuuuuuut then it failed on the expolanation and lost me, a drag to the end.


TV Sh0ow:

"Last Samarai Standing" - very fun version of Squid Game (kinda) set in old Japan. Great action, great hero, well-done bad guys. It's streaming on Netflix. Check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 25, 2025 01:24 PM (iJfKG)

414 Jasmine Crockett has a better chance of being the Dem's 2028 candidate than Kamala does.

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Scott Jennings says Jazzy is the face of today's Democrat Party.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 01:24 PM (L/fGl)

415 There is an ethnic piece to this that most in the West don't want to acknowledge.
Posted by: Romeo13

I see nothink!
-Sgt Schultz if he were Spanish and mindful of Catalan and Basque separatists

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 25, 2025 01:24 PM (Dv3i1)

416 404 They are driven by people who are trying to make money. Her ticket shouldn't still be this cheap.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 01:22 PM (E0p3T)

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Again, they're stupid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:24 PM (GBKbO)

417 The Ex-Ex nametag always makes me laugh. I had some friends that divorced and remarried each other. We actually got the preacher to introduce them as Mr. and Mrs. Jones-Jones.
Posted by: Sponge
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lol
Sometimes, God has to smack us upside the head and make us come to our senses when it comes to who He wants us to be with.
At least, that was the case with us.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 25, 2025 01:24 PM (22p5n)

418 You actually got tested? WTH would you bother to do that?
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at November 25, 2025 01:21 PM (r+xel

I didn't get tested, I used a test that I was given. I like to know what chinese bullshit is inside me, mostly due to my Crohns.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 01:24 PM (E0p3T)

419
That's a war of law enforcement against civilians and the Bill of Rights. Different kind of war. Arguably worse.
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Cops ARE civilians.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 25, 2025 01:25 PM (6KcYW)

420 I'm responsible for mashed potatoes but I can't find my electric mixer.
Posted by: wth at November 25, 2025 01:14 PM (v0R5T)

One of these will fix your potatoes:

https://tinyurl.com/ywcs4fhj
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
......

Blocked by my organization.
Why does my employer not want me to have nice potatoes?

Posted by: wth at November 25, 2025 01:25 PM (v0R5T)

421 Again, they're stupid.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:24 PM (GBKbO)

That kind of thinking is *usually* a good way to lose money.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 01:25 PM (E0p3T)

422 These seditious politicians and the 35% of America that supports them need to have their citizenship stripped and be forcibly deported. If no country will accept them, them creat an enclave by building a huge wall around the Burning Man site in Black Rock Desert, Nevada, where they can create their own anarchist utopia.*

* Popcorn will be served on the glass-bottom tourist helicopter flyovers.

Posted by: zombie at November 25, 2025 01:25 PM (oraVG)

423 The problem with the "War on Terror" is that its really difficult to locate Terror on a map or globe.

Please explain how that matters in 18 USC 2388.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 25, 2025 01:25 PM (Da7Vv)

424 “It seems that WaPo thought the most natural way to elicit sympathy from their overwhelmingly liberal, overwhelmingly affluent and overwhelmingly white readership was to note that Trump’s illegal alien crackdown would directly impact the quality of service at country clubs.”

.. and who will wipe their arses ?

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 01:26 PM (RHGPo)

425 /sock

Posted by: Oddbob at November 25, 2025 01:26 PM (3nLb4)

426 421 Again, they're stupid.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:24 PM (GBKbO)

That kind of thinking is *usually* a good way to lose money.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 01:25 PM (E0p3T)

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Their assumption is that she just doesn't run.

Once she announces, she'll shoot up to 50%, at least.

The assumption is really bad.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:26 PM (GBKbO)

427 (a) Whoever, when the United States is at war, willfully makes or conveys false reports or false statements with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the military or naval forces of the United States or to promote the success of its enemies; or

Whoever, when the United States is at war, willfully causes or attempts to cause insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty, in the military or naval forces of the United States, or willfully obstructs the recruiting or enlistment service of the United States, to the injury of the service or the United States, or attempts to do so—

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
(b) If two or more persons conspire to violate subsection (a) of this section and one or more such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each of the parties to such conspiracy shall be punished as provided in said subsection (a).

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 01:27 PM (RHGPo)

428 Blocked by my organization.
Why does my employer not want me to have nice potatoes?
Posted by: wth at November 25, 2025 01:25 PM (v0R5T)

Willowed, but it was a joke. Pic of a German "potato masher" hand grenade.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 01:27 PM (npFr7)

429 World’s Strongest Woman winner stripped of title after organizers discovered she was born a man

May I point out that the name of the competition is the "Official Strongman Games World Championship"?

Posted by: 'Jammie' Booker at November 25, 2025 01:28 PM (ittVa)

430 94 Trump and Republicans need to pivot to the economy. These palace intrigues just look like elites playing power games.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 25, 2025 12:29 PM (6NInb)

You do know that there is a teensy bit more to governance than that, right?

Either you have to multitask or you are fucked,

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 25, 2025 01:28 PM (6KcYW)

431 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:26 PM (GBKbO)

I hope we're both around to see the outcome and discuss it.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 01:28 PM (E0p3T)

432
The US is in a declared War on Terror for the past 20+ years...

But Who is Terror?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 25, 2025 01:31 PM (pkeXY)

433 431 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:26 PM (GBKbO)

I hope we're both around to see the outcome and discuss it.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 01:28 PM (E0p3T)

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Only if you like and subscribe!!!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:32 PM (GBKbO)

434 427 (a) Whoever, when the United States is at war, willfully makes or conveys false reports....
Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 01:27 PM (RHGPo)

And as far as Courts are concerned, the US has not legally been At War since 1945.

Yes, that definition of "War" is clearly obsolete, but that doesn't change the law - only Congress can do that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 01:33 PM (uWKK8)

435
Scott Jennings says Jazzy is the face of today's Democrat Party.

But who is the face of tomorrow's Democratic Party?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 25, 2025 01:34 PM (pkeXY)

436 The US is in a declared War on Terror for the past 20+ years...

But Who is Terror?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 25, 2025 01:31 PM (pkeXY)

It's a nonsense claim for several reasons, the most obvious is
Article I, Section 8, Clause 11:

[The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; . . .

Now I'll accept that an AUMF can substitute for a declaration for limited purposes, but what AUMF passed by Congress are we operating under currently?

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 01:37 PM (uWKK8)

437 435
Scott Jennings says Jazzy is the face of today's Democrat Party.

But who is the face of tomorrow's Democratic Party?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 25, 2025 01:34 PM (pkeXY)

That goat headed demon that the satanists try to trot out every so often.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 01:38 PM (uWKK8)

438 The entire 2020 primary belies the idea that Biden was chosen from the beginning.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:23 PM (GBKbO)

I stick by my story: Jarrett's faction wanted Harris, but she was pure poison, and then Gabbard knocked her out for good.

So they quickly cleared the field for their decrepit crony Biden, and just tacked her on, figuring they'd replace him shortly.

But she was a dumb drunk, and he was aggressively senile, and all his advisers were numbskulls, and then a Leftist shot Trump in the head, but he survived, and the whole scam fell to pieces.

It's like a Mel Brooks comedy if he were Satan.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 01:40 PM (BI5O2)

439 438 I stick by my story: Jarrett's faction wanted Harris, but she was pure poison, and then Gabbard knocked her out for good.

So they quickly cleared the field for their decrepit crony Biden, and just tacked her on, figuring they'd replace him shortly.

But she was a dumb drunk, and he was aggressively senile, and all his advisers were numbskulls, and then a Leftist shot Trump in the head, but he survived, and the whole scam fell to pieces.

It's like a Mel Brooks comedy if he were Satan.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 01:40 PM (BI5O2)

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The time from Gabbard knocking out Kamala to Super Tuesday was something like 8 months.

There was no quickly about it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 25, 2025 01:47 PM (GBKbO)

440 The only ones who would vote for you would be the ones that got paid very well by the middle kingdom.

Wonder how much of dei and other woke lies are cultivated at home?

Nightmare time for toddlers.

Posted by: thug dolphin at November 25, 2025 02:02 PM (EyfuW)

441 @TomServo - back in the 1950's, with respect to Korea, the courts held that it was a war - basically, if it quacks like a duck, it's a duck. A declaration is evidence that a war exists, but the absence of a declaration doesn't mean a war doesn't exist.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at November 25, 2025 02:27 PM (kF/7r)

442 How would someone sell a conspiracy theory to Candace Owens? I'm something involving a Nigerian billionaire.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at November 25, 2025 02:41 PM (kTd/k)

443 These fucking people are fucking theater kids, and clearly don't understand what most of the people in the service feel. I'm not a special case, but I'm not the norm, but when I was in The Marine Corps, I don't know if I ever mentioned, I didn't join so I could be a hard ass, I could have joined a gang, or stayed an athlete and beaten up the college pussy's when I was attending for AAE. I didn't join to measure my dick, I know how big it is and it's not measured in my contract or in the price of my car, I joined because I had a good life.

That's it. I had a good life, and others deserved a chance to have one. My family, the way I was raised the freedom including all of my fuckups were because they and I were free, and I wanted to guarantee that.

I HATE violence and I hate conflict but the best way to oppose it is to shut it down before it begins.

I don't wag my salad board in the comments, I even reference my service sarcastically. These people think the are Appostles of righteousness.

they aren't even arguable, let alone Right or Righteous. Sit your priveledged asses down. Especially You Kelly.

Posted by: wickedpinto at November 25, 2025 05:30 PM (j0s2W)

444 Six Democrats/Traitors should apologies for it all

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at November 25, 2025 06:38 PM (wGqjj)

One Old Soldier's Perspective [Diogenes]

So I take a bit of vacation for the Holiday and some congressional idiots shoot their mouths off in a video thinking they could replicate the BS that came from the “51 Intelligence Officers” memo. Bad move. I have listened to the video a couple of times and in typical political obfuscation, they tried to hide their message by stating what is obvious: “You members of the military do not have to obey illegal orders.” Well Duh! Every person who enlists in the military gets a class on the legality of orders in the first week, usually right after getting an arm full of shots. This is common knowledge among those who are serving and among those who have served. I am a veteran of three wars, two hot and one cold and in EVERY instance where I was taking my troops into harm's way, I made a point of verifying with my chain of command that this was a legitimate operation, and I passed that information to my soldiers. There was never any doubt in my chain of command.

But the Hill-dwellers video misses the mark in a horrible and vicious way. What it apparently seeks to do is create doubt and distrust among the members of the military towards both their Commander-in-Chief and against the officers appointed over them. Their comments were disloyal to America, the military, and dishonorable to the oaths they have supposedly taken to sit in the jobs they hold now.They have deliberately undermined the good order and discipline in the armed forces, all for political expediency.

But is what they said illegal?

I am no lawyer and already social and mainstream media are flooded with accusations and counter-accusations. There will be no surprise to the Horde what each side is thinking. I’ll leave it to the experts to decide just how serious this is, but where this crossed the line for me was including a direct reference to the current Administration. That, in my opinion, might not reach the level of sedition, but it certainly comes close to incitement of mutiny. MUTINY: As written in the UCMJ, “ Acting in concert with others, a service member refuses to obey orders…” But these congress-criters are not necessarily subject to UCMJ, but possibly can be prosecuted under “seditious libel” which targets anti-government speech. But the courts, probably rightly so vis-a-vis the 1st Amendment, are tough on this one. But the harm it has done now is to set up any Soldier, Sailor, Marine or Airman with a high speed trip to prison thinking they can do what their Senator or Representative has told them to do.

As mentioned, it will be up to others to decide what is going to happen…probably not much…but I’d give a lot to be on the jury for even one of these assho…errr…distinguished members of the Congress. 20 years in a SuperMax would be the minimum.

[Diogenes is a twenty year Army veteran and Military Intelligence Officer with an additional 20 years working in the Intelligence Community as a contractor and consultant. And he yells at kids to keep off his yard.]

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 11:00 AM (Zz0t1)

2 Even with the panic factor.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 11:00 AM (Zz0t1)

3 Noodlight lit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 11:01 AM (Zz0t1)

4 I'll just enjoy the space.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 11:01 AM (Zz0t1)

5 Fresh thread smell.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 11:01 AM (Zz0t1)

6
ESPONJA!1!!!!11

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 25, 2025 11:01 AM (tljrc)

7 Well...

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 25, 2025 11:01 AM (d4UP6)

8 No mention if he found his coffee, tho.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 11:02 AM (Zz0t1)

9
1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 11:00 AM

Sponge (actual) representin'!

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 25, 2025 11:03 AM (tljrc)

10 No blade?

Posted by: Darth Randall at November 25, 2025 11:03 AM (YtGvr)

11
Sponge (actual) representin'!
Posted by: AltonJackson at November 25, 2025 11:03 AM (tljrc)


Sun shines on a dog's ass on occasion.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 11:04 AM (Zz0t1)

12 Pete Hegseth
@PeteHegseth
So “Captain” Kelly, not only did your sedition video intentionally undercut good order & discipline…but you can’t even display your uniform correctly.
Your medals are out of order & rows reversed. When/if you are recalled to active duty, it’ll start with a uniform inspection.

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Gosh, Mark, you've been Hegsethed!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 11:04 AM (L/fGl)

13 There was a plan behind the initial video step. Some parts of it have been stopped. Other parts will adjust tactics and then be revealed. Things we haven't seen unfold. Commies don't do anything without a plan.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 11:05 AM (3uBP9)

14 @PeteHegseth
So “Captain” Kelly, not only did your sedition video intentionally undercut good order & discipline…but you can’t even display your uniform correctly.
Your medals are out of order & rows reversed. When/if you are recalled to active duty, it’ll start with a uniform inspection.


Dime store Army Captain.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 11:05 AM (Zz0t1)

15 As mentioned, it will be up to others to decide what is going to happen…probably not much…but I’d give a lot to be on the jury for even one of these assho…errr…distinguished members of the Congress. 20 years in a SuperMax would be the minimum.

As I said on the Morning Report, if any of these nickelfuckers were going to be arrested, it would have happened by now. Trump and Hegseth are both chest-puffing now, but I am certain they won't pull the pin and nail these bastards to the wall.

Yes, it's a pain being a continual Debbie Downer, but at least I never have to worry about having my hopes crushed.

Posted by: John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt at November 25, 2025 11:06 AM (ufSfZ)

16
Nothing will happen to the civilians for sure. As for the retired military guy, nothing will happen.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2025 11:06 AM (RfDQK)

17
And good morning!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2025 11:06 AM (RfDQK)

18 Off, sing-song sock!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 25, 2025 11:06 AM (ufSfZ)

19 Nothing will happen to the civilians for sure. As for the retired military guy, nothing will happen.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2025 11:06 AM (RfDQK)



You forgot to say "in before the nothing will happen guy."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 11:07 AM (Zz0t1)

20 I doubt they'll be convicted of anything. Maybe Uncle Fester from Arizona well get dinged a bit but even that seems a stretch.

But I see this morning the FBI is setting up interviews with all 6 of them. Stop this next CIA op in the crib.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2025 11:07 AM (viF8m)

21 According to the FNM the following are "illegal" things for the military to do:

1) Kill Jihadis
2) Kill Narco Terrorists
3) Defend our border

However things like forcing soldiers to wear high heels or hell take a poison shot are a-ok.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 11:07 AM (sKqQm)

22 Diogenes, thank you for this.

Posted by: Wenda at November 25, 2025 11:07 AM (/WpRi)

23 Thank you for your service, and your perspective on this subject, Diogenes.

Posted by: Moderate Salami, lurking at November 25, 2025 11:08 AM (jQTUu)

24 Kelly is looking more and more like the alien parasite he encountered at his time at NASA

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 11:08 AM (sKqQm)

25 Hi, Wenda! Good to see you!

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 11:09 AM (77rzZ)

26 Color Revolution, step 4.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2025 11:09 AM (xC2Ng)

27 As I said on the Morning Report, if any of these nickelfuckers were going to be arrested, it would have happened by now. Trump and Hegseth are both chest-puffing now, but I am certain they won't pull the pin and nail these bastards to the wall.

Yes, it's a pain being a continual Debbie Downer, but at least I never have to worry about having my hopes crushed.
Posted by: John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt at November 25, 2025 11:06 AM (ufSfZ)

#TwoWeeks

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 11:09 AM (HW6XE)

28 no monkey

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 25, 2025 11:10 AM (N1DT3)

29 Trump could fling some poon and say that commioned officers may be recalled and subject UCMJ at any time... specifically at o'dark thirty by a squad of MPs armed with weapons o war.

Thenn have some hummers park near the homed of the peoplre who were flapping their gums.

Leave... come back... leave... fly a drone around their homes... come back... knock on their doors at 3:30am... confirn that they live there... leave... be seen at daybreak parked on the street...

All perfectly legal

Posted by: Operator Error at November 25, 2025 11:11 AM (rGPrJ)

30 However things like forcing soldiers to wear high heels or hell take a poison shot are a-ok.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 25, 2025 11:07 AM (sKqQm)
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I think the enlisted Rainbow Brigade queers who happily wore high heels in service did so voluntarily without an ounce of coercion.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2025 11:11 AM (xC2Ng)

31 This sedition is designed to work hand in hand with the Democrats warning of political retribution and going after everyone who followed Trump's orders when they get in charge.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 25, 2025 11:12 AM (N1DT3)

32 Who would put the cuffs on Kelly if it were to happen? Civilian, military? Serious question.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 11:12 AM (PCK5/)

33 As a former NCO, thus enlisted, I still retain the thinking that nothing ever really happens to officers.

Sorry, but I truly do not think this Kelly character is going to face any real punishment (in this life anyway).

The fact that he's also a Dem also reinforces that belief.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 25, 2025 11:12 AM (22p5n)

34 "It' terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged"

GKC

Posted by: Oglebay at November 25, 2025 11:12 AM (2ap+5)

35 As I said on the Morning Report, if any of these nickelfuckers were going to be arrested, it would have happened by now.
Posted by: John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt at November 25, 2025 11:06 AM (ufSfZ)

Dude, it's only been a few days. We're talking about arresting members of Congress here. They've got to be absolutely sure that they've got something actionable on them.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 11:12 AM (77rzZ)

36 Dime store Army Captain.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 11:05 AM (Zz0t1)

Sadly, Navy, which makes him a bird colonel in the Army. And he was, apparently, an actual combat pilot once.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 11:13 AM (ExV1e)

37 (Comes in. Reads bedwetters’ comments and leaves shaking head in disgust)

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 25, 2025 11:14 AM (jbnUc)

38 31 This sedition is designed to work hand in hand with the Democrats warning of political retribution and going after everyone who followed Trump's orders when they get in charge.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 25, 2025 11:12 AM (N1DT3)

THIS is why THAT simply cannot be allowed. I suppose it sounds kind of extreme.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 11:14 AM (PCK5/)

39 Dude, it's only been a few days. We're talking about arresting members of Congress here. They've got to be absolutely sure that they've got something actionable on them.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 11:12 AM (77rzZ)
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And then hope that a judge doesn't dismiss the case because the handcuffs were on too tight.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2025 11:14 AM (xC2Ng)

40 Mark Kelly is almost as tall as my mom.

Posted by: Oglebay at November 25, 2025 11:15 AM (2ap+5)

41 I think the Admin has got it right - Trump was a bit too blustery with the death penalty talk (Just gave them talking points) but other than that a good respons.

Legally - the civilians do not appear to have violated any law, their 1st amendment defense is solid. Kelly, however, is subject to the UCMJ and he can probably be held to account.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 11:15 AM (uWKK8)

42 So Mark Kelly is a Wee Little Man?

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 11:15 AM (PCK5/)

43 Kelly should be recalled to active duty and prosecuted.

Posted by: CSMBigBird at November 25, 2025 11:15 AM (hyFic)

44 As a lawyer, I think what they said crossed the line. It's one thing to say "if you're a soldier, you don't have to obey illegal orders." Duh.

It's another thing to make a very public, splashy plea that "if you're a soldier, don't obey Donald Trump's illegal orders, and we're not specifying which orders are illegal because -- wink, wink --- Trump is Hitler and Adolph and KKK and the demons the KPop hunters are after." This would be illegal.

The video these loathsome toads made is much closer to the second (illegal) statement than the first.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 11:16 AM (iFTx/)

45
When/if you are recalled to active duty, it’ll start with a uniform inspection.




If only R Lee Ermey were still with us...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 25, 2025 11:16 AM (y9nCu)

46 As a former NCO, thus enlisted, I still retain the thinking that nothing ever really happens to officers.
Posted by: SMH

Sometimes it does. But it has to be something really egregious.

Even then, they can get away even with egregious stuff in the right circumstances. During the Civil War, there was a Union general who murdered another general in broad daylight, but he was let off with a very light punishment because the Union Army was short of experienced officers.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 11:16 AM (77rzZ)

47 We allow our politicos too much leeway with what they can say "as part of their functioning as members of Congress / government."

Guttersnipe Crotchrot libeled GOP members, but since she was on the House floor, nothing will happen. And she backtracked her comments with saying "a" in front of Epstein's name.

If the GOP had a backbone they'd push for (at a minimum) they be censored. A middle of the road punishment would be their removal from office. On the extreme end; hanged in a public square.

It would provide perspective for the rest of those shit heads if there was actual penalties for sedition.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2025 11:16 AM (NwnyJ)

48 Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2025 11:07 AM (viF8m)

CIA opp? Isn’t Radcliffe the head of the CIA? I doubt this comes from him, so who is behind this at the CIA if this is a CIA opp?

Posted by: Ann at November 25, 2025 11:17 AM (x1OYB)

49
Slotkin, Nessel, Whitmer and Benson: Michigan's angry Karen lesbian quartet.

Posted by: Auspex at November 25, 2025 11:17 AM (Y8DZL)

50 It is the typical passive-aggressive gaslighting and bull-baiting by the left that they live 24/7.

I was instructed that the assumption unless it was prima facie evident that an order was absolutely immoral was that orders are legal, and it was made plain that ignoring orders would never be pleasant.

My OSUT class like many in the late 80s and early 90s was also polled on whether there was any situation that they would fire on unarmed American citizens, we answered past 90% like most classes that the answer was no.

By 1997 my wife was not asked that at Ft Jackson, nor was my son back in 2017.

The answer given the composition of the force and the miracles worked by the educrats would probably alarm people were they asked.

Posted by: sven at November 25, 2025 11:17 AM (MUJd1)

51 When I see people like these Congressdemons saying these things, or some flag officer like Milley bragging about violating orders from the President, I feel like I'm watching a child about to stick a fork in a light socket.

I normally brush it off when some naïf says "oh, these Democrats better watch out when they shit all over this or that law or norm, because when the Republicans blah blah blah..." The politicians and the state will never do anything about anything.

But the military are not the politicians, or the civilians. It's one of the largest, best trained fighting forces in the world, and if you succesfully disrupt the civilian chain of command, you are necessarily going to leave it the military itself to sort out who's actually in charge of things, and virtually nobody will like the outcome of that ugly process.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 11:17 AM (BI5O2)

52 And he was, apparently, an actual combat pilot once.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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I've got combat pilot experience too

Posted by: Flyin' Green Dildo at November 25, 2025 11:18 AM (DDJSl)

53 *Ratcliffe

Posted by: Ann at November 25, 2025 11:18 AM (x1OYB)

54 >>This sedition is designed to work hand in hand with the Democrats warning of political retribution and going after everyone who followed Trump's orders when they get in charge.

I believe this was all part of another CIA op not an off the cuff act by a few "patriots". As much as I'd like to see real punishment I don't even know if what they said was technically illegal. I'm more interested is strangling this thing early and stopping these endless intel ops. This seems like a good shot across the bow for starters.

>>@FoxNews

>>🚨 BREAKING: FBI is scheduling interviews with 6 lawmakers who encouraged military members to refuse 'illegal orders,' @davidspunt and @JakeBGibsonreport

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2025 11:18 AM (viF8m)

55 The video these loathsome toads made is much closer to the second (illegal) statement than the first.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 11:16 AM (iFTx/)

It might be close, but you cannot jail someone for insinuation. Imagine if, under Obama, you had said that Soldiers should not obey any illegal orders to attack American Citizens. Should Obama have been able to send you to jail for saying that?

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 11:18 AM (uWKK8)

56 CIA opp? Isn’t Radcliffe the head of the CIA? I doubt this comes from him, so who is behind this at the CIA if this is a CIA opp?

Posted by: Ann at November 25, 2025 11:17 AM (x1OYB)
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The agencies were never gutted. Tons of underlings to choose from.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2025 11:19 AM (xC2Ng)

57 Earlier this morning I saw the term Seditious Six.
I wish I had thought of that.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2025 11:19 AM (y3bZw)

58 Make TREASON Executable Again!

chmod +x TREASON

Pour encourager les autres ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 25, 2025 11:19 AM (cjvQp)

59 "I’ll leave it to the experts to decide just how serious this is, but where this crossed the line for me was including a direct reference to the current Administration. That, in my opinion, might not reach the level of sedition, but it certainly comes close to incitement of mutiny."

👍 Aye.

Thank you.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at November 25, 2025 11:19 AM (NFX2v)

60 55
It might be close, but you cannot jail someone for insinuation. Imagine if, under Obama, you had said that Soldiers should not obey any illegal orders to attack American Citizens. Should Obama have been able to send you to jail for saying that?
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 11:18 AM (uWKK

So, nothing will happen, in summary?

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 11:19 AM (PCK5/)

61 What institution do you still trust in our government? This is a very hard lift.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2025 11:20 AM (Wg6v7)

62 no monkey
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 25, 2025 11:10 AM (N1DT3)

The monkey is in the SCIF. No cameras allowed.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at November 25, 2025 11:20 AM (Sq3iI)

63 But the harm it has done now is to set up any Soldier, Sailor, Marine or Airman with a high speed trip to prison thinking they can do what their Senator or Representative has told them to do.

They're no different than the Bin Ladens of the world who send others off to die, but live the high life in their own compound because they're important, don't you know.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2025 11:20 AM (Riz8t)

64 What institution do you still trust in our government? This is a very hard lift.
___

None.

Zip.

Nada.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 25, 2025 11:20 AM (22p5n)

65 Dude, it's only been a few days. We're talking about arresting members of Congress here. They've got to be absolutely sure that they've got something actionable on them.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 11:12 AM (77rzZ)

This is not a slap at you, Bulg, but - what 'something actionable' applied to Grandma Gertie who was arrested for taking selfies at the capitol on J6?

Charge the assholes with jaywalking, spitting on the ground or talking back to their mamas - I don't give a fuck! I am sick to death of 'process' and 'norms' and 'something actionable.' I want revenge, and I am utterly pissed off that it isn't happening.

Fuck. I wasn't going to drink today, but I need it.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 25, 2025 11:21 AM (ufSfZ)

66 As a fellow graduate of Kelly's alma mater, I have to say I'm a bit disappointed in the boy.

Posted by: Cosda at November 25, 2025 11:21 AM (LgGAL)

67 So, nothing will happen, in summary?
Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 11:19 AM (PCK5/)

Not only will nothing happen it’s even worse. By allowing it to happen it encourages them to double down. They have immunity to say anything.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 11:21 AM (HW6XE)

68 >>CIA opp? Isn’t Radcliffe the head of the CIA? I doubt this comes from him, so who is behind this at the CIA if this is a CIA opp?

I think it's a big mistake for people to keep assuming that entire agencies like the CIA or DOJ magically turned into patriotic MAGA places just because a new director was appointed.

Look at what happened to Trump in his first term with polticized intel agencies. It took decades for them to be infiltrated and it will take a long time to clean them up.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2025 11:21 AM (viF8m)

69 They're no different than the Bin Ladens of the world who send others off to die, but live the high life in their own compound because they're important, don't you know.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2025 11:20 AM (Riz8t)

SSDD.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 11:21 AM (ExV1e)

70 48 Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2025 11:07 AM (viF8m)

CIA opp? Isn’t Radcliffe the head of the CIA? I doubt this comes from him, so who is behind this at the CIA if this is a CIA opp?
Posted by: Ann at November 25, 2025 11:17 AM (x1OYB)

There's a huge number of prominent ex-CIA around DC that are still connected through Brennan, etc. They are now a political force of their own, and not accountable to Ratldcliffe at all.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 11:21 AM (uWKK8)

71 The video these loathsome toads made is much closer to the second (illegal) statement than the first.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 11:16 AM (iFTx/)

It might be close, but you cannot jail someone for insinuation. Imagine if, under Obama, you had said that Soldiers should not obey any illegal orders to attack American Citizens. Should Obama have been able to send you to jail for saying that?
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 11:18 AM (uWKK
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Me? No. But someone subject to UCMJ? Yes, probably. At least it would be close enough to bring a case. You know with 100% certainty that if a bunch of ex-military guys made the exact same video about Obama's drone strikes being illegal and shouldn't be obeyed, they'd be arrested in 24 hours. We should be equally aggressive.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 11:22 AM (iFTx/)

72 64 What institution do you still trust in our government? This is a very hard lift.
___

None.

Zip.

Nada.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 25, 2025 11:20 AM (22p5n)

I hate to agree with you on this, but I do. Everything has been compromised. Maybe it always has been, but it’s all so blatant now.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 11:22 AM (PCK5/)

73 As a former NCO, thus enlisted, I still retain the thinking that nothing ever really happens to officers.

Sorry, but I truly do not think this Kelly character is going to face any real punishment (in this life anyway).

The fact that he's also a Dem also reinforces that belief.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy


And if an Academy grad, he be really golden then.

Posted by: Operator Error at November 25, 2025 11:22 AM (rGPrJ)

74 65 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 25, 2025 11:21 AM (ufSfZ)

Correct the FIB and friends can use geofencing, and forensic accounting and six hops to make sure people they had to essentially invent "law" on the fly to prosecute get the full rectal exam encounter with DOJ....somehow they can't go after Antifa or the Seditious Six....

fuck that.

Posted by: sven at November 25, 2025 11:23 AM (MUJd1)

75 Fuck. I wasn't going to drink today, but I need it.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Sorry, man. Didn't mean to spin you up.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 11:23 AM (77rzZ)

76
Several years ago Kelly's brother spent a year on the space station.

Heard him speak at an event later where he said his stay would help cure cancer.

He and his twin don't just look like pricks.

Posted by: Auspex at November 25, 2025 11:23 AM (Y8DZL)

77 The damage is done. Every solider will in the back of his mind think “oh shit is what I’m doing illegal”? And that hesitation will get Americans killed. Which is the end goal for the left.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 11:23 AM (HW6XE)

78 BREAKING: FBI is scheduling interviews with 6 lawmakers who encouraged military members to refuse 'illegal orders,' @davidspunt and @JakeBGibsonreport

Probably to give them advice on how to better market their sedition talk next time around.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 25, 2025 11:23 AM (ufSfZ)

79 73 Posted by: Operator Error at November 25, 2025 11:22 AM (rGPrJ)

Different spanks, for different ranks.

Perversely the higher you go the less you get beat.

Posted by: sven at November 25, 2025 11:24 AM (MUJd1)

80 The state has always been corrupt and incompetent, but now the state knows that we know and are maybe a little curious as to what we can do about it. That's why they want digital ID and CBDC.

Posted by: Oglebay at November 25, 2025 11:24 AM (2ap+5)

81 Again, I don't care if what they said was 100% legal, and fully protected 1st Amendment speech.

Why?

Because, fuck them, that's why:
1) They are Democrats.
2) Never but never would they extend even 0.001% of the leeway they demand now to conservatives, and--this is the biggest,
3) These are all the same assholes that have spent the last 4 years yelling, lying and screaming that "Trump incited an insurrection!!" on J6.

Let them all recant and admit they lied about what Trump did and said on J6 and I'll consider changing my view.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 11:24 AM (T3zUV)

82 I think this call toward mutiny crosses the line into illegality since they directly indicate that Trump as CIC is issuing illegal orders.

I'm truly tired of these little rhetorical crimes given a pass. Consult your lawyers and if they give it a clean pass, bring them to trial with a nice hard penalty staring them in the face.

There is nothing wrong with upholding the letter of the law.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 25, 2025 11:25 AM (fXjrT)

83 So, nothing will happen, in summary?
Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 11:19 AM (PCK5/)

They may try something against Kelly, but even that will only be process. In the end it will be dropped.

And I don't think it's really helpful to our side to build up expectations that Something Will Be Done, when in fact there's no chance of it. Kind of like the way the Epstein Files got built up into this Big Thing, and then just pissed off a whole lot of people when they turned out to be nothing much at all.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 11:25 AM (uWKK8)

84 Posted by: sven at November 25, 2025 11:23 AM (MUJd1)

Sven! Haven't crossed paths with you in a while, brother! Hope you are well!

**fistbump**

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 25, 2025 11:26 AM (ufSfZ)

85 I have a loss of faith in the human institutions I “ swim” in. The result is pushing me closer and closer to God and what He ordains.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 11:26 AM (PCK5/)

86 Charge the assholes with jaywalking, spitting on the ground or talking back to their mamas - I don't give a fuck! I am sick to death of 'process' and 'norms' and 'something actionable.' I want revenge, and I am utterly pissed off that it isn't happening.

Fuck. I wasn't going to drink today, but I need it.
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Right there with ya. Especially the drink.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at November 25, 2025 11:26 AM (Q+3G7)

87 Sorry, man. Didn't mean to spin you up.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 11:23 AM (77rzZ)

It's OK. I really should cut back on my AoS time for a while and detox.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 25, 2025 11:27 AM (ufSfZ)

88 And if an Academy grad, he be really golden then.
Posted by: Operator Error
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Yep.

If something happens to Kelly, and he is punished under the UCMJ, I will be pleasantly surprised, but I'm not about to get my hopes up over it.

I personally think a lot of these retired officers need to have their pensions revoked for all the crap they've been spewing, especially since Trump came onto the scene.

Where were they when Obama and Biden were running roughshod over the Constitution?

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 25, 2025 11:27 AM (22p5n)

89 Maybe we should change our name to the United Oligarchs of the Empire of Ghettos?

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2025 11:27 AM (Wg6v7)

90 81 Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 11:24 AM (T3zUV)

Ogabe purged the ranks, to get "people more in line with my vision" all this is fucking academic.

The democrats do not view "the military as last check on democrat overreach" as at all valid when they are in power.

Fuck them and the horse they get rode by.

Posted by: sven at November 25, 2025 11:27 AM (MUJd1)

91 Again, I don't care if what they said was 100% legal, and fully protected 1st Amendment speech.

Why?

Because, fuck them, that's why:
1) They are Democrats.
2) Never but never would they extend even 0.001% of the leeway they demand now to conservatives, and--this is the biggest,
3) These are all the same assholes that have spent the last 4 years yelling, lying and screaming that "Trump incited an insurrection!!" on J6.

Let them all recant and admit they lied about what Trump did and said on J6 and I'll consider changing my view.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 11:24 AM (T3zUV)
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This. At this point, I don't care if what they did was illegal. Fuck them. Arrest and prosecute, let the chips fall where they may.

Far too many of us (including even on this blog) are too ready to shake our heads and do nothing because we think "nothing will happen."

Well, they may be right. Maybe even probably they are right. But for sure "nothing will happen" if we do nothing. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 11:27 AM (iFTx/)

92 Heya MP4!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 25, 2025 11:27 AM (22p5n)

93 In the Navy, the fear was constantly in my mind of running afoul of some regulation and ending up breaking rocks at Leavenworth. That, or inadvertantly mishandling classified information.

Having a clearance kept you hypervigilant of your own behavior.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 11:28 AM (77rzZ)

94 84 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 25, 2025 11:26 AM (ufSfZ)

I'm great and it is good to see you, saw AOP last night and still wonder on Empire of Jeff.

Take solace that the democrats are at their lowest ebb since 2002.

Posted by: sven at November 25, 2025 11:28 AM (MUJd1)

95 I have a loss of faith in the human institutions I “ swim” in. The result is pushing me closer and closer to God and what He ordains.
Posted by: tubal
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Faith in the Lord is what keeps me going, regardless of what the world does.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 25, 2025 11:29 AM (22p5n)

96 I have a loss of faith in the human institutions I “ swim” in. The result is pushing me closer and closer to God and what He ordains.

And people wonder why we became monks and lived in the wilderness.

Posted by: Saint Anthony the Great at November 25, 2025 11:29 AM (Riz8t)

97 They made the video to provoke a response from Trump that they could use to get their base of idiots worked up. And it worked. Trump overreacted and gave them what they wanted.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 25, 2025 11:29 AM (6Xm2W)

98 It's OK. I really should cut back on my AoS time for a while and detox.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

What's your new novel about? Another Theda Bara mystery?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 11:29 AM (77rzZ)

99 There were rumors back in Vietnam Way days, of regular army guys throwing hand grenades into their officers' tents. I think the notion was these undertrained "elite officers" were taking stupid risks with their men's lives. But maybe that was just disinformation back before internet days, idk.

Back in the early 80's I worked with a guy that was an officer in that era, but he was a hands on guy. He'd go out after incoming mortar rounds and measure angles to know where to return fire. Fortunately I missed that war by a couple years.

Posted by: illiniwek at November 25, 2025 11:30 AM (vbXSk)

100 97 Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 25, 2025 11:29 AM (6Xm2W)

Sure the best response by Trump to suborning of sedition is "that's nice comrade."

Posted by: sven at November 25, 2025 11:30 AM (MUJd1)

101 "What it apparently seeks to do is create doubt and distrust among the members of the military towards both their Commander-in-Chief and against the officers appointed over them. "


This is exactly what it does and they did it on purpose specifically to sow distrust in the military. I personally think they all should be taken out and shot.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 25, 2025 11:30 AM (0N4FZ)

102 This is pretty much my take too, Diogenes. They're being too cute by half and don't care what may happen to an impressionable servicemember, all to undermine the Chain of Command when they don't control it. Despicable.

- FCCS(SW/AW) Jeff Weimer, USN (ret)

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at November 25, 2025 11:31 AM (0c1TT)

103 Save democracy by staging military coup. The democrat way.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 11:31 AM (HW6XE)

104
The civilian loudmouths are gaping assholes, but if memory serves they engaged in their sedition under the protection of the 1st Amendment, and on the House floor, where members of Congress can say whatever they want without consequence (the late Hairy Reed being one of the worst).

But when you take The Oath, you trade in a bunch of your rights in exchange for being more likely to get shot in the face by the enemies of the United States. Fuck him, drag him back into uniform. Even if he doesn't get court martialed, drag him back anyway, just for GP.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 25, 2025 11:31 AM (y9nCu)

105 Faith in the Lord is what keeps me going, regardless of what the world does.
Posted by: SMH

I am growing in my faith lately. This world is just too fallen, so I'm increasingly looking forward to the world to come.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 11:31 AM (77rzZ)

106 This is exactly what it does and they did it on purpose specifically to sow distrust in the military. I personally think they all should be taken out and shot.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 25, 2025 11:30 AM (0N4FZ)

This.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 25, 2025 11:32 AM (snZF9)

107 Having a clearance kept you hypervigilant of your own behavior.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 11:28 AM (77rzZ)

Exactly this.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at November 25, 2025 11:32 AM (Sq3iI)

108 There were rumors back in Vietnam Way days, of regular army guys throwing hand grenades into their officers' tents. I think the notion was these undertrained "elite officers" were taking stupid risks with their men's lives. But maybe that was just disinformation back before internet days, idk.
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This is known as fragging, and it was a thing in Vietnam.

Heck, it even happened at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait at the leadup to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, but this was due to some crazy muslim NCO.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 25, 2025 11:32 AM (22p5n)

109 Well put.

Posted by: Art at November 25, 2025 11:32 AM (gSnZg)

110 I have a loss of faith in the human institutions I “ swim” in. The result is pushing me closer and closer to God and what He ordains.
Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 11:26 AM (PCK5/)

Bingo.

This is all spinning out of control now. There might be a good outcome; there almost definitely won't be, but in any event, there will be *some* outcome. And since our institutions are long since decoupled from any kind of input from the citizenry, we as individuals have zero agency in the things that happen between now and the disintegration of the regime.

It's best to just strap in, and try to live a life focused inwardly on your family, friends & faith. It's all that matters anymore. Not any of this *waves hand dismissively* horseshit. Some future generation will eventually rebuild from our rubble, so we need to raise them for that task.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 11:33 AM (BI5O2)

111 I am growing in my faith lately. This world is just too fallen, so I'm increasingly looking forward to the world to come.
Posted by: Bulg
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Amen.

We're just passing though.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 25, 2025 11:33 AM (22p5n)

112 109 Well put.

Posted by: Art

Thanks.
*I'll just assume he was talking to me*

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2025 11:33 AM (Riz8t)

113 105 Faith in the Lord is what keeps me going, regardless of what the world does.
Posted by: SMH

I am growing in my faith lately. This world is just too fallen, so I'm increasingly looking forward to the world to come.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 11:31 AM (77rzZ)

Yeah. I find it best to put my faith in the immutable and unchanging God. He’s trustworthy unlike people. Put not your faith in princes.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 11:33 AM (PCK5/)

114 103 Save democracy by staging military coup. The democrat way.
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The Law of Lincoln is inherently stupid. It states, that if your spouse, siblings or children wish to leave you, you are entitled to kill them to preserve a union that no longer exists.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2025 11:34 AM (Wg6v7)

115 What's your new novel about? Another Theda Bara mystery?
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 11:29 AM (77rzZ)

Yes. It takes place in 1922 and has her investigating the murder of the director William Desmond Taylor (which is a real Hollywood mystery). I'm taking a few days off to relax and then am going to work on the next draft. I'm hoping for a spring 2026 release, but we will see.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 25, 2025 11:34 AM (ufSfZ)

116 And it's about time to wrap things up for the day. See you all tomorrow.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 25, 2025 11:34 AM (ufSfZ)

117 Yeah. I find it best to put my faith in the immutable and unchanging God. He’s trustworthy unlike people. Put not your faith in princes.
Posted by: tubal
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Amen.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 25, 2025 11:35 AM (22p5n)

118 What institution do you still trust in our government? This is a very hard lift.
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bureau of weights and measures

Without it those formally one pound coffee cans would still be labeled "one pound".

Posted by: Operator Error at November 25, 2025 11:35 AM (rGPrJ)

119 retired officers ARE subject to the UCMJ ... some at least one of these morons may be in for some trouble ...

Posted by: The Dark Lord at November 25, 2025 11:35 AM (DBAaD)

120 Charge the assholes with jaywalking, spitting on the ground or talking back to their mamas - I don't give a fuck! I am sick to death of 'process' and 'norms' and 'something actionable.' I want revenge, and I am utterly pissed off that it isn't happening.

Unless you're suggesting that we just start indiscriminately shooting people, our side has to play by the rules in place. It sucks and it's not fair but it is what it is.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 11:35 AM (ExV1e)

121 So, the CIA has ops running today that were conceived shortly after WWII. Still running. The Agency has so many "fronts" (businesses that run agents and ops) that they don't need Congressional funding for all their "stuff."

The Agency is totally self sufficient. Ungovernable.

You simply don't "shut it down." It can't be. But you can lean hard on those it's co-opting within government to do its bidding. And there are a lot of those people running around the capitol city.

It just depends on the will-power of the administration and how they handle the people being co-opted. It's not as if they're rubes and have no idea what they're doing.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2025 11:36 AM (NwnyJ)

122 When the Israelites demanded a king, why didn't God just say no?

Posted by: Oglebay at November 25, 2025 11:37 AM (2ap+5)

123 There was a plan behind the initial video step. Some parts of it have been stopped. Other parts will adjust tactics and then be revealed. Things we haven't seen unfold. Commies don't do anything without a plan.
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The left has multiple operations they are running right now directly aimed at killing the last of America.
Each designed to stack on and feed off of the others to spread chaos and violence; each to lead to an attack on Trump:

1) This one, to incite mutiny, sedition and disloyalty among the enlisted ranks.
2) Using the Fed to scuttle the economy; interest rates kept high.
3) judicial insurrection via endless illegal orders, most issued in defiance of clear, direct and binding authority.
4) Over-seas agents provocateurs (exposed by X now) to sow dissent and confusion; to asto-turf and inflate contentious and extremist positions.
5) RINO and pretend-con congressional resignations and rumors of same.

Because the left knows that 2026 is their last chance in 40 years to take the House.
And without the House, they have no chance for the Presidency in 2028.
The left is going all-in.
The last 8 years will look tame and restrained by September of next year.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 11:37 AM (T3zUV)

124 It just depends on the will-power of the administration and how they handle the people being co-opted. It's not as if they're rubes and have no idea what they're doing.

Trump's a real estate developer in NYC. What would he know about institutionalized corruption?

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2025 11:37 AM (Riz8t)

125 retired officers ARE subject to the UCMJ
Posted by: The Dark Lord

Retired enlisted, too. Anyone drawing a military pension.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 11:38 AM (77rzZ)

126 I don't like being a wet blanket on cases like this, but the only cases where a charge of sedition has a chance of standing up is when there is a clear, direct, unambiguous call for violence - and even then not vague general violence, but an identifiable specific target. (of course I'm not talking about UCMJ, that's a different system)

And it gets worse - the SCOTUS precedent Brandenburg v. Ohio case established that speech advocating illegal action is protected unless it incites imminent lawless action. That's like "YOU GO TO MY MOTHER'S HOUSE RIGHT NOW AND BURN IT DOWN!!!"
Without something on that level, a conviction is impossible.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 11:38 AM (uWKK8)

127 Thanks for your service Diogenes!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 25, 2025 11:38 AM (HlyYF)

128 What would Lincoln have done? What would FDR have done?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 25, 2025 11:40 AM (g8Ew8)

129 I think this call toward mutiny crosses the line into illegality since they directly indicate that Trump as CIC is issuing illegal orders.

To the best of my knowledge, none of them has pointed to a single illegal order by Trump, even when pressed on the matter.

They're scum but they're cunning scum.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 11:40 AM (ExV1e)

130 When the Israelites demanded a king, why didn't God just say no?
Posted by: Oglebay at November 25, 2025 11:37 AM (2ap+5)

Not the point. He warned them, they didn't listen, he gave them what they asked for.

Hy did he allow Satan to torment Job, or tempt David?

Ya pay yer nickel, ya take yer ride.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 11:40 AM (BI5O2)

131 117

Amen.

And I appreciate the discussion of Scripture and the Vulgate Bible.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 11:40 AM (RKlIw)

132 Our legal system seems to be increasingly designed to protect the guilty and punish the innocent. Situationally, of course. Hard to be a fan.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 11:40 AM (PCK5/)

133 It takes place in 1922 and has her investigating the murder of the director William Desmond Taylor (which is a real Hollywood mystery).
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Wasn't he gay? And wasn't there some actress who was suspected of offing him?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 11:41 AM (77rzZ)

134 When the Israelites demanded a king, why didn't God just say no?
Posted by: Oglebay
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God's response was both an act of judgment (giving them what they wanted, good and hard) and a step toward fulfilling His greater plan, which included the eventual rise of a godly king like David and, in the fullness of time, the eternal reign of Jesus Christ, the true King from the line of Judah.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 25, 2025 11:41 AM (22p5n)

135
In the Navy, the fear was constantly in my mind of running afoul of some regulation and ending up breaking rocks at Leavenworth. That, or inadvertantly mishandling classified information.

Having a clearance kept you hypervigilant of your own behavior.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 11:28 AM (77rzZ)



It's been 30ish years since I finished my enlistment, and I still have nightmares about basic training and about the prospect of losing a KYK-13.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 25, 2025 11:41 AM (y9nCu)

136 A question for you folks that have served recently. Do installations still have brigs or stockades for locking up minor offenders? I had to write up an underling on UA charges (after "advice" form the SgtMaj) and he got 30 days in the Quantico brig. Also, one of the more entertaining sights at Cherry Point was the marching of the brig rats to chow. Those guys looked like the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace. When you PT and drill 8 hours a day you get good at it.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 25, 2025 11:42 AM (gm9Sb)

137 132 Our legal system seems to be increasingly designed to protect the guilty and punish the innocent. Situationally, of course. Hard to be a fan.
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When all the cops are criminals and all the sinner saints.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2025 11:42 AM (Wg6v7)

138 130 When the Israelites demanded a king, why didn't God just say no?
Posted by: Oglebay at November 25, 2025 11:37 AM (2ap+5)

Not the point. He warned them, they didn't listen, he gave them what they asked for.

Hy did he allow Satan to torment Job, or tempt David?

Ya pay yer nickel, ya take yer ride.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 11:40 AM (BI5O2)

Punishment for disobedience. Yeah, God will do that, contrary to some people’s notions.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 11:42 AM (PCK5/)

139 One major goal of Slotkins video was to provoke Trump, and he obligingly responded with a suggested death penalty for these sly fuckers.

Every AWFL in America got freshly whooped up into a frenzy. Expect more such outrageous material now, as midterms approach, because AWFL's are the core voters of the Democrat coalition.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 25, 2025 11:43 AM (vbMG5)

140 And I appreciate the discussion of Scripture and the Vulgate Bible.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke


As a former translator, I find the history of Biblical texts endlessly fascinating.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 11:43 AM (77rzZ)

141 Those guys looked like the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace. When you PT and drill 8 hours a day you get good at it.
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Parris Island was like that.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2025 11:43 AM (Wg6v7)

142 Please correct me if I am misremembering --

A rather high-ranked officer was offered even higher-ranked options for Ukraine. Wife was CIA? Twin was another branch of service.

Creepy stuff. So, how much bribery has been accepted over the past few decades?

Posted by: mustbequantum at November 25, 2025 11:43 AM (WiQPM)

143 Unless you're suggesting that we just start indiscriminately shooting people, our side has to play by the rules in place. It sucks and it's not fair but it is what it is.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 11:35 AM (ExV1e)

Especially since there is a full blown judicial revolt going on, which requires direct SCOTUS involvement in almost every case - see the Texas Redistricting case recently.

The Administration can only do what the SCOTUS is comfortable with. Lest I need to remind anyone, Trump is not strong enough to do away with the other branches of government and impose a protectorate. Not yet, at least.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 11:43 AM (uWKK8)

144 When I was a lowly private in the US Army I don’t remember any discussion whatsoever about unlawful orders. Maybe it was mentioned in basic but I can’t remember… it was a long time ago. For certain it was not an emphasized topic…. Different times I guess. I think it would’ve been better if everyone had simply ignored these jackwagons….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 25, 2025 11:43 AM (YobFY)

145 Punishment for disobedience. Yeah, God will do that, contrary to some people’s notions.
Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 11:42 AM (PCK5/)

“But God is LOVE, and that means affirming EVERYTHING I do! A God of love would NEVER punish anyone for anything! Why are you so HATEFUL?”

~ Typ mega-church goer

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at November 25, 2025 11:44 AM (Mxf84)

146 Expect more such outrageous material now, as midterms approach, because AWFL's are the core voters of the Democrat coalition.
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If Whoopie suddenly up and died, how long would the nation be expected to mourn?

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2025 11:44 AM (Wg6v7)

147 Not to step on the obviously correct “nothing will happen” guy, but for the record, because these seditious a-holes broadcast their crap to the world, they do not need to be tried in DC, in front of an all-Democrat jury. They deeply influenced the operations of the Wyoming National Guard, and can be tried in Meteetse. In front of a jury of tobacco chewing ranchers.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at November 25, 2025 11:44 AM (NBcgk)

148 The Administration can only do what the SCOTUS is comfortable with. Lest I need to remind anyone, Trump is not strong enough to do away with the other branches of government and impose a protectorate. Not yet, at least.

I have it on good authority that he's an absolute monarch.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2025 11:45 AM (Riz8t)

149 I’ll leave it to the experts to decide just how serious this is, but where this crossed the line for me was including a direct reference to the current Administration. That, in my opinion, might not reach the level of sedition, but it certainly comes close to incitement of mutiny. MUTINY: As written in the UCMJ, “ Acting in concert with others, a service member refuses to obey orders…”


Sedition: conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch.

Yeah. It did.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2025 11:45 AM (PDBoZ)

150 In 2019, California began working toward becoming the first state to institute a regionalized approach to implement its Next Generation 911 system, which was replacing 1970s-era technology. Instead of the statewide system traditionally used, the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services hoped a regionalized approach would prevent a single point of failure from causing a widespread outage by implementing three regional sectors and a fourth “prime” backup provider for statewide coverage.

But after spending around $450 million to build out the system, Cal OES halted the project last year due to “operational difficulties,” citing issues with the regional approach and stating it would pivot back toward the statewide approach.

The debacle, which comes on the heels of the state’s high-speed rail project that has similarly triggered criticism for facing sweeping delays and going billions of dollars over budget, has sparked concern from the California Fire Chiefs Association.

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 11:45 AM (RHGPo)

151 In the Navy, the fear was constantly in my mind of running afoul of some regulation and ending up breaking rocks at Leavenworth. That, or inadvertantly mishandling classified information.

Having a clearance kept you hypervigilant of your own behavior.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 11:28 AM (77rzZ)



It's been 30ish years since I finished my enlistment, and I still have nightmares about basic training and about the prospect of losing a KYK-13.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 25, 2025 11:41 AM


I gave Navy advancement exams some of which were classified secret three times a year for 18 years on active duty and another 10 as a civilian. I was terrified of losing one and being that guy they made an example of.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 25, 2025 11:46 AM (0N4FZ)

152 I noticed Wolf Blitzer (apparently) accused the Nazis of following illegal orders, and tried to make some Nuremburg comparisons. Maybe, he said “legal orders” and it was transcribed in error.

The point being in any case, the Allies notably did not allow “I was following orders” as a legal defense. Because, everything the Nazis did was legal under the laws. This is an important distinction.
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What’s going on with our current day unpleasantness is people want to work for the government, but they think the Constitution and our laws are a kind of Smorgasbord. “Oh, I don’t like that law, I don’t like that regulation, that policy isn’t what I want.”

These twats have been infesting and infiltrating government since the “Clean for Gene” era if not earlier. You don’t have to like the President. You don’t have to like his policies. But he is the CINC.

Find another line of work, because government is not in your skill set.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 25, 2025 11:46 AM (p9bn0)

153 When I was a lowly private in the US Army I don’t remember any discussion whatsoever about unlawful orders. Maybe it was mentioned in basic but I can’t remember… it was a long time ago. For certain it was not an emphasized topic…. Different times I guess. I think it would’ve been better if everyone had simply ignored these jackwagons….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 25, 2025 11:43 AM (YobFY)

I'd bet that units are holding a refresher course in case anyone has forgotten.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 11:46 AM (ExV1e)

154 140 And I appreciate the discussion of Scripture and the Vulgate Bible.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke


As a former translator, I find the history of Biblical texts endlessly fascinating.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 11:43 AM (77rzZ)

I realize I come here and snark, and sometimes “ color outside the lines” but in the end I put my reliance on Almighty God and His promises. He’s my only true source of clarity and faithfulness in this world. The “ world” cannot be trusted because it is so deeply broken.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 11:46 AM (PCK5/)

155 141 Heh. This is no shit. Our Drill Instructor, not the Senior DI, but the "Hammer" marched us out to a remote basketball court outside battalion and coached us on goose stepping. Guess he thought it looked cool.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 25, 2025 11:46 AM (gm9Sb)

156 OT- In a fit of pique someone had thrown out a bunch of lottery tickets which hadn't won on the ground at the convenience store . They also threw out one which they hadn't scraped off. It was worth $2.00. Not much, but it was $ 2.00 more than I had before .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 11:46 AM (9OpPK)

157 Thanks for your essay,. Diogenes. Good to see you back again writing!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 11:48 AM (9OpPK)

158 Yusuf and his wife Lul Ahmed were charged with stealing $7.2 million of taxpayer money through Medicaid overbilling in a personal care assistant (PCA) scam.

The couple allegedly spent tens of thousands of the fraud money on luxury items for themselves.

"It was not a difficult decision whatsoever. The deliberation took probably four hours at most. Based off of the state's evidence that was presented, it was beyond a reasonable doubt," jury foreperson Ben Walfoort told KARE 11 News.
Related Man convicted in multimillion-dollar Medicaid fraud scheme

Despite the jury swiftly convicting Yusuf, Judge Sarah West last week decided that they got it wrong, overturning the verdict and issuing a judgment of acquittal.

Judge West said the state's cased relied "heavily on circumstantial evidence" and that the state did not "exclude other reasonable, rational inferences."

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 11:48 AM (RHGPo)

159 132 Our legal system seems to be increasingly designed to protect the guilty and punish the innocent. Situationally, of course. Hard to be a fan.
Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 11:40 AM (PCK5/)

That comes from the fact that our Constitution, unlike almost any other nations, is specifically designed to limit the Government's power over its citizens, not to expand it. When it gets too strong we get more J6's. At least our system finally overturned that, although it took far too many years for it to happen.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 11:48 AM (uWKK8)

160 When I was a lowly private in the US Army I don’t remember any discussion whatsoever about unlawful orders. Maybe it was mentioned in basic but I can’t remember… it was a long time ago. For certain it was not an emphasized topic…. Different times I guess. I think it would’ve been better if everyone had simply ignored these jackwagons….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 25, 2025 11:43 AM (YobFY)

We spent a whole morning training session on it during my basic.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 25, 2025 11:48 AM (g8Ew8)

161 When I was a lowly private in the US Army I don’t remember any discussion whatsoever about unlawful orders. Maybe it was mentioned in basic but I can’t remember… it was a long time ago. For certain it was not an emphasized topic…. Different times I guess. I think it would’ve been better if everyone had simply ignored these jackwagons….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 25, 2025 11:43 AM (YobFY)

I'd bet that units are holding a refresher course in case anyone has forgotten.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 11:46 AM


When I was in it was a required training session once a year. That may have been changed over the decades since I retired but it used to be required training every year.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 25, 2025 11:48 AM (0N4FZ)

162 156 OT- In a fit of pique someone had thrown out a bunch of lottery tickets which hadn't won on the ground at the convenience store . They also threw out one which they hadn't scraped off. It was worth $2.00. Not much, but it was $ 2.00 more than I had before .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 11:46 AM (9OpPK)

“Leave no stone unturned” is thus proven.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 11:49 AM (PCK5/)

163 Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 11:46 AM (PCK5

Yes indeed!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 11:49 AM (9OpPK)

164 Judge West said the state's cased relied "heavily on circumstantial evidence" and that the state did not "exclude other reasonable, rational inferences."
Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 11:48 AM (RHGPo)

Someone’s been over to notthebee.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at November 25, 2025 11:49 AM (Mxf84)

165 Unless you're suggesting that we just start indiscriminately shooting people, our side has to play by the rules in place. It sucks and it's not fair but it is what it is.

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Then do what they do......apply the law good and hard.

Sick of this simpering hand-wringing.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at November 25, 2025 11:49 AM (Q+3G7)

166 Despite the jury swiftly convicting Yusuf, Judge Sarah West last week decided that they got it wrong, overturning the verdict and issuing a judgment of acquittal.

Judge West said the state's cased relied "heavily on circumstantial evidence" and that the state did not "exclude other reasonable, rational inferences."
Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 11:48 AM (RHGPo)

I assume that this can be appealed.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 11:49 AM (ExV1e)

167 Ministers have proposed to end the right to a jury trial for a vast range of criminal offences in England and Wales, as they grapple with a vast backlog of cases that is delaying hearings by more than a year in many instances. Under the shake-up, juries would remain involved in only the most serious trials — for offences such as rape, murder and manslaughter — or if there was a strong public interest in the case. All other cases would be heard by a judge sitting alone.

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 11:49 AM (RHGPo)

168 OT- In a fit of pique someone had thrown out a bunch of lottery tickets which hadn't won on the ground at the convenience store . They also threw out one which they hadn't scraped off. It was worth $2.00. Not much, but it was $ 2.00 more than I had before .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 11:46 AM (9OpPK)

Finders keepers, losers weepers…. We’d chant this when I was a kid heh

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 25, 2025 11:50 AM (YobFY)

169 I think the pdt and hegseth are playing this wrong. They need to call out the people who made the video to clarify what illegal orders they belive had been issued. If they call out a legal order as illegal then they are in a heap of trouble. Of course they will backtrack because they won't be able to find one. Then they need to be called out for toying with getting lowly troops to commit crimes based on their weak sauce accusations. Call out the press too for not sniffing out these mystery illegal orders or pressing these clowns.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at November 25, 2025 11:50 AM (i0Hi3)

170 They also threw out one which they hadn't scraped off. It was worth $2.00. Not much, but it was $ 2.00 more than I had before .
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I bet the 49ers to win in the late third quarter last night. Of course I won cuz the game was largely done. Then I asked myself, why are you betting a game before it kicks off? This is in my mind today.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2025 11:50 AM (Wg6v7)

171 It still amazes me that so many are still willing to extend cover to the Dems, that this is "still time for following the rules," e.g. the First Amendment.

Were the Dems following the rules when they impeached Trump for "inciting an insurrection?"
Were the Dems following the rules when they arrested Trump for made-up felonies, to imprison him for life?
To prevent you from voting for him ever again?
Were the Dems following the rules when they tried, at least, twice to kill Trump?

This is the difference between crossing a frozen river at midnight to ambush your enemy while they're drunk celebrating and accepting their surrender at Yorktown--the time for rules is when they surrender.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 11:50 AM (T3zUV)

172 Judge West said the state's cased relied "heavily on circumstantial evidence" and that the state did not "exclude other reasonable, rational inferences."
Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 11:48 AM (RHGPo)

I sincerely hope that Judge's ruling is quickly overturned, because what was stated there was the Jury's decision to make, not the Judge's. The State is not required to present all possible rational inferences, that is the job of the Defense. and it is the job of the Jury to decide.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 11:50 AM (uWKK8)

173 The Administration can only do what the SCOTUS is comfortable with. Lest I need to remind anyone, Trump is not strong enough to do away with the other branches of government and impose a protectorate. Not yet, at least.

Thought Experiment: The Left, with their anarcho-tyranny at minimum wants a Civil War, the end means is to end Western Civilization, ergo elimination of the current form of government.

The question is asked: "once you destroy the US and remove us from the structure of the Constitution and Rule of Law, what is its replacement?"

They concoct all kinds of Marxist/Demonic organizations, but what if Trump short circuits it and declares himself emperor and the military agrees to support it?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 11:50 AM (a4flb)

174 Ministers have proposed to end the right to a jury trial for a vast range of criminal offences in England and Wales, as they grapple with a vast backlog of cases that is delaying hearings by more than a year in many instances. Under the shake-up, juries would remain involved in only the most serious trials — for offences such as rape, murder and manslaughter — or if there was a strong public interest in the case. All other cases would be heard by a judge sitting alone.

Well, maybe if they stopped arresting people for posting memes they don't like...

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2025 11:50 AM (Riz8t)

175 When I was in it was a required training session once a year. That may have been changed over the decades since I retired but it used to be required training every year.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)

We had yearly training on the Code of Conduct and Geneva Convention, but I don't remember if the issue of Illegal orders was addressed.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 11:51 AM (77rzZ)

176 152 I noticed Wolf Blitzer (apparently) accused the Nazis of following illegal orders, and tried to make some Nuremburg comparisons.
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Is this the same Wolf Blitzer who scored a zero on Jeopardy?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 25, 2025 11:51 AM (ytIvj)

177 139 One major goal of Slotkins video was to provoke Trump, and he obligingly responded with a suggested death penalty for these sly fuckers.

Every AWFL in America got freshly whooped up into a frenzy. Expect more such outrageous material now, as midterms approach, because AWFL's are the core voters of the Democrat coalition.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 25, 2025 11:43 AM (vbMG5)

Trump was right to torch these people publicly. Sedition - or mutiny - can't be allowed to stand. These people weren't rando celebrities, they were in Congress.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 25, 2025 11:52 AM (0CU3H)

178 I approve of this post.

Reforger is a four year Army veteran and decorated shammer with an additional 30 years working in bullshit jobs for marginal pay. He attained the highest honor and E4 of his ill repute can, Captains Driver. He often imagines he has a lawn and local kids to yell at to get off it.

Posted by: Reforger at November 25, 2025 11:52 AM (03GBw)

179 So on 31 DEC 2025 (orders are published) I will be officially to the Retired List after 40 years, 7 months and 11 days of military service. In all those years of walking in and out of various HQs (BN, BDE, DIV, Corps, Army, Joint) I passed by what are called Command Boards. President, SecDef, SecNav/SecArmy, and so on down the chain of command. Not once in all of those 40+ years have I ever seen a Senator or Representative. I have been told that ALL of my actions and statements are subject to UCMJ action even after I retire. Mark Kelly is and should be held to the same standard as a retired Naval officer. He also should have known better. You don't get to post a thinly disguised coup recruitment video and then claim to be a free speech martyr. It's called FAFO for a reason

Posted by: Stacy0311 at November 25, 2025 11:52 AM (G1ktt)

180 Is this the same Wolf Blitzer who scored a zero on Jeopardy?
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Snort.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2025 11:52 AM (Wg6v7)

181 Yay! Happy Birthday to me today!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 25, 2025 11:52 AM (QGaXH)

182 Lottery tickets. A friend in Erie had a tiny store on the first floor of a busy office building. PA lottery provided a kiosk to fill out tickets, scratch instants, and so on . My friend kept a waste basket under the kiosk and would drag $30 or $40 in winners out of it in a week.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 25, 2025 11:54 AM (gm9Sb)

183 I always found it off that adultery was punishable under the UCMJ. I mean, it was EVERYWHERE in the military.

One of my bosses as a corporate paralegal had been an Army JAG. I asked him about it, and he said that it was just something that was there to get somebody when they couldn't get him on anything else.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 11:54 AM (77rzZ)

184 I once watched a guy in a gas station in north Georgia buy a hundred bucks of scratchies in front of me and start scratching them. I did my transaction, and told him good luck as I was walking out. I had to change a diaper and stuff outside, so I saw him walk out with a big grin. "What did you win," I asked. "Not a damn dollar," says he.

Sometimes it's really not about the money, I guess.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 11:55 AM (BI5O2)

185 For those expressing thanks for my service, I think I speak for many of us here on this smart military blog that it was our honor to serve.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2025 11:55 AM (y3bZw)

186 Mood lightener: What this woman wants is delusional.

https://is.gd/v991Dl

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2025 11:55 AM (Riz8t)

187 179 Posted by: Stacy0311 at November 25, 2025 11:52 AM (G1ktt)

Congratulations and thank you for your years of service.

Please pick up your 'stay off my lawn' sign at the front desk.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 25, 2025 11:55 AM (QGaXH)

188 181 Yay! Happy Birthday to me today!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 25, 2025 11:52 AM (QGaXH)

Same here! I'm 29+29+... today as well

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 25, 2025 11:55 AM (0CU3H)

189 What 2 hot wars, Iraq and Afghanistan?

Posted by: anon2020 at November 25, 2025 11:55 AM (RqMDa)

190
They concoct all kinds of Marxist/Demonic organizations, but what if Trump short circuits it and declares himself emperor and the military agrees to support it?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 11:50 AM (a4flb)

Which in fact is what always ends up happening in societies that go through this - England wants to cut down a king, they end up with a Cromwell. France wants a legislature; they end up with a Napoleon. Augustus was actually a pretty good ruler; the problem wasn't Augustus, but the line of authority that replaced him once he was gone.

That's always been the path.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 11:56 AM (uWKK8)

191 The seditious six were coached on how to frame "illegal orders" without jeopardizing themselves. The message was very specific in its language. What was, and wasn't said. It was scripted, obviously.

I'd be looking into who helped script the message for them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2025 11:56 AM (NwnyJ)

192 Eugene Vindman
@YVindman

I’m ready to come back on active duty to defend @CaptMarkKelly
as an Army JAG.

I’ve got a pretty good win record…. See you in court.

... has Vindman thought this thru ? The C-in-C might have a score to settle, so come on back.

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 11:57 AM (RHGPo)

193 Happy Birthday Darrell !!!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 25, 2025 11:57 AM (QGaXH)

194 Stacy0311...

Well served! Congrats on the retirement.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2025 11:57 AM (y3bZw)

195 And yes....I'm 29+++ also.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 25, 2025 11:57 AM (QGaXH)

196 Happy birthday to all who have one today!

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 11:58 AM (77rzZ)

197 The seditious six were coached on how to frame "illegal orders" without jeopardizing themselves. The message was very specific in its language. What was, and wasn't said. It was scripted, obviously.

I'd be looking into who helped script the message for them.

Wordsmithing is not a crime. Nor are the carefully selected words and phrases the seditious 6 used. They stepped up to the line, but did not cross it, IMHO.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2025 11:58 AM (Riz8t)

198 95 I have a loss of faith in the human institutions I “ swim” in. The result is pushing me closer and closer to God and what He ordains.
Posted by: tubal
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Faith in the Lord is what keeps me going, regardless of what the world does.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy
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Absolutely, positively, without a doubt - Praise the Lord.

But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble on its own." - Matthew 6:33-34 (NIV)

"Then Job replied to the Lord.

I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted. You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.

“You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you shall answer me.’ My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.

Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes." - Job 42: 1-6 (NIV)

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at November 25, 2025 11:58 AM (VkY89)

199 29 Trump could fling some poon and...

Fling some my way!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at November 25, 2025 11:59 AM (JCZqz)

200 40 years?
Damn, and thank you.

Posted by: Reforger at November 25, 2025 11:59 AM (03GBw)

201 Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.

Pffffft. I despise each and every one of you.

Posted by: That Japanese guy at November 25, 2025 11:59 AM (Riz8t)

202 I saw him walk out with a big grin. "What did you win," I asked. "Not a damn dollar," says he.

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Now, this guy had a plan.

Italian man hides dead mom's body, dresses up as her for three years to collect pension

https://is.gd/Sv8l5p

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 11:59 AM (L/fGl)

203 Has anybody ever done a play/movie of the Book of Job? That could be very cool, if done right.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 12:00 PM (77rzZ)

204 191 The seditious six were coached on how to frame "illegal orders" without jeopardizing themselves. The message was very specific in its language. What was, and wasn't said. It was scripted, obviously.

I'd be looking into who helped script the message for them.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2025 11:56 AM (NwnyJ)

And did you catch the soft soulful music? They had Hollywood help.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2025 12:00 PM (y3bZw)

205 I'm a three year Army Vet, Major's Driver in Germany. Decorated capo of the E-4 Mafia. They gave me a clearance (for carrying maps, plans, secure comms, etc.). I would have never given me that clearance. At the time I got it, I was breaking every rule in the book, including living off-base as a single soldier, and everyone knew it, but they rubber-stamped me, I guess. It was a cake job, I loved it.

Posted by: Lincolntf at November 25, 2025 12:00 PM (vV6n9)

206 191 The seditious six were coached on how to frame "illegal orders" without jeopardizing themselves. The message was very specific in its language. What was, and wasn't said. It was scripted, obviously.

I'd be looking into who helped script the message for them.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2025 11:56 AM (NwnyJ)

I would expect Marc Elias was in on it, he's been the master of Dem dirty tricks ever since Clinton was in office. This right here would be the least of some of the things he's pulled off.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 12:01 PM (uWKK8)

207 203 Has anybody ever done a play/movie of the Book of Job? That could be very cool, if done right.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 12:00 PM (77rzZ)

Did not Heinlein do something about Job?

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 12:01 PM (PCK5/)

208 Now, this guy had a plan.

Italian man hides dead mom's body, dresses up as her for three years to collect pension


You call that a plan? THIS is a plan.

They Said Young Men Lack Ambition, So These Two Planned a Coup

Two Texans planned to form their own mercenary army and take over Haiti. Yes, really.

https://is.gd/dAfNGT

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2025 12:01 PM (Riz8t)

209 Good rant, Diogenes, Thanks for taking the time to write it up, and thank you for serving!

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2025 12:01 PM (Ltmlv)

210 Job!!!! The Musical!!!

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 12:02 PM (PCK5/)

211 Yay! Happy Birthday to me today!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK)
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Happy Birthday!

Mine is tomorrow!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 25, 2025 12:02 PM (22p5n)

212 Mine is tomorrow!
Posted by: SMH

Happy Birthday, SMH!

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 12:03 PM (77rzZ)

213 211 Yay! Happy Birthday to me today!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK)
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Happy Birthday!

Mine is tomorrow!
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 25, 2025 12:02 PM (22p5n)


A year younger???

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 12:03 PM (PCK5/)

214 A year younger???
Posted by: tubal
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lol

57.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 25, 2025 12:03 PM (22p5n)

215
God's response was both an act of judgment (giving them what they wanted, good and hard) and a step toward fulfilling His greater plan, which included the eventual rise of a godly king like David and, in the fullness of time, the eternal reign of Jesus Christ, the true King from the line of Judah.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 25, 2025 11:41 AM (22p5n)

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Yeah, I guess if God just wanted to hurt them, he would have insisted they adopt a democracy.

Posted by: Oglebay at November 25, 2025 12:04 PM (2ap+5)

216 214 A year younger???
Posted by: tubal
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lol

57.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 25, 2025 12:03 PM (22p5n)

Well congratulations. You are blessed.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 12:04 PM (PCK5/)

217
You call that a plan? THIS is a plan.

They Said Young Men Lack Ambition, So These Two Planned a Coup

Two Texans planned to form their own mercenary army and take over Haiti. Yes, really.

https://is.gd/dAfNGT
Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2025 12:01 PM (Riz8t)

Seems like a plan made on pot at 4am...I mean, what homeless army would join them vs just killing the 2 morons and taking the boat they purchased.

Not saying they shouldn't be charged and convicted of drug use and spend some time in jail getting clean and getting a wake up call...but the rest...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2025 12:04 PM (tOcjL)

218 Eugene Vindman
@YVindman
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That's the one. Icky.

Posted by: mustbequantum at November 25, 2025 12:04 PM (WiQPM)

219 Job!!!! The Musical!!!
Posted by: tubal


"Behemoth Boogie"
"Leviathan Waltz"

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 12:04 PM (77rzZ)

220 Pffffft. I despise each and every one of you.
Posted by: That Japanese guy at November 25, 2025 11:59 AM (Riz8t)

Toyama Koichi, a great Japanese thinker. Not as incisive or successful as Otoya Yamaguchi, but you should listen to him. He's pre-med.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 12:05 PM (BI5O2)

221 Setting aside, briefly, the specifics:

I am sick and tired of 'If they say it on the House/Senate floor, no consequences' and it sickens me that the Constitution grants them protection from "questioning in other Places" for "Speech and Debate [in the Houses of Congress]".

Either no consequences for anyone anywhere, or the exact same consequences for everyone, everywhere. "No titles of nobility" must include not making Congress into nobility-in-all-but-name. No special privileges for Congress and other gov't types not directly granted in writing by the Constitution, and we need to amend the Constitution to tighten up that clause so that only "Speech and Debate" about _legislation_ counts, as was presumably intended.

Posted by: RandomDave at November 25, 2025 12:05 PM (aJQbY)

222 Wordsmithing is not a crime. Nor are the carefully selected words and phrases the seditious 6 used. They stepped up to the line, but did not cross it, IMHO.
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I'm okay with twelve jurors in Amarillo, Texas deciding whether what they said was intended to be heard as a call for illegally disobeying lawful orders.

Remember when the left change the well-settled requirement of conspiracy for the J6, from the "overt or tacit" agreement to "even a wink or a nod--even if you imply the wink or the nod?"

Yeah. Fuck them.

Instruct the jury they can imply what the speakers intended in order to convict.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 12:05 PM (T3zUV)

223 You call that a plan? THIS is a plan.

They Said Young Men Lack Ambition, So These Two Planned a Coup

Two Texans planned to form their own mercenary army and take over Haiti. Yes, really.

https://is.gd/dAfNGT
Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2025 12:01 PM (Riz8t)

LOL that rates as the weirdest story I have seen in a long time! I can't wait to see the evidence; this reads more like another Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey than an actual plot.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 12:05 PM (uWKK8)

224 203 Has anybody ever done a play/movie of the Book of Job? That could be very cool, if done right.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 12:00 PM

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I'm sitting right here.

Posted by: IMDB at November 25, 2025 12:05 PM (wq6Zu)

225 209 Good rant, Diogenes, Thanks for taking the time to write it up, and thank you for serving!
Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2025 12:01 PM (Ltmlv)

Great post and rant! And thank you also for serving Diogenes!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 25, 2025 12:06 PM (QGaXH)

226 Thanks for this Diogenes.

Unlikely there will be legal action against Kelly. Whole pathetic stunt was structured to remain within the lines that can be practically enforced.

Probably a much better - though still not practically enforceable - case against the many elected public figures at various levels who have incited violence against ICE. Even amidst the decades of decline, this has been a huge ratchet turn in the civic culture collapse.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 25, 2025 12:06 PM (U/Byj)

227 Why would anyone want to take over...Haiti?

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 25, 2025 12:06 PM (22p5n)

228 Thousands of farmers and transportation workers took to the streets throughout Mexico to set up blockades along the main highways in the country as a way to protest the cartel violence and the extortion that they are subjected to. The protests come at a time of mounting pressure for Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum over widespread allegations that, instead of protecting her citizens from organized crime, she and the country’s ruling party, MORENA, have been protecting the various criminal organizations terrorizing the nation.

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 12:06 PM (RHGPo)

229 Dear Geezer Golfers,

You are not required to follow Diogenes' ill-advised golf tips.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 12:07 PM (77rzZ)

230 Two Texans planned to form their own mercenary army and take over Haiti. Yes, really.

https://is.gd/dAfNGT
Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2025 12:01 PM (Riz8t)

But can they do it using only half a dozen properly oiled up Playboy Playmates?

Posted by: Andy Sidaris at November 25, 2025 12:07 PM (pIfcn)

231 Speaking of birthdays…

So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it’s sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way but you’re older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Those Pink Floyd guys were such optimists!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 25, 2025 12:07 PM (/iXAp)

232 Did not Heinlein do something about Job?
Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 12:01 PM (PCK5/)
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Yeah, but it was more in name only and satirical than a serious story about Job and his woes.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 25, 2025 12:07 PM (IBQGV)

233 Why would anyone want to take over...Haiti?
Posted by: SMH

Hey, it's run by a guy named Barbecue! Sounds like a fun place!

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 12:08 PM (77rzZ)

234 Why would anyone want to take over...Haiti?

A fair question.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2025 12:08 PM (Riz8t)

235 >>Has anybody ever done a play/movie of the Book of Job? That could be very cool, if done right.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 12:00 PM (77rzZ)

Archibald MacLeish (sp?) wrote an updated version called JB that was assigned reading in high school. Don't remember much of it.

Posted by: Frank Cannonball at November 25, 2025 12:08 PM (NcvvS)

236 232 Did not Heinlein do something about Job?
Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 12:01 PM (PCK5/)
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Yeah, but it was more in name only and satirical than a serious story about Job and his woes.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 25, 2025 12:07 PM (IBQGV)

Ah, thanks.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 12:08 PM (PCK5/)

237 lol Bulg.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 25, 2025 12:08 PM (22p5n)

238 I thought it was common knowledge that Sheinbaum (along with all Mexican politicians) is employed by the cartels.

It's not an "accusation," it's just Mexico.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 12:08 PM (BI5O2)

239 OT- In a fit of pique someone had thrown out a bunch of lottery tickets which hadn't won on the ground at the convenience store . They also threw out one which they hadn't scraped off. It was worth $2.00. Not much, but it was $ 2.00 more than I had before .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 11:46 AM (9OpPK)

Take it as a sign to buy a Powerball ticket, Fen.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 12:08 PM (npFr7)

240 Despite the best efforts of the corporate media and some in the Republican Party, President Donald Trump’s approval rating with the GOP not only remains as strong as it ever has (which is really, really strong), but he tops former Presidents Barry Obama and George W. Bush.

.. funny, I just saw a YouTube ad saying Trump’s approval rating is falling

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 12:09 PM (RHGPo)

241 Two Texans planned to form their own mercenary army and take over Haiti. Yes, really.

https://is.gd/dAfNGT
Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2025 12:01 PM (Riz8t)


A modern day Red Zone Cuba. Too bad Coleman Francis is dead.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at November 25, 2025 12:10 PM (PSEDc)

242 Archibald MacLeish (sp?) wrote an updated version called JB that was assigned reading in high school. Don't remember much of it.
Posted by: Frank Cannonball at November 25, 2025 12:08 PM (NcvvS)
----
Whoa. That takes me back. I remember reading that in high school English class! (Junior year, I believe).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 25, 2025 12:10 PM (IBQGV)

243 205 I'm a three year Army Vet, Major's Driver in Germany. Decorated capo of the E-4 Mafia. They gave me a clearance (for carrying maps, plans, secure comms, etc.). I would have never given me that clearance. At the time I got it, I was breaking every rule in the book, including living off-base as a single soldier, and everyone knew it, but they rubber-stamped me, I guess. It was a cake job, I loved it.
Posted by: Lincolntf at November 25, 2025 12:00 PM (vV6n9)

***

You sound like one of my drivers. Oh wait!!! Were you in Augsburg 1989???

Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2025 12:10 PM (y3bZw)

244 Diogenes is a twenty year Army veteran and Military Intelligence Officer with an additional 20 years working in the Intelligence Community as a contractor and consultant. And he yells at kids to keep off his yard.]

---

Diogenes of Sinope, wandering the streets of ancient Athens in broad daylight, holding a lantern, saying - "I am looking for an honest man."

He never found one.

Yep, it all fits.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2025 12:11 PM (cYBz/)

245 You call that a plan? THIS is a plan.

They Said Young Men Lack Ambition, So These Two Planned a Coup

Two Texans planned to form their own mercenary army and take over Haiti. Yes, really.

https://is.gd/dAfNGT
Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2025 12:01 PM (Riz8t)

LOL that rates as the weirdest story I have seen in a long time! I can't wait to see the evidence; this reads more like another Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey than an actual plot.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 12:05 PM (uWKK
___

I'll bet any amount of money a lot of drugs were involved. And if you look at the pics of these retards, you will doubt they like girls.

Btw, what USA laws did they break? Interfering with the MIC grift in Haiti?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 25, 2025 12:11 PM (iFTx/)

246 The problem with invading and conquering Haiti is then you'd have Haiti.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 12:11 PM (L/fGl)

247 sock off, dammit.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 25, 2025 12:12 PM (NcvvS)

248 57.
Posted by: SMH

I've only got three years on you, so I can't really tell you to get off my lawn.

Maybe just stop looking at my front porch?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 12:12 PM (77rzZ)

249 >>... has Vindman thought this thru ? The C-in-C might have a score to settle, so come on back.

Both Vindman's are already under investigation for acting as foreign agents for Ukraine.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2025 12:12 PM (viF8m)

250 My preacher dad tells me he believes Job is one of the earliest books of the Bible… no reference to the law of Moses in the book so before him… very early on.

One lesson I take from that book; even at the end God does not explain himself to Job. We don’t deserve answers (or anything) from God. He’s God and we’re…. Not

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 25, 2025 12:12 PM (/iXAp)

251 Dear Geezer Golfers,

You are not required to follow Diogenes' ill-advised golf tips.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 12:07 PM
***

I think they let me play in the group just as an example of what not to do.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2025 12:12 PM (y3bZw)

252 Haha Bulg.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 25, 2025 12:12 PM (22p5n)

253 VOTE VANCE!

Posted by: Sid at November 25, 2025 12:13 PM (4xPfI)

254 No, Diogenes, I was in Baumholder 1991-94, just missed you.

Posted by: Lincolntf at November 25, 2025 12:13 PM (vV6n9)

255 227 Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 25, 2025 12:06 PM (22p5n)

The issues with Haiti are largely Haitians.

There is a certain level of geographical wealth potential, tourism desirability, and strategic value in location that with a better population would make it a better place.

The concept they are being attacked for was called "filibustering."

Posted by: sven at November 25, 2025 12:13 PM (MUJd1)

256 One lesson I take from that book; even at the end God does not explain himself to Job. We don’t deserve answers (or anything) from God. He’s God and we’re…. Not
__

I find this very comforting.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 25, 2025 12:13 PM (22p5n)

257 No, Diogenes, I was in Baumholder 1991-94, just missed you.
Posted by: Lincolntf

I've been a Bumholder my entire life!!
-- Buttigig

Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2025 12:14 PM (cYBz/)

258 250 Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 25, 2025 12:12 PM (/iXAp)

Not preaching, or inflicting my beliefs on anyone.

God is a scientist engaged in a study of the impact of free will in a reasonably sapient population.

Posted by: sven at November 25, 2025 12:14 PM (MUJd1)

259 >>Whoa. That takes me back. I remember reading that in high school English class! (Junior year, I believe).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 25, 2025 12:10 PM (IBQGV)

Think it was freshman year, here, and of all my high school teachers (a colourful lot), she was in the top two for 'most eccentric': she wore bedroom slippers to school once.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 25, 2025 12:15 PM (NcvvS)

260 Hey sven!

Considering that a sizable portion of the population is already here, shouldn't be too much of an issue to move the rest to say, California, and make Haiti a territory of the Horde.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 25, 2025 12:15 PM (22p5n)

261 One lesson I take from that book; even at the end God does not explain himself to Job.

"Hey, it was just a bet between me and Satan. And I won!"

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 12:15 PM (77rzZ)

262 The issues with Haiti are largely Haitians.

There is a certain level of geographical wealth potential, tourism desirability, and strategic value in location that with a better population would make it a better place.
Posted by: sven

See also: The Gaza strip

Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2025 12:15 PM (cYBz/)

263 Diogenes of Sinope, wandering the streets of ancient Athens in broad daylight, holding a lantern, saying - "I am looking for an honest man."

He never found one.

Yep, it all fits.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2025 12:11 PM (cYBz/)


I was stationed in Sinop for a year, hence the name.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2025 12:16 PM (y3bZw)

264 "...impact of free will in a reasonably sapient population."


And boobs.

Posted by: Don't forget boobs at November 25, 2025 12:16 PM (wq6Zu)

265 Thanks to everyone who served, and happy birthday to all celebrating a birthday yesterday, today or tomorrow.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 12:16 PM (XiPmc)

266 Diogenes, did you ever cross paths with Pete Buttigieg?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 12:16 PM (77rzZ)

267 Thanks Fen : )

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 25, 2025 12:17 PM (22p5n)

268 256 Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 25, 2025 12:13 PM (22p5n)

Yup, the systemic indifference properly understood is to a degree empowering. Part of why I get VERY nervous around believers of any faith that act as though they are engaged in contract negotiations with a force that created the universe. My mother-in-law's Church back in the early 90s had a preacher who invoked "Lord you promised(with the imputation that this was a demand for services" us in the covenants" like it was an HOA.

Yeah no thanks, I am humbled before Him not across a table from Him.

Posted by: sven at November 25, 2025 12:17 PM (MUJd1)

269 AWFL Aftyn as you've never seen her before!

https://is.gd/LHQgpO

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 12:17 PM (L/fGl)

270 One lesson I take from that book; even at the end God does not explain himself to Job.

"Hey, it was just a bet between me and Satan. And I won!"
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 12:15 PM (77rzZ)

Do you suppose that’s where the plot of the movie Trading Places came from? How much was the bet? A dollar 😂

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 25, 2025 12:18 PM (/iXAp)

271 Willian Newsom: (father of Gavin)

In 1968, he ran unsuccessfully against California State Senator Milton Marks, a popular Republican. Newsom was also corporate counsel and a board member for Trans-International Computer Investment Corporation (TCI), which handled classified government contracts, for which Newsom was issued a National Security Clearance. TCI went bankrupt in 1971 after what the Sacramento District Attorney called "the biggest stock fraud in California history". For most of 1969 and 1970, Newsom traveled across Europe alongside former SS security service member Otto von Bolschwing (specialized in the expropriation of Jewish property) who had been brought to the U.S. by the CIA under Operation Paperclip and appointed TCI's president by Getty due to his former Nazi intelligence connections and their value in obtaining defense technology contracts. Newsom referred to von Bolschwing as "suave", "plausible", and "world weary" (he was forced to surrender his American citizenship in 1981).

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 12:18 PM (RHGPo)

272 262 Posted by: Tonypete at November 25, 2025 12:15 PM (cYBz/)

Increasingly our cities here as well, the wealth of inert dirt can be increased on the margins by a good populace but the Emerald City in all its innate majesty can be made fallow by a bad one.

Always been that way.

Posted by: sven at November 25, 2025 12:18 PM (MUJd1)

273 268 The only case if someone haggling with God, IIRC, was Abraham about Sodom.

But, then, he was Abraham.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 12:19 PM (77rzZ)

274 227 Why would anyone want to take over...Haiti?
------------------
Dirt Cookies.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 25, 2025 12:19 PM (Wg6v7)

275 The Seditious 6 tape is to show the world that Trump is powerless and to warn active duty personnel that there will be reviews of their actions after Trump leaves.
The left will not let Trump go quietly in to obscurity.

Posted by: Accomack at November 25, 2025 12:20 PM (nLdZ2)

276 I forget wich of the two main Sinaloa factions Sheinbaum works for. I think it's the Mayiza, but it doesn't particularly matter. The other one is certainly ginning up the political dissent, and she's lucky they haven't showed up with armored tacticals and machine guns. Yet.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 12:20 PM (BI5O2)

277 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 12:21 PM (77rzZ)

278 WFL Aftyn as you've never seen her before!

https://is.gd/LHQgpO
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 12:17 PM (L/fGl)

Cops should have used their night sticks. Liberally.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 12:22 PM (npFr7)

279
Bif was a warhead custodian, assigned with 17 other Army soldiers to a NATO German airforce nike hercules battery. He made the rank of sp5, and was selected to become a custodial warrant officer. Instead, the Army re-treaded Bif in the Patriot system, where he spent the next three years getting BOHICAed. If you watched cnn (i know), and scud/patriot engagements for Riyahd during the gulf war, you saw Bif in action. Bif exemplifies the the cw4 warrant officer attitude and unwillingness to play fair, but drew that skill down to the cw2 rank with a blatant fu to his chain of command from the bowling alley prior to resigning fro. The Army and doubling his salary in The MIC.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 25, 2025 12:22 PM (QVmho)

280 I'm all for taking out the corrupt, but I'm not holding breath.

Example: The Clintons.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at November 25, 2025 12:23 PM (WFC1M)

281 Diogenes, did you ever cross paths with Pete Buttigieg?
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 12:16 PM (77rzZ)


No.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2025 12:24 PM (y3bZw)

282 Thanks Diogenesis

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 25, 2025 12:29 PM (xcxpd)

283 Diogenes*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 25, 2025 12:29 PM (xcxpd)

284 Guess this writer didn't get the memo too. The left wing judges are in total control of the country. Nothing Congress or the Pres do will be allowed by judicial decree if it defy the Dems political goals

Posted by: Matthew Proctor at November 25, 2025 01:23 PM (OdsgZ)

285 "Congress Critter" is even more juvenile than "the N word".


Posted by: connected and litigious at November 25, 2025 01:40 PM (s9EN2)

286 Raises glass.

A very good rant, I agree.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Botticelli Jerome.jpg

The Last Communion of Saint Jerome
Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi)

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM




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1 Neither Blade nor Sponge
Shall keep me from my duly appointed First

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at November 25, 2025 09:30 AM (w9Wax)

2 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2025 09:30 AM (xC2Ng)

3 yow!

Posted by: cmeat at November 25, 2025 09:30 AM (R11M+)

4 Those halos that look like a plastic dish always seem weird.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 25, 2025 09:31 AM (WPL6O)

5 Nice painting but St. Jerome's head seems a little large for his body.

Posted by: Tuna at November 25, 2025 09:32 AM (lJ0H4)

6 I love the reverence and love for the Eucharist being depicted here.


Even in his last days, St Jerome kneels to receive.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 25, 2025 09:32 AM (mT+6a)

7 Is that supposed to be the same Jerome who translated the Bible into Latin?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

8 Nicely done, but then wasn't painted by some slacker in the 1940s

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 09:32 AM (M7ic3)

9 symmetrical. short guy balances two eunuchs.

Posted by: cmeat at November 25, 2025 09:32 AM (R11M+)

10 "Latin Jerome. I suggest you do it in Latin."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2025 09:32 AM (0RiMX)

11 Damned feet!

I'm hiding one of them with a rug and the others with socks!

Posted by: Botticelli at November 25, 2025 09:33 AM (w9Wax)

12 Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

Yes; Vulgate Bible.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 09:34 AM (lQ+/f)

13 Dude's got no feet!

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2025 09:34 AM (NwnyJ)

14 Word is that St. Jerome and Saint Augustine hung out a lot, drinking beer and clanking haloes.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2025 09:35 AM (0RiMX)

15 My uncle thought he was Saint Jerome.

Posted by: NYC Librarian at November 25, 2025 09:35 AM (11PJ2)

16 one chip challenge.

Posted by: cmeat at November 25, 2025 09:35 AM (R11M+)

17 Saint Jerome is the patron saint of librarians, scholars, students, and abandoned children, recognized for his contributions to biblical translation and scholarship

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2025 09:35 AM (NpAcC)

18 Dr. Peter Venkman: Have you, or any member of your family, ever been diagnosed schizophrenic...mentally incompetent?

Alice (librarian): My uncle thought he was Saint Jerome.

Dr. Peter Venkman: I'd call that a big yes.

Posted by: Ghostbusters at November 25, 2025 09:36 AM (EnKfA)

19 The thing that caught my eye was the 2nd guy from right, "Dorf"

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 09:36 AM (AOsQT)

20 I suppose this was painted when Botticelli was trying to atone for his earlier bobbed works like The Birth of Venus, under Savonarola’s influence.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 09:36 AM (77rzZ)

21 "that chrome don't get ya home, jerome."

Posted by: cmeat at November 25, 2025 09:37 AM (R11M+)

22 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)

23 Savanarola. You won't be seein' him around here no more.

*lights match*

Posted by: Clemenza at November 25, 2025 09:37 AM (0RiMX)

24 They look..............Asian.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)

25 Saint Jerome is the patron saint of librarians...

So maybe there WAS a connection with the Ghostbusters librarian!!!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 25, 2025 09:38 AM (EnKfA)

26 Like this one . Botticelli's great with colors.
Would hang, thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 09:38 AM (bfwj/)

27 that was inappropriate

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 09:38 AM (AOsQT)

28 *earlier boobed works*

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 09:38 AM (77rzZ)

29 First the cigarette, then the blindfold.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 09:38 AM (BI5O2)

30 Typical beautiful Botticelli. Nicely balanced, pleasing colors.

Posted by: Tuna at November 25, 2025 09:38 AM (lJ0H4)

31 Yet another artist that can't depict feet very well.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 09:38 AM (Zz0t1)

32 Architecture was very basic in those days.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2025 09:38 AM (0RiMX)

33 24 they aren't rushin'

Posted by: cmeat at November 25, 2025 09:38 AM (R11M+)

34 Horny ass bastard!

Soon after the death of his patron Pope Damasus I on 10 December 384, Jerome was forced to leave his position at Rome after an inquiry was brought up by the Roman clergy into allegations that he had an improper relationship with the widow Paula.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 09:39 AM (L/fGl)

35 I meant my comment
I apologize to the faithful
I admire your discipline

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 09:39 AM (AOsQT)

36 Neither Blade nor Sponge
Shall keep me from my duly appointed First
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at November 25, 2025 09:30 AM (w9Wax)


Your not being an obnoxious douche about it is appreciated.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 09:40 AM (Zz0t1)

37 So, the Bible was in Greek before it was translated into Latin. Have I got that right?

Posted by: dantesed at November 25, 2025 09:40 AM (Oy/m2)

38 37 So, the Bible was in Greek before it was translated into Latin. Have I got that right?

--------

The New Testament was.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2025 09:41 AM (0RiMX)

39 Parts of the Old Testament were believed to be originally written in Klingon.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2025 09:41 AM (0RiMX)

40 Renaissance paintings are always compelling to me. I could hang this if I had a proper library or study to display it. Alas, the Man Cave is not suitable.

But I do have a room at home that serves as an office that could be a future locale for such art.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at November 25, 2025 09:41 AM (6qf1m)

41 Soon after the death of his patron Pope Damasus I on 10 December 384, Jerome was forced to leave his position at Rome after an inquiry was brought up by the Roman clergy into allegations that he had an improper relationship with the widow Paula.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

The Paolo, he...how you say...respect.

Posted by: The Paolo at November 25, 2025 09:42 AM (EnKfA)

42

Morris Day in the deep background overheard saying "Jerome, bring me my mirror!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 25, 2025 09:42 AM (x0n13)

43 So, the Bible was in Greek before it was translated into Latin. Have I got that right?
Posted by: dantesed at November 25, 2025 09:40 AM (Oy/m2)

Yeah, like most Latin things over the centuries. Septuagint was first, then a hodgepodge of partial Latin translations, and eventually the full Vulgate.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 09:43 AM (BI5O2)

44
Morris Day in the deep background overheard saying "Jerome, bring me my mirror!"
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 25, 2025 09:42 AM (x0n13)



"COOK! Where's my hassenpfeffer?!?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 09:43 AM (Zz0t1)

45 Saint Jerome was angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at November 25, 2025 09:44 AM (XQo4F)

46 Is Jerome getting a reach around by that monk behind him? Looks suspicious.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 25, 2025 09:44 AM (g8Ew8)

47 Private US job losses continue to increase.

Can we accuse Biden? Hillary ! No it is all Obama's fault

They should all be hung

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at November 25, 2025 09:45 AM (KLQUC)

48 stalled

Posted by: cmeat at November 25, 2025 09:46 AM (R11M+)

49 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at November 25, 2025 09:45 AM (KLQUC)


You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at November 25, 2025 09:46 AM (Zz0t1)

50 Dude, 100-comment rule.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 09:47 AM (77rzZ)

51 ASS does have a point. 2nd look at ASS?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 09:47 AM (Zz0t1)

52 Nice devotional painting. I like the colors and it's nice to think of Jerome receiving the Eucharist so devoutly before he died.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 09:47 AM (ZeH0U)

53 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. I just love how they decorated with fronds!
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2025 09:48 AM (y3bZw)

54 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. I just love how they decorated with fronds!
Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2025 09:48 AM (y3bZw)


The were PINING for the fronds.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 09:49 AM (Zz0t1)

55 What's up with the goofy haircuts?

Posted by: Not a fan at November 25, 2025 09:50 AM (XQo4F)

56 vulgate deters eucharist.
but you can still smell it.

Posted by: cmeat at November 25, 2025 09:50 AM (R11M+)

57 So, the Bible was in Greek before it was translated into Latin. Have I got that right?

The Romans appeared to have had a much deeper respect for Greek culture than for Roman culture.

In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, Thomas Cahill wrote that “Contact with the impressive stories of Greek mythology and the thrilling art that accompanied them encouraged the Romans to dress up their own religion in Greek fashions. Their high God, Jupiter, they reinterpreted as a variant of Greek Zeus. Roman Venus was assigned the Greek stories about Aphrodite…”

I’d always thought it was the other way: that when the Romans conquered an area, they forced the conquered gods into Roman forms. If Cahill is right (he might not be; the book is not nearly as well written as his Irish book), it indicates an incredible degradation of Roman cultural strength.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 25, 2025 09:50 AM (olroh)

58 Why would anyone put salve on a roll anyway?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 09:50 AM (77rzZ)

59 The New Testament was.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2025 09:41 AM (0RiMX)

Old Testament, too (+ apocrypha). Greece was the entry point in the Roman Empire for both Jewish and Christian beliefs.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 09:50 AM (BI5O2)

60 It’s Tummy Rub Tuesday!

Lucy the Fink got hers! You know they want it!

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 25, 2025 09:51 AM (mT+6a)

61 55 What's up with the goofy haircuts?

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It's called an anachronism. There was no such thing as a tonsure in Jerome's day.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2025 09:51 AM (0RiMX)

62 Who told you to put the balm on?

Posted by: Jackie Chiles at November 25, 2025 09:52 AM (XQo4F)

63
Lucy the Fink got hers! You know they want it!
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 25, 2025 09:51 AM (mT+6a)


Foster will get one at some point.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 09:52 AM (Zz0t1)

64 LOL, Horde Mind never sleeps

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 25, 2025 09:52 AM (Cjt/F)

65 ~300BC The Septuagint (The Latin name for the Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures means ‘seventy,’ and comes from the idea that 70 (or 72) Jewish scholars were asked by Egyptian king Ptolemy II (who was Greek), to complete individual copies to be placed in the Library of Alexandria.)

42 – 100 AD The New Testament (There are almost 6000 Greek manuscripts of the New Testament, many are only fragments of the full text.)
For approximate dates of each New Testament book, read When Was the New Testament Written? For a list of biblical authors, read The Books of the Bible by Author.

405 AD Vulgate (Jerome of Stridon, at the request of Pope Damasus I, compiled and retranslated existing Hebrew, Aramaic, Latin, and Greek manuscripts to create a Latin Bible.)

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 25, 2025 09:52 AM (0sNs1)

66 'Last Communion'? 'Saint'? Why am I posing for this painting?

Posted by: Jerome at November 25, 2025 09:53 AM (63An5)

67 Parts of the Old Testament were believed to be originally written in Klingon.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

The Joshua kicks ass and Sampson with jawbone of an ass parts.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 09:53 AM (L/fGl)

68 I was Paul Squires?

Posted by: Rick at November 25, 2025 09:54 AM (0wVYr)

69 What's up with the goofy haircuts?


Mom's bowl had a hole in it.
Posted by: Moe Howard

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2025 09:54 AM (PDBoZ)

70 Looks like a bunch of monks sharing a joint between prayers.

Posted by: From about That Time at November 25, 2025 09:55 AM (sl73Y)

71 It was all Aramaic to me.

Posted by: The man from Galilee at November 25, 2025 09:55 AM (XQo4F)

72 405 AD Vulgate (Jerome of Stridon, at the request of Pope Damasus I, compiled and retranslated existing Hebrew, Aramaic, Latin, and Greek manuscripts to create a Latin Bible.)
Posted by: Duncanthrax


Would have been much simpler to write it in English.

Posted by: Clueless at November 25, 2025 09:56 AM (PDBoZ)

73 Looks like a bunch of monks sharing a joint between prayers.
Posted by: From about That Time at November 25, 2025 09:55 AM (sl73Y)


It's long been rumored the neanderthal man they found frozen had a bag of weed on his waist.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 09:56 AM (Zz0t1)

74 "...had a bag of weed on his waist."
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It was the style at the time.

Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at November 25, 2025 09:57 AM (XQo4F)

75 The Romans appeared to have had a much deeper respect for Greek culture than for Roman culture.

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Certainly so. The Latins of various stripes worshipped primitive, numinous deities before outright cribbing the Greek gods and using them as the basis for their civic faith.

But it wasn't just religion. Far back into the Republican period, Romans paid steep prices for Greek slaves to tutor their children, and Greek language fluency was a prerequisite for public life - Latin-only speakers were considered backcountry hillbillies.

Romans were focused on indigenous intellectual pursuits to the extent that they served the higher purposes of war and agriculture, and looked toward Greece for high-minded stuff like art and poetry and philosophy.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 09:58 AM (BI5O2)

76 It was the style at the time.
Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at November 25, 2025 09:57 AM (XQo4F)


*fistbump*

Posted by: Taylor Lorenz at November 25, 2025 09:58 AM (Zz0t1)

77 Soon after the death of his patron Pope Damasus I on 10 December 384, Jerome was forced to leave his position at Rome after an inquiry was brought up by the Roman clergy into allegations that he had an improper relationship with the widow Paula.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,

Would that be Pope Damasus' widow?

Posted by: From about That Time at November 25, 2025 09:58 AM (sl73Y)

78 Sponge, are you talking about Oetzi the Iceman? He was a modern human, not Neanderthal.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 09:59 AM (77rzZ)

79 Who told you to put the balm on?
Posted by: Jackie Chiles at November 25, 2025 09:52 AM

A bomb?!!!

Posted by: Brian's Mother at November 25, 2025 09:59 AM (kgE5c)

80 Sponge, are you talking about Oetzi the Iceman? He was a modern human, not Neanderthal.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 09:59 AM (77rzZ)


I don't know, exactly. I just remember an old pothead from my past talking about it years ago. Don't remember details.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 10:00 AM (Zz0t1)

81 Who told you to put the balm on?
Posted by: Jackie Chiles at November 25, 2025 09:52 AM

Buffalo Bill.

Posted by: The woman in the pit at November 25, 2025 10:01 AM (0sNs1)

82 St Jerome, patron of libraries, pray for us.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 25, 2025 10:01 AM (Wx316)

83 Hey, hey, Paula.
I wanna ****** you...

Posted by: Young and amorous Jerry at November 25, 2025 10:03 AM (XQo4F)

84 72, I know, right? what were they thinking?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 25, 2025 10:03 AM (Cjt/F)

85 Does the feet make sense to anyone? Look at the two sets of feet on the right. Is the monk in back a centaur? I honestly don't get it.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 10:03 AM (3uBP9)

86 Cicero bitched about the number of Greek words coming into Latin in his day.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 10:04 AM (77rzZ)

87 I heard someone, I forget who, state it well: "The Greeks lived with their heads in the clouds, and the Romans with their boots in the mud."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 10:05 AM (BI5O2)

88 Is one set of feet from the other monk off to their right, leaning?

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 10:05 AM (3uBP9)

89 Would have been much simpler to write it in English.
Posted by: Clueless at November 25, 2025 09:56 AM

There are subtleties in Greek that aren't present in English. Many Biblical scholars end up learning Greek to really appreciate Scripture.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 25, 2025 10:05 AM (0sNs1)

90 “I remember when the librarian was a much older woman: Kindly, discreet, unattractive. We didn't know anything about her private life. We didn't WANT to know anything about her private life. She didn't HAVE a private life.”

Posted by: Lieutenant Bookman, NYC Public Library cop at November 25, 2025 10:05 AM (XQo4F)

91 Don't look up "was a neanderthal found with pot".

Bing musta confuzzled cannabis with cannibal.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2025 10:05 AM (PDBoZ)

92 From what I’ve read, Jerome was pretty cantankerous. You did not want to get on his bad side.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 10:06 AM (77rzZ)

93 Sorry, but it looks like the dude's lighting Jerome's last cigarette.

Posted by: Dr_No at November 25, 2025 10:06 AM (ayRl+)

94 “I remember when the librarian was a much older woman: Kindly, discreet, unattractive. We didn't know anything about her private life. We didn't WANT to know anything about her private life. She didn't HAVE a private life.”
Posted by: Lieutenant Bookman, NYC Public Library cop at November 25, 2025 10:05 AM (XQo4F)


"GET HER!!!"

- - - - - Ray Stantz

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 10:06 AM (Zz0t1)

95 Those halos that look like a plastic dish always seem weird.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm"

I thought they were frisbees.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 10:07 AM (vFG9F)

96 92 i only know this side of him.

Posted by: cmeat at November 25, 2025 10:07 AM (R11M+)

97 I thought they were frisbees.
Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 10:07 AM (

The Ultimate Frisbee, as it were.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 10:07 AM (BI5O2)

98 The foot in the middle is wrong, appears to be a right foot when it should be the peter Loore guy's left foot.

Posted by: From about That Time at November 25, 2025 10:08 AM (sl73Y)

99 Geronimo.

Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2025 10:08 AM (LHPAg)

100 True art:
https://is.gd/WABEPq

--Quinton Tarantino

Posted by: No Name Today at November 25, 2025 10:08 AM (8mulE)

101 Jerome of Stridon, at the request of Pope Damasus I, compiled and retranslated existing Hebrew, Aramaic, Latin, and Greek manuscripts to create a Latin Bible.

We're fortunate that he asked Jerome, and not Google.

Posted by: t-bird at November 25, 2025 10:08 AM (E24OL)

102 Jump!

Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2025 10:08 AM (LHPAg)

103 Don't bogart that joint, my friend
Pass it over to me
Don't bogart that joint, my friend
Pass it over to me...

Posted by: Old Dirty Hippie at November 25, 2025 10:08 AM (1mUlr)

104 I remember when the librarian was a much older woman:

I never particularly enjoyed Seinfeld. But clips form Seinfeld are a completely different story. https://youtu.be/XzzMamksqP0

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 25, 2025 10:09 AM (olroh)

105 Jump!
Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2025 10:08 AM (LHPAg)


Might as well.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 10:09 AM (Zz0t1)

106 Jump!
Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2025 10:08 AM

To the left!

Posted by: Transylvanians at November 25, 2025 10:10 AM (0sNs1)

107 The 100 Comment Wall has been breached

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 10:10 AM (AOsQT)

108 Donna Reed was a hot librarian in It’s a Wonderful Life.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 10:10 AM (77rzZ)

109 “Yeah, '71. That was my first year on the job. Bad year for libraries. Bad year for America. Hippies burning library cards, Abbie Hoffman telling everybody to steal books. I don't judge a man by the length of his hair or the kind of music he listens to. Rock was never my bag. But you put on a pair of shoes when you walk into the New York Public Library, fella.”

Posted by: Lieutenant Bookman, NYC Public Library cop at November 25, 2025 10:10 AM (XQo4F)

110 Don't jump!

Posted by: Creepy Joe at November 25, 2025 10:11 AM (XQo4F)

111 From the previous thread…

Clyde Shelton,

You’re one of the few people here who understand the impact of h1bs. It’s not just a jobs thing it’s a culture thing too. Indians own tech and are colonizing all the tech hubs. As you posted Austin is turning into India. Large parts of Dallas are already there.

And not just tech. Consulting is another industry they’re slowly but surely taking over. Deloitte’s CEO is Indian. Good luck getting a job there as a white male.

Neither Trump nor the GOP see anything wrong with this.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 10:11 AM (HW6XE)

112 The "tonsure" noted a church position. There were 7 ordained levels.

The tonsure was so a religious would be recognized if he went to a bar or whorehouse.

Posted by: no one at November 25, 2025 10:12 AM (d6BF2)

113 Jump!
Posted by: Eromero


Go ahead and jump!

Posted by: David Lee Roth at November 25, 2025 10:12 AM (PDBoZ)

114 I heard someone, I forget who, state it well: "The Greeks lived with their heads in the clouds, and the Romans with their boots in the mud."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 10:05 AM (BI5O2)

That reminds me of an Oscar Wilde quip: "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 25, 2025 10:12 AM (ufSfZ)

115 My knees once almost gave out getting up from kneeling on marble, in front of many hundreds of people at a cathedral. I deftly grabbed onto the top of my daughter's head and used her as a cane to right myself before confidently jive walking back to my pew with abundant poise.

I only heard about eighty people gasp in terror, I was cool though.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 10:13 AM (3uBP9)

116 If I stumbled and I busted my whatchamacallit
I could lie on your floor unnoticed
Till my body had turned to carrion, madam librarian

Posted by: Bad Andrew at November 25, 2025 10:13 AM (6qf1m)

117 Shirley Jones was also a pretty decent looking librarian.

Posted by: no one at November 25, 2025 10:13 AM (d6BF2)

118 I am thinking Jerome was Catholic.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 10:14 AM (PCK5/)

119 Shirley Jones......



https://is.gd/uwhn3Q

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 10:15 AM (Zz0t1)

120 117 Shirley Jones was also a pretty decent looking librarian.
Posted by: no one at November 25, 2025 10:13 AM (d6BF2)
So is SiD.

Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2025 10:15 AM (LHPAg)

121 There are subtleties in Greek that aren't present in English. Many Biblical scholars end up learning Greek to really appreciate Scripture.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 25, 2025 10:05 AM (0sNs1)

That's why it is important to study Scripture, not just read it.

For example - do some digging on "no room at the inn" as it relates to the story of Christmas. Luke wasn't talking about a hotel!!! Also, thee is no direct reference to a stable/barn. Manger, yes - but not a stable.

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2025 10:16 AM (Ltmlv)

122 You know what this painting needs? A flyin' green dildo. It needs a flying green dildo!

Posted by: Flyin' Green Dildo at November 25, 2025 10:17 AM (DDJSl)

123 You know what this painting needs? A flyin' green dildo. It needs a flying green dildo!
Posted by: Flyin' Green Dildo at November 25, 2025 10:17 AM (DDJSl)


Why? There are no nappy headed ho's playing basketball.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 10:17 AM (Zz0t1)

124 Donna Reed was a hot librarian in It’s a Wonderful Life.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 10:10 AM (77rzZ)


I'd let her show me the Natural Sciences section.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2025 10:18 AM (y3bZw)

125 For example - do some digging on "no room at the inn" as it relates to the story of Christmas. Luke wasn't talking about a hotel!!! Also, thee is no direct reference to a stable/barn. Manger, yes - but not a stable.
Posted by: Doof


Damn you Tom Bodett!

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2025 10:18 AM (PDBoZ)

126

Damn you Tom Bodett!
Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2025 10:18 AM (PDBoZ)


There were no lights.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 10:19 AM (Zz0t1)

127 114 chrissy hinde

Posted by: cmeat at November 25, 2025 10:19 AM (R11M+)

128 The Last Communion of Saint Jerome
Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi)

The Last Communion of Saint Jerome is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli, finished around 1494–1495. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City. (Wikipedia, in part.)

I'm always astounded at the beauty within the body of works done by the great artists of so many centuries ago.

Yes, I'd hang for the (children) 'lesson.'

Thanks.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at November 25, 2025 10:19 AM (NFX2v)

129 The guys in the painting don't look anything like the Sedition Six.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2025 10:20 AM (y3bZw)

130 When a woman's got a husband, and you've got none, why should she take advice from you? Even if you can quote Balzac and Shakespeare and all them other high-falutin' Greeks.

Posted by: Mrs. Paroo at November 25, 2025 10:20 AM (wVcYX)

131 Is sanity breaking out?

NFL’s First Transgender Cheerleader Makes Claim About Panthers Departure: “I Was Cut Because I’m Trans”

Shocking: Report Finds Locking Up Criminals Reduces Crime

U.S. Bishops Vote To Prohibit Trans Surgeries, Hormone Treatment In Catholic Hospitals

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 10:21 AM (L/fGl)

132 Jesus was most likely born in a house, just the part of the house where they kept the livestock.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 10:21 AM (77rzZ)

133 chrissy hinde
Posted by: cmeat at November 25, 2025 10:19 AM (R11M+)


Her dad had to tell her to lighten up and allow Rush Limbaugh to use his show theme.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 10:21 AM (Zz0t1)

134 There were no lights.
Posted by: Sponge


Golf clap.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2025 10:21 AM (PDBoZ)

135 Why? There are no nappy headed ho's playing basketball.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
-------------------------

There will be at the stuper-bowl though. And I'll be coming in hot and hard! HOT AND HARD!!

Posted by: Flyin' Green Dildo at November 25, 2025 10:21 AM (DDJSl)

136 Jesus was most likely born in a house, just the part of the house where they kept the livestock.
Posted by: Bulg


So THAT'S where "were you born in a barn?" comes from!

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2025 10:22 AM (PDBoZ)

137 OK Jerry, you blew a 1.05. Book him for DUI!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 25, 2025 10:22 AM (0+SyD)

138 Dorothy Malone was a hot bookseller in The Big Sleep

https://shorturl.at/VRTI4

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 10:22 AM (AOsQT)

139 >>> NFL’s First Transgender Cheerleader Makes Claim About Panthers Departure: “I Was Cut Because I’m Trans”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 10:21 AM (L/fGl)


a little snip here, a little snip there

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 10:23 AM (3uBP9)

140
Shocking: Report Finds Locking Up Criminals Reduces Crime

-

I chuckled. Then realized the real joke is that we need a study like this.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 10:23 AM (HW6XE)

141 There are no nappy headed ho's playing basketball.

-
Michael Porter Jr. sparked controversy by claiming that a team of elite eighth-grade boys could defeat WNBA All-Stars. The controversy got amped up a bit when WNBA star Sophie Cunningham seemingly agreed.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 10:23 AM (L/fGl)

142 I just saw an Australian lady call Greta "the Swedish doom goblin." Tough, but fair.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 10:23 AM (BI5O2)

143 When a woman's got a husband, and you've got none, why should she take advice from you? Even if you can quote Balzac and Shakespeare and all them other high-falutin' Greeks.
Posted by: Mrs. Paroo


Because sometimes, you CAN be the poster child for not what to do.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2025 10:24 AM (PDBoZ)

144 Jesus was most likely born in a house, just the part of the house where they kept the livestock.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 10:21 AM (77rzZ)

This is what my studies have taught as well (a home / dwelling of some sort). Also that the number of magi (wise men) is not specified. Tradition attributes 3 because of the number of gifts mentioned.

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2025 10:24 AM (Ltmlv)

145 That link might be questionable

skip it
I don't know what happened there

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 10:24 AM (AOsQT)

146 “I Was Cut Because I’m Trans”

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Yeah, that's how that works.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 10:24 AM (BI5O2)

147 Yeah, Shirley Jones in The Music Man was something else.

She was pregnant when she made that, which probably made her extra-dewy.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 10:25 AM (77rzZ)

148 chrissy hinde
Posted by: cmeat at November 25, 2025 10:19 AM (R11M+)


Her dad had to tell her to lighten up and allow Rush Limbaugh to use his show theme.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 10:21 AM (Zz0t1)

After 9/11, she screamed during a concert, "Hit us again! We deserve it!"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 25, 2025 10:25 AM (ufSfZ)

149 After 9/11, she screamed during a concert, "Hit us again! We deserve it!"
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 25, 2025 10:25 AM (ufSfZ)


Such a shame. Insufferable twat.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 10:26 AM (Zz0t1)

150 Cheerleader was HIRED because of being trans. He (yes, HE) was cut because he was awful.

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2025 10:26 AM (Ltmlv)

151 You guys are missing Shirley Jones in Elmer Gantry

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 10:26 AM (AOsQT)

152 I just saw an Australian lady call Greta "the Swedish doom goblin." Tough, but fair.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Her latest climate alarm stunt of pouring green dye in canals got her evicted and banned from Venice.

Posted by: Tuna at November 25, 2025 10:26 AM (lJ0H4)

153 The Magi didn’t come along until Jesus was about 2.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 10:26 AM (77rzZ)

154 That reminds me of an Oscar Wilde quip: "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 25, 2025 10:12 AM (ufSfZ)

Chrissy Hynde liked the line.
https://is.gd/MIlht2

Posted by: No Name Today at November 25, 2025 10:27 AM (8mulE)

155 >>“I Was Cut Because I’m Trans”

Are we talking from the cheerleader squad or the other kind of cut?

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2025 10:27 AM (viF8m)

156 133 proceeds to peta.

Posted by: cmeat at November 25, 2025 10:28 AM (R11M+)

157 >>“I Was Cut Because I’m Trans”

Are we talking from the cheerleader squad or the other kind of cut?
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Either or.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2025 10:28 AM (NwnyJ)

158 Jerome's letters are full of insults, yes. Even Augustine got slapped around. Augustine was a good deal more tolerant of Jerome, probably because by then everyone accepted that Jerome was Jerome and wasn't going to change.
I bet that widow controversy was just cooked up so his enemies had something to tag on him. There's hints he swung the other way when he was younger.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 25, 2025 10:28 AM (HC9wC)

159 Many Biblical scholars end up learning Greek to really appreciate Scripture.

==

They should try original Hebrew to really appreciate 2/3 of it!

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2025 10:28 AM (g47mK)

160 In Bethlehem, there are caves. Old caves. They were used as shelter for livestock.

By the time the Wise Men came along, Jesus, Mary, and Joseph were in a house.

Posted by: no one at November 25, 2025 10:29 AM (d6BF2)

161 I hope the tranny sues and wins a lot of money. You got in bed with them NFL, now you own it.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 10:30 AM (HW6XE)

162 "They should try original Hebrew to really appreciate 2/3 of it!

St. Jerome was learned in Hebrew and Greek and Aramaic.

Posted by: no one at November 25, 2025 10:30 AM (d6BF2)

163 Ban country music!

Democrat Aftyn Behn bizarrely tries to walk back her comments saying she "hates" Nashville and country music.

"I do not hate country music, I was conceived after a George Strait concert."

-
P.S. Aftyn on police stations:

https://is.gd/tkTzCq

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 10:30 AM (L/fGl)

164 They should try original Hebrew to really appreciate 2/3 of it!

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2025 10:28 AM (g47mK)

Or Aramaic!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2025 10:30 AM (n9ltV)

165 I just saw an Australian lady call Greta "the Swedish doom goblin." Tough, but fair.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice


Knowing Australia, they'll arrest her and put her in the slammer next to the Aussie senator who wore a berka into the senate.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2025 10:30 AM (y3bZw)

166 Bulg! Been meaning to ask. How is the Postal orientation going?

Posted by: Common Tater at November 25, 2025 10:30 AM (qQhFt)

167 148 "us?" ex- pat.

Posted by: cmeat at November 25, 2025 10:31 AM (R11M+)

168 I just saw an Australian lady call Greta "the Swedish doom goblin." Tough, but fair.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

How daaaaare you!!

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 10:31 AM (HW6XE)

169 St. Jerome was learned in Hebrew and Greek and Aramaic.

Posted by: no one at November 25, 2025 10:30 AM (d6BF2)

that is the way

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2025 10:31 AM (g47mK)

170
Brian's mother: Who are you?
Wise Man #2: We are three wise men.
Brian's mother: What?
Wise Man #1: We are three wise men.
Brian's mother: Well, what are you doing creeping around a cow shed at two o'clock in the morning? That doesn't sound very wise to me.
Wise Man #1: We were led by a star.
Brian's mother: Led by a bottle, more like.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 25, 2025 10:31 AM (wVcYX)

171 You haven't experienced the Book of Judges unless you've read it in the original Klingon.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 25, 2025 10:31 AM (HC9wC)

172 Seems important.

>>Ukraine reportedly agrees to U.S.-brokered peace proposal

https://tinyurl.com/h7xkz5xs

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2025 10:32 AM (viF8m)

173 Bulg! Been meaning to ask. How is the Postal orientation going?
Posted by: Common Tater at November 25, 2025 10:30 AM (qQhFt)


Learning how to go postal?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 10:32 AM (Zz0t1)

174 Speaking of Oz, it went unreported here of course but they had a Save Australia Day over there recently with hundreds of thousands in the street marching against immigration.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 10:32 AM (HW6XE)

175 167 Tater, I decided to postpone it for now. Too much else going on in my life right now.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 10:33 AM (77rzZ)

176 169 St. Jerome was learned in Hebrew and Greek and Aramaic.

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I barely got learned in English.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2025 10:33 AM (0RiMX)

177
"I do not hate country music, I was conceived after a George Strait concert."



Seems daddy forgot mommy has a face for a reason.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 10:33 AM (Zz0t1)

178 @13/Martini Farmer: "Dude's got no feet!"

And now I'm seeing the nearly legless short zombie next to the ambulance in "Return of the Living Dead".

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 25, 2025 10:33 AM (O7YUW)

179 IIRC Jerome left the Psalms in the original old-latin translation from the Septuagint, but that's okay because the Septuagint did a proper translation from the Psalms.
The Septuagint gets a deservedly bad rap for some of its translations, and although its translation from the Torah is good it's from a tweaked neoTorah like the Samaritans were using (and still use).
But the Psalms were legit so Jerome left them alone.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 25, 2025 10:34 AM (PmqH/)

180 But the Psalms were legit so Jerome left them alone.
Posted by: gKWVE at November 25, 2025 10:34 AM (PmqH

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Kind of like a director using stock footage for parts of the film.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2025 10:35 AM (0RiMX)

181 After 9/11, she screamed during a concert, "Hit us again! We deserve it!"
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression)

Then she went back to Ohio and her city was gone.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 10:36 AM (L/fGl)

182 Tradition attributes 3 because of the number of gifts mentioned.

There are four gifts. Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme.

Posted by: J-L P at November 25, 2025 10:36 AM (E24OL)

183 A senior House Republican predicts that more "explosive early resignations are coming" after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-Ga.) surprise announcement
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If true - chalk another one up for me.

They've all been paid off or threatened of both. The idea is to hand the House to the Dems who couldn't win it otherwise, just like in 18.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 10:36 AM (E0p3T)

184 Biblical translation is the pinnacle of translation.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 10:36 AM (77rzZ)

185 All politicians lie. I'm guessing Miss Aftyn was actually a butt-baby conceived in the alley behind a gay bar where a Boy George cover band was playing, and this is just a sad attempt to cover up her unconventional ass-gestation from voters. It's also why she says men can birth. She knows the nauseating truth.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 10:37 AM (BI5O2)

186 181 was that around the time she "shot her mouth off?"

Posted by: cmeat at November 25, 2025 10:37 AM (R11M+)

187 Kind of like a director using stock footage for parts of the film.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

Also the Latin Psalms were too familiar to Latin-speaking Jews and Christians. Changing those up for the sake of changing them would have pissed everyone off.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 25, 2025 10:38 AM (PmqH/)

188 The problem with the Septuagint was its inclusion of the Apocryphal books, which were not in the Masoretic Text.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 10:39 AM (77rzZ)

189 This piece is marvelously rendered. St Jerome's supplication is tangible.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 10:39 AM (A0sqA)

190 I have an uncle who thinks he is St. Jerome.

Posted by: Library lady who saw a ghost at November 25, 2025 10:39 AM (YGRGv)

191 NFL’s First Transgender Cheerleader Makes Claim About Panthers Departure: “I Was Cut Because I’m Trans”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 10:21 AM (L/fGl)

I bet he was hired in the first place because he was trans and later cut because he was a nutcase and a drama queen.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at November 25, 2025 10:40 AM (FMtrg)

192 Many Biblical scholars end up learning Greek to really appreciate Scripture.

==

They should try original Hebrew to really appreciate 2/3 of it!
Posted by: runner at November 25, 2025 10:28 AM (g47mK)

This!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 25, 2025 10:41 AM (g8Ew8)

193 Something I've often wondered: Given that Saint Jerome is a Super Famous Christian (a Doctor of the Church, no less), how did "Jerome" become such a stereotypically Jewish name?

Saint Jerome wasn't even a Jewish convert. He was of Balkan ancestry.

Even naming a Jewish kid Jesus would seem less weird, since that name is at least of Hebrew ancestry (derived from Joshua).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 25, 2025 10:41 AM (IG3/x)

194 Translate this.......


https://is.gd/Yv0ZXL

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 10:41 AM (Zz0t1)

195 Had a trick-or-treater come by on Halloween who was dressed as St. Francis of Assisi.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 10:41 AM (77rzZ)

196 Nice work

Posted by: Archer at November 25, 2025 10:41 AM (YGRGv)

197 “I Was Cut Because I’m Trans”

Sorry, no refunds!

Posted by: Genital Mutilations Done Dirt Cheap at November 25, 2025 10:41 AM (XFXIk)

198 188 The problem with the Septuagint was its inclusion of the Apocryphal books, which were not in the Masoretic Text.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 10:39 AM (77rzZ
Geneva Bible.

Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2025 10:42 AM (LHPAg)

199 169 St. Jerome was learned in Hebrew and Greek and Aramaic.

Posted by: no one at November 25, 2025 10:30 AM (d6BF2)

that is the way
Posted by: runner at November 25, 2025 10:31 AM (g47mK)

I’m learned in American Ozark, Spanglish, and Big Box Store French…

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 10:42 AM (PCK5/)

200 Meh, Sirach came close to being in the MT. The Talmud cites it.
Tobit's the book I'd rather the Christians had left in those caves, like the Masoretes had done.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 25, 2025 10:42 AM (PmqH/)

201 Speaking of Oz . . .

Variety@Variety
Why Does 'The Wizard of Oz' Still Cast Such a Wicked Spell? Because It's the Movie That First Flipped the Patriarchy on Its Head

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Dorothy wanted the Wizard to give her an abortion.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 10:42 AM (L/fGl)

202 IIRC Jerome left the Psalms in the original old-latin translation from the Septuagint, but that's okay because the Septuagint did a proper translation from the Psalms.

I grew up on the Douay-Rheims translation, so that's always been my go-to.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 25, 2025 10:43 AM (ufSfZ)

203 “I Was Cut Because I’m Trans”



The team simply needs to post a rebuttal stating that no, HE wasn't cut for his decision to pretend to be a woman, HE was cut because he couldn't perform up to the standards of the team and the ladies were tired of a swinging dick in the locker room.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 10:43 AM (Zz0t1)

204 I saw Gay Bar Butt Babies open for the Circle Jerks and the Butthole Surfers at a warehouse show in LA back in '79.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 25, 2025 10:43 AM (IG3/x)

205 the Movie That First Flipped the Patriarchy on Its Head

It's all so tiresome.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 25, 2025 10:44 AM (PmqH/)

206 I recommend “ Bridging the Testaments” by George Athas. Covers those 400 years pretty thoroughly from several angles.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 10:44 AM (PCK5/)

207 I’m learned in American Ozark, Spanglish, and Big Box Store French…
Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 10:42 AM (PCK5/)

that explains everything !

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2025 10:44 AM (g47mK)

208 A senior House Republican predicts that more "explosive early resignations are coming" after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-Ga.) surprise announcement
-—----

If true - chalk another one up for me.

They've all been paid off or threatened of both. The idea is to hand the House to the Dems who couldn't win it otherwise, just like in 18.
Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 10:36 AM (E0p3T)

I'll wait and see. I don't trust anonymous "they said" predictions.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 25, 2025 10:44 AM (g8Ew8)

209 the Movie That First Flipped the Patriarchy on Its Head

It's all so tiresome.
Posted by: gKWVE at November 25, 2025 10:44 AM (PmqH/)


Woman defeats woman with the help of multiple men.

How does that defeat the patriarchy again?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 10:44 AM (Zz0t1)

210 Why Does 'The Wizard of Oz' Still Cast Such a Wicked Spell? Because It's the Movie That First Flipped the Patriarchy on Its Head
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Yeah, that's what it is, you schizos.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 10:45 AM (E0p3T)

211 There are four gifts. Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme.
Posted by: J-L P

Plus a lime and a coconut.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 10:45 AM (L/fGl)

212 207 I’m learned in American Ozark, Spanglish, and Big Box Store French…
Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 10:42 AM (PCK5/)

that explains everything !
Posted by: runner at November 25, 2025 10:44 AM (g47mK)

You still like me though, right? Right?????

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 10:45 AM (PCK5/)

213 200 I did not know that. Thanks!

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 10:45 AM (77rzZ)

214 I'll wait and see. I don't trust anonymous "they said" predictions.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 25, 2025 10:44 AM (g8Ew

I don't either (which is why I said if true). But I trust my own instincts.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 10:45 AM (E0p3T)

215 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 10:42 AM (L/fGl)

When everything is about patriarchy nothing is.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 10:46 AM (1Vo6X)

216 > 205 the Movie That First Flipped the Patriarchy on Its Head

It's all so tiresome.
Posted by: gKWVE at November 25, 2025 10:44 AM (PmqH/)

What, you don't like things that are "stunning" and "brave"?

Oddly, being "stunning" and "brave" never seems to involve challenging Islam.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 25, 2025 10:47 AM (IG3/x)

217 > Why Does 'The Wizard of Oz' Still Cast Such a Wicked Spell?
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it's those damned flying monkeys

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 10:47 AM (AOsQT)

218 @212, tubal, you are very special !

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2025 10:47 AM (g47mK)

219 193 Something I've often wondered: Given that Saint Jerome is a Super Famous Christian (a Doctor of the Church, no less), how did "Jerome" become such a stereotypically Jewish name?


I read somewhere that immigrant Jews, as a way of assimilating in the late 19th/early 20th century named their kids using the English names fashionable at the time. That's how Arthur, Howard, Jerome, etc. became known as Jewish names.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at November 25, 2025 10:48 AM (0bjKf)

220 A senior House Republican predicts that more "explosive early resignations are coming" after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-Ga.) surprise announcement

Oh, no! Anyways...

They severely overestimate our love for them.

Posted by: t-bird at November 25, 2025 10:48 AM (XFXIk)

221 Anyone here read The Wizard of Oz, Ozma of Oz??

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 10:48 AM (PCK5/)

222 Huh. Jerome is the Francophone corruption of the Greek name Hieronymous. Geronimo is the Spansish version.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 10:49 AM (BI5O2)

223 A senior House Republican predicts that more "explosive early resignations are coming" after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-Ga.) surprise announcement

Oh, no! Anyways...

They severely overestimate our love for them.

Hell, most of us here would be thrilled if they were set on fire on their way out the door.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2025 10:50 AM (Riz8t)

224 218 @212, tubal, you are very special !
Posted by: runner at November 25, 2025 10:47 AM (g47mK)

Et toi aussi!

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 10:50 AM (PCK5/)

225 Don’t a lot of Jews still have two different names, a Hebrew one and a non-Hebrew one, like Saul/Paul?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 10:50 AM (77rzZ)

226 Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus !

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2025 10:50 AM (g47mK)

227 Nice colors in today's art but those monks look like they're going to kill him when he's done.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 25, 2025 10:51 AM (xcxpd)

228 225 Don’t a lot of Jews still have two different names, a Hebrew one and a non-Hebrew one, like Saul/Paul?
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 10:50 AM (77rzZ)

Well, sorting out the Johns and Marys can be vexing.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 10:51 AM (PCK5/)

229 225 Don’t a lot of Jews still have two different names, a Hebrew one and a non-Hebrew one, like Saul/Paul?
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 10:50 AM (77rzZ)

I think that was a Jesus things, giving people new names, new identities, new life...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 25, 2025 10:51 AM (xcxpd)

230 it's those damned flying monkeys
Posted by: Don Black
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Are you sure they were monkeys?

Posted by: Flyin' Green Dildo at November 25, 2025 10:51 AM (DDJSl)

231 222 Hieronymus?

That’s Bosch!

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 10:52 AM (77rzZ)

232 Why Does 'The Wizard of Oz' Still Cast Such a Wicked Spell?
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it's those damned flying monkeys
Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 10:47 AM (AOsQT)

It's the poppy field. Makes ya feel real good.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 25, 2025 10:52 AM (g8Ew8)

233 Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus !

His name is my name, too!

Posted by: John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt at November 25, 2025 10:52 AM (ufSfZ)

234 Hell, most of us here would be thrilled if they were set on fire on their way out the door.

However, this could make things interesting. He's got to be better at selling our side than the rest of those mooks, and we'd know he's just a whore for whatever needs selling - just like the rest of them - but he's good at it.

The 'ShamWow guy' is running for Congress in Texas

https://is.gd/5mbGIi

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2025 10:52 AM (Riz8t)

235 Hell, most of us here would be thrilled if they were set on fire on their way out the door.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2025 10:50 AM (Riz8t)

Yes. If it's done before they're outside, it might light up the whole g-ddamned building and take out the rest of them, too.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 10:53 AM (BI5O2)

236 222 Huh. Jerome is the Francophone corruption of the Greek name Hieronymous. Geronimo is the Spansish version.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 10:49 AM (BI5O2)

Yelling “ Hieronymous” when out the door skydiving never caught on I guess.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 10:53 AM (PCK5/)

237 > Why Does 'The Wizard of Oz' Still Cast Such a Wicked Spell?


You got 2 witches and a frigging wizard. What do you expect?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 25, 2025 10:54 AM (snZF9)

238 When I said Delarosa could use some more lip filler I did not mean with lead.
Lead is gor low riders.

Posted by: Operator Error at November 25, 2025 10:54 AM (rGPrJ)

239 Yeshua, Joshua, Jesus, all equivalent, yes?

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 10:54 AM (PCK5/)

240 Republicans who are resigning are doing so to help Democrats. They are playing for the other team.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at November 25, 2025 10:54 AM (FMtrg)

241 Don’t a lot of Jews still have two different names, a Hebrew one and a non-Hebrew one, like Saul/Paul?
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Reminds me of baptismal stories when I was a kid where parents were struggling to find saint's names for the official rites. Nancy, Donna, Peggy, Dottie, Patty, etc. were NOT saint names.

Lotsa Mary.

Posted by: mustbequantum at November 25, 2025 10:55 AM (WiQPM)

242 Those Munchkins always seemed pretty well-fed and prosperous. The Wicked Witch of the East kinda sucked at the evil overlord thing.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 10:56 AM (77rzZ)

243 241
Reminds me of baptismal stories when I was a kid where parents were struggling to find saint's names for the official rites. Nancy, Donna, Peggy, Dottie, Patty, etc. were NOT saint names.

Lotsa Mary.
Posted by: mustbequantum at November 25, 2025 10:55 AM (WiQPM)

Well, there IS Something About Mary.
…… I’ll go stand over here.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 10:56 AM (PCK5/)

244 Yeshua, Joshua, Jesus, all equivalent, yes?
Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 10:54 AM (PCK5/)

Si.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 25, 2025 10:56 AM (g8Ew8)

245 Lotsa Mary.
Posted by: mustbequantum
------------------

A whole lotta' Rosie

Posted by: Zombie Bon Scott at November 25, 2025 10:57 AM (DDJSl)

246 Let me see if I remember correctly, Jews were forced to take names understandable to the locals under whose jurisdiction they lived. And adopt last names, because they did not have that "designation". For instance, in ancient times dwellings had depictions and flags to distinguish them from their neighbors. "Go to he house with a scorpion on the shield, then turn left". Anyway, take last name Adler. Means Eagle in German. Probably lived in a house that had an eagle depicted on it.

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2025 10:57 AM (g47mK)

247 I'll wait and see. I don't trust anonymous "they said" predictions.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 25, 2025 10:44 AM (g8Ew
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They said you'd say that.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 25, 2025 10:57 AM (IBQGV)

248 Don’t a lot of Jews still have two different names, a Hebrew one and a non-Hebrew one, like Saul/Paul?
=====

Jerome / Jeroboam

Posted by: Operator Error at November 25, 2025 10:57 AM (rGPrJ)

249 Alternative interpretation of TWOO:


Dorothy and her crew represent the forces of laissez-faire classic liberalism (no connection to what is called "liberalism" today), defeating both the Stalinist/Maoist leftist personality cult of the Wicked Witch and the traditional society based on the notion of "nobility", represented by the fraudulent wizard.

It should be noted that in the original book, the magic slippers were silver (a metaphor for money), not ruby as in the film.

I suspect the change to ruby slippersbwas made just to show off their newfangled color photography.

I'm old enough to remember when television announcers would note at the beginning of the film that the Kansas scenes were in black and white while the Oz scenes were in color, just so people wouldn't think something was wrong with their sets.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 25, 2025 10:58 AM (IG3/x)

250 2 nights in a row sleeping like crap.

I need a nap......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 10:58 AM (Zz0t1)

251 Do not see a lot of Ahab or Jezebel as baby names.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 10:58 AM (PCK5/)

252 Do not see a lot of Ahab or Jezebel as baby names.
Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 10:58 AM (PCK5/)


The most popular name in the world is moohamhead.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 10:59 AM (Zz0t1)

253 250 2 nights in a row sleeping like crap.

I need a nap......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 10:58 AM (Zz0t1)

Broken sleep, or not falling asleep?

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 10:59 AM (PCK5/)

254
Broken sleep, or not falling asleep?
Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 10:59 AM (PCK5/)


All of the above.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 10:59 AM (Zz0t1)

255 Many Jazmine, Jasmine. Comes from Jazz. Which is ...Jezebel music!

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2025 10:59 AM (g47mK)

256
Do not see a lot of Ahab or Jezebel as baby names.
Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 10:58 AM (PCK5/)

Yet, you do see Delilah, which is a headscratcher.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 11:00 AM (BI5O2)

257 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 11:00 AM (Zz0t1)

258 When my Mom worked as a nurse at U.-Mich. hospital, one black woman who gave birth there named her baby girl “Queen Esther.”

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 11:00 AM (77rzZ)

259 254
Broken sleep, or not falling asleep?
Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 10:59 AM (PCK5/)


All of the above.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 10:59 AM (Zz0t1)

Ugh. Sorry bro. Get a copy of Systematic Theology by Louis Berkhof and read it in bed.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 11:01 AM (PCK5/)

260 Jerome / Jeroboam

I could go for a jeroboam of Veuve Cliquot right about now.

Posted by: John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt at November 25, 2025 11:02 AM (ufSfZ)

261
nood

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 25, 2025 11:03 AM (tljrc)

262 > names understandable to the locals under whose jurisdiction they lived. And adopt last names, because they did not have that "designation".

Old joke:

Often the German officials would Jews demeaning name unless they were bribed.

Two Jews are returning from being assigned their new "family names".

Moshe: "So, what did he give you?"
Yitzhak: "Schweiss."
Moshe: "Schweiss? That's a stupid name. Couldn't you bribe him to get something better?"
Yitzhak: "It cost everything I had just to get the W'."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 25, 2025 11:05 AM (IG3/x)

263 @249 the magic slippers were silver (a metaphor for money)

What did you think "Oz." stood for?
The Baum story was an extended allegory of the bimetallism debate. There's a fair chance the Wizard is WJ Bryan.

The whole series was taken as pretty heavy business in politics, until the F.o.D. came along and fruited it up.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 25, 2025 11:27 AM (zdLoL)

The Morning Report — 11/25/25

AftynGoya.jpg

Good morning kids. whatever you may think about Marjorie Taylor-Greene as a politician, a person and as a purported supporter/standard bearer and soldier of the MAGA movement or an opponent of the self-destructive trajectory we have been on for decades, her announcement of her intention to not run for office come the midterms, regardless of her personal animus towards or even rivalry with or jealousy of President Trump destroys whatever credibility she might have had. Personally, over time this move just cements my impression of her as a self-serving grandstanding fraud. Her ineffectiveness notwithstanding, leaving a House seat vulnerable for the Democrats to pick off come the midterms is a stab in the back and a boot stomp to the face of the American people.

So, MTG is an egomaniacal attention whore sellout. But what of this?!

A senior House Republican predicts that more "explosive early resignations are coming" after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-Ga.) surprise announcement that she would leave Congress in January. . . It’s unknown which Republicans are currently pondering resignation, but a feeling that legislators' needs are being neglected by party leadership and an inability to pass legislation has led some to consider quitting, as they expect the GOP to lose its already slim majority in Congress.


Yeah, unnamed sources etc. etc., I get it. It could all be disinformatsiya to sow dissent and confusion, especially with the base in the coming year before a crucial midterm. And yet the GOP itself has been having an identity crisis ever since President Trump descended the golden Trump Tower escalator just over a decade ago now.

Even before then, it was painfully evident that all the GOP was good for whenever they controlled the majority if not all three branches of government was being seat warmers for the Democrats and never daring to lift a finger to reverse one iota of their agenda let alone slam on the brakes and put the crazy train in reverse. Years of Continuing Resolutions and no budgets and nothing but platitudes about shrinking the government with maybe a minor window dressing of a tax cut here and there merely proves the GOP to be Grifting Oleaginous Parasites.


What Does The Republican Party Even Stand For? — Unlike Democrats, Republicans have no unified vision of what they view as success for the country —

While Americans continue to grapple with high costs of living and an increasingly broken health care system — both products of reckless government intervention — your Republican House majority decided to expend what little “low t” energy it has on a useless resolution that basically says, “SOCIALISM IS BAD!”
. . . But Friday’s vote was hardly the first do-nothing dog-and-pony show Republicans have put on for their constituents. For years, GOP politicos have graced the airwaves of Fox News and conservative media, telling voters what they want to hear about the issues of the day while simultaneously doing absolutely nothing of substance to address them.
During the 2024 election cycle, Republicans promised a generational “America First” reformation that would reshape political governance as we know it. And now, 10 months into GOP trifecta control of the federal government, this “generational change” has amounted to little more than a tax bill, which many Republicans seem to believe is enough to keep them in power next year. . . For all of their alleged opposition to Democrats, too many Republicans agree with Democrats on several substantive issues and support more government involvement in areas where it has no business being. For all intents and purposes, the current GOP is a party comprised of various ideological factions, disillusioned as to what “America First” actually means.

BINGO, that last sentence. The GOP is only there to preseve, protect and defend their place at the trough. MTG and whoever else can piss and moan about President Trump or whatever, but that they have essentially done nothing to actually legislate his agenda to make it the law of the land speaks volumes.

Well, there's treason/insurrection and sedition and then there's Mark Kelly and his ilk essentialy egging on the military to rise up and overthrow the government

And we also have the mortal threat of Islam and uncontrolled immigraion/cum invasion as we now see on full display with the hardly shocking if not terrifying implications of what the Somali parasites have done and are doing in Minnesota.

And then there's the utterly detestable scumbag Jamie Raskin who proves himself to be a glittering jewel of stupidity with this statement:

Monday on CNN’s “The Situation Room,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) dismissed Delegate Stacey Plaskett’s (D-VI) text message exchange with Jeffrey Epstein during a House hearing because he said Republican lawmakers text with President Donald Trump.

Congratulations genius. Brilliant move! In trying to equate Epstein with Trump to paint the latter as a reprobate pedophile, etc. all Raskin did was proclaim Epstein to be at the highest level of Democrat party leadership!

That right there is a campaign ad that almost writes itself, except for the fact that the GOP is the GOP as I bemoaned above.

And as for the Democrats, this one just says it all about who and what they are:

Tennessee Dem Candidate Aftyn Behn: ‘I Don’t Want Children. I Want Power!’

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ESPONJA!!1!!1!11!

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 25, 2025 07:38 AM (tljrc)

5 Morning report. Best part of the day.

Posted by: Get out of my fucking shot at November 25, 2025 07:39 AM (jZ3ZM)

6 Top 10! Go me!

Posted by: NR Pax at November 25, 2025 07:39 AM (svLOV)

7 MTG bailing out shows her true nature. F'n knt.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 07:39 AM (vFG9F)

8 Better if the summer soldier Republicans go than sit in the House sabotaging everything by siding with Democrats.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2025 07:40 AM (+k/kq)

9 The reason the socialists are gaining is because they are the only ones offering an alternative to the status quo. It's a shitty alternative. And it will only make things worse. But it's the only one on offer.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 25, 2025 07:40 AM (19hRK)

10 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 07:40 AM (ExV1e)

11 Ms Behn, Lady MacBeth with the super crazy eyes.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2025 07:40 AM (+k/kq)

12 Report: White House to Unveil Healthcare Framework to Lower Costs

That is Populism, Right There.

Can we all say $40T in debt before the end of 2026?
$50T by the end of 2027?

Gen-Z, you have no idea how fucked you are.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 07:41 AM (a4flb)

13 The Somali Takeover Of Minneapolis Is Worse Than We Thought

Which is one reason why Shiloh Hendrix is about to go on trial for speaking the Wakandan Holy Word because she objected to having things stolen from her.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 25, 2025 07:41 AM (svLOV)

14 "Founder of 'America First' AIPAC Tracker Is Self-Proclaimed Marxist Who Lives in Germany"

A German who hates Jews? The list of things I have seen now includes everything.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 25, 2025 07:42 AM (19hRK)

15 It appears that Behn’s mother is just as creepy as her wine-box daughter.

Posted by: Get out of my fucking shot at November 25, 2025 07:42 AM (jZ3ZM)

16 For all of their alleged opposition to Democrats, too many Republicans agree with Democrats on several substantive issues and support more government involvement in areas where it has no business being. For all intents and purposes, the current GOP is a party comprised of various ideological factions, disillusioned as to what “America First” actually means.

the current GOP is a party comprised of various ideological factions, disillusioned as to what that do not believe “America First” actually means works.

fixt it

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 25, 2025 07:43 AM (gbOdA)

17 BINGO, that last sentence. The GOP is only there to preseve, protect and defend their place at the trough.
——-

Democrats F&@k everything up. Republicans make sure it stays that way.

It ain’t called the “Uniparty” for nothing

Posted by: Common Tater at November 25, 2025 07:43 AM (VlVje)

18 > For all intents and purposes, the current GOP is a party comprised of various ideological factions, disillusioned as to what “America First” actually means.
----

I've been saying this for years
the Republicans don't want to win
they are perfectly happy just to be in the game

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 07:44 AM (AOsQT)

19 Too many rotten things continue to happen. Not good.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2025 07:44 AM (xC2Ng)

20 Trump may think this flip-flop will help keep Republicans in control of the House of Representatives, but it’s much more likely to hurt than help.

I have mixed feelings on this. On the One Hand, God preserved Trump's life at Butler PA before the whole world.

On the Other: We have the GOP that hates America almost as bad as the Demonic Party (who happens to hate all of humanity).

It will be interesting to see if there is a Revival or a Thousand Years of Darkness.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 07:44 AM (a4flb)

21 "What Does The Republican Party Even Stand For?"

Well, for one thing, they will stand to applaud the murderer of Ashli Babbitt.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 07:45 AM (vFG9F)

22 Taylor-Green's full-on defense of McCartney during the fight over the direction the GOP's House probably did more to destroy her reputation than anything else.

McCartney... about anti-MAGA as you can get and still be Republican. Defended by "super-MAGA 'it girl' MTG?"

Horseshit.

She chose poorly and paid a hefty political price. And, apparently is unhappy with that choice. And clearly, to some, a wacked out turncoat because she didn't get "respect."

Most will recognize her as a politician who failed at the one job that requires work to fail at.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2025 07:45 AM (NwnyJ)

23 MTG is a fat assed whore whose next stop should be low end porn movies filmed somewhere in Reno, Nevada.

She is a no talent ass clown which there are many of in Jawja.

Posted by: Uga Number 10 at November 25, 2025 07:47 AM (5nX5P)

24 "... legislators' needs are being neglected by party leadership and an inability to pass legislation..."

The grift and graft have been interrupted.

Posted by: davidt at November 25, 2025 07:47 AM (Q+gd/)

25 Good morning dear horde and happy birthday JJ

Tennessee Dem Candidate Aftyn Behn: ‘I Don’t Want Children. I Want Power!’
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Most of them are sociopaths but some of them are psychopaths.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 07:47 AM (m6HS6)

26 Democrats F&@k everything up. Republicans make sure it stays that way.

That is almost bumper sticker worthy.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 07:48 AM (a4flb)

27 good morning JJ, Horde

The kimchee is deep and spicy, no?

Posted by: callsign claymore at November 25, 2025 07:48 AM (lKJou)

28 DOGE Dissolves, Efficiency Mandates Remain in Washington

According to DOGE, this is untrue.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 07:48 AM (ExV1e)

29 Just call her Margie Green.

Posted by: Here's an idea at November 25, 2025 07:48 AM (XQo4F)

30 “We also have to build secondary power. Real power of organization, the power to turn people out, the power to shut things down, frankly, the power to impose costs,” Platner said. “If we can’t impose costs, then they’ll never listen to us, because they won’t care.”

Impose Cost
VIOLENCE

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 25, 2025 07:49 AM (gbOdA)

31 Fear is what caused the US to lose in Vietnam.

Fear of provoking the USSR and PRC into all out war. As if daily bombing of North Vietnam wasn't provocative enough.

Now imagine if the Diem brothers had been eased out instead of murdered. Imagine if Operation Pocket Money had been carried out in 1965. Imagine if the US had bisected Laos at the DMV between North and South Vietnam to kill the Ho Chi Mihn Trail.

Would we be here now?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2025 07:49 AM (+k/kq)

32 an Antifa ex-member saying why this group and others like them, spew the ‘he or she is a fascist’ bit incessantly: it’s meant to dehumanize so that unhinged leftists can kill you.

“They don’t kill you because you’re a fascist. They call you a fascist so they can kill you,” he said. It’s meant to dehumanize, and it’s no different than what ISIS says about people they wish to destroy.

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 07:49 AM (B5maf)

33 I've been saying this for years
the Republicans don't want to win
they are perfectly happy just to be in the game

Apparently, the GOP is seriously thinking about Paul Ryan 2.0 and quitting en masse just to guarantee derailing the MAGA movement and letting Hell prevail.

Strange game where the only way to play is to quit.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 07:51 AM (a4flb)

34 DMV?

DMZ

Geez

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2025 07:51 AM (+k/kq)

35 Cornyn Polling TANKS Despite MILLIONS Spent in Texas GOP Primary.

Other than people who live in Texas, or read these comments, literally no one could have seen this coming.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 07:53 AM (ExV1e)

36 >Too many rotten things continue to happen. Not good.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs
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I know right
I prefer things that are great

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 07:54 AM (AOsQT)

37 Volodymyr Zelensky Open to Peace Deal, but Warns: ‘Borders Cannot Be Changed by Force’

All of human history disagrees.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 07:54 AM (ExV1e)

38 "Ken Burns Is Off To A Hard-Left Start With His American Revolution Series"

Who expected anything less from Burns and PBS?

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 07:54 AM (vFG9F)

39 Fvck Ken Burns with a Brown Bess.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2025 07:54 AM (+k/kq)

40 Behn said in an unearthed audio clip that she would scream about a lust for power in recurring dreams.

Huh. Sounds a bit like demonic possession to me.

Posted by: GWB at November 25, 2025 07:55 AM (0AclP)

41 Would we be here now?
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2025 07:49 AM (+k/kq)
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That's a lot of "ifs"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 07:55 AM (m6HS6)

42 MTG is an egomaniacal attention whore sellout.
_________
A member of Congress? Unthinkable! Surely you jest.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2025 07:56 AM (s0JqF)

43 Democrats Calling for Mutiny is worse than Pearl Harbor

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 07:56 AM (B5maf)

44 "Report: Campbell’s Soup Executive Called Its Product Food for ‘Poor People,’ ‘Bioengineered Meat"

Soylent Noodle soup?

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 07:57 AM (vFG9F)

45 "Ken Burns Is Off To A Hard-Left Start With His American Revolution Series"

Who expected anything less from Burns and PBS?
Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 07:54 AM (vFG9F)
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I knew this because MiL was going on and on at dinner about how great its supposed to be. She hasn't seen it yet though.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 07:57 AM (m6HS6)

46 Korea and Viet Nam, and later excursions in more recent years illustrate why decisions to go to war should never be taken lightly. Once the decision is made, then it must be an all out effort. Clear goals, objectives, and an end point of definition of victory.

“Limited war” run by corporate Whiz Kids is maybe good for stockholders, that’s about it. Everyone needs skin in the game. They were fighting communists on the other side of the planet while they were embedded like ticks in the USA.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 25, 2025 07:57 AM (VlVje)

47 Cornyn’s support is collapsing, with voters showing increased hostility, making him a spoiler in the race.

Spending tens of millions of dollars to buy a seat of corruption in the Senate, is all the proof I need that Cornyn, who hates Texas and has spent his career figuring out ways to destroy American sovereignty and bolster foreign fortunes, doesn't care that he is almost universally hated, he still wants to screw Texas over and keep himself at the Trough of Power.

Cornyn First. Texas Last.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 07:57 AM (a4flb)

48 Cornelius Vanderbilt: all the wealth squandered by the third generation.

If I had enough wealth that it mattered, I would insist in the trust fund that at least half the wealth indexed for inflation be passed on to my heirs' heirs. Ad infinitum (if that's legal).

Eh, who am I kidding. I'd spend it all on hookers and blow.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 25, 2025 07:58 AM (1Nv0l)

49 Tennessee Dem Candidate Aftyn Behn: ‘I Don’t Want Children. I Want Power!’
________
She'll go far. (That's not a joke. That's our ****ed up system.)

Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2025 08:00 AM (s0JqF)

50 "I knew this because MiL was going on and on at dinner about how great its supposed to be. She hasn't seen it yet though.
Posted by: San Franpsycho"

I know my mom is watching it and I will hold my tongue in her presence. There is nothing to be gained from contradicting what the great PBS produces.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 08:00 AM (vFG9F)

51 And as for the Democrats, this one just says it all about who and what they are:

Tennessee Dem Candidate Aftyn Behn: ‘I Don’t Want Children. I Want Power!’

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"A Death Cult, if you can keep it."

At least she doesn't thoroughly hate The City she wants to govern -- and its idiot residents and Western-Civ-hating Commie-controlled "voting machines" will likely "elect" a la the Muslim Commie in NYC. Wait, wut?

/Jeebus, who knew Marxism was gussied-up Satanism (see Professor Paul Kengor's book "The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism’s Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration")?

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 25, 2025 08:00 AM (cjvQp)

52 Buyer beware.

Superman #1 with a grading of 9.0 just sold for over 9 million US. This was the first issue of the serialized comic, not Superman's first appearance.

But there is an ugly secret, this issue was printed three times with the only difference being one ad is changed after the first print run.

This copy is from that first print run according to published sources.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2025 08:00 AM (+k/kq)

53 Volodymyr Zelensky Open to Peace Deal, but Warns: ‘Borders Cannot Be Changed by Force’

All of human history disagrees.

Americans have always been The Exception. No difference here, America is Exceptional in history because instead of losing its borders by force, we are just erasing them with indifference a/o contempt for our own selves.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 08:00 AM (a4flb)

54 “Autism claims to Medicaid in Minnesota have skyrocketed in recent years — from $3 million in 2018 to $54 million in 2019, $77 million in 2020, $183 million 2021, $279 million in 2022, and $399 million in 2023.

In the real world of business this very rarely happens.
Imaging being a dept head or managing director and say this year we need $100,000 in new laptops and IT work and then showing up the next year at the year end review and saying $1.8 Million.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 25, 2025 08:01 AM (gbOdA)

55 The TN lady seems to be genuinely insane. I thought OUR Dems were bad.

Posted by: American Hawkman at November 25, 2025 08:01 AM (9VDxG)

56 The TN lady seems to be genuinely insane. I thought OUR Dems were bad.

Posted by: American Hawkman at November 25, 2025 08:01 AM (9VDxG)

57 Another incident of 'cultural enrichment' in Italy as three "migrants" are arrested for gang rape.

Meanwhile, in Spain, three people 'culturally enriched' by "migrant" who stabbed them.

Posted by: one hour sober at November 25, 2025 08:01 AM (Y1sOo)

58 It will be interesting to see if there is a Revival or a Thousand Years of Darkness.

--

I heard an old Russian guy on a documentary the other day saying, and I paraphrase:

"History repeats itself. But only the bad parts."

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 25, 2025 08:01 AM (qBdHI)

59 Good morning Horde, thx JJ.
Not bothering with Burns Revolutionary War series. I'm going to pick up Rick Atkinson's second book in his Revolutionary War trilogy

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 08:02 AM (bfwj/)

60 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2025 08:02 AM (PDBoZ)

61 "History repeats itself. But only the bad parts."
Posted by: Lady in Black at November 25, 2025 08:01 AM (qBdHI)

Real communism has never been tried.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 08:03 AM (ExV1e)

62 “ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”

1 Corinthians 13:5-7

Posted by: Marcus T at November 25, 2025 08:04 AM (B5Sbl)

63 Mamdani Says He’s a ‘Democratic Socialist,’ Not a Commie. But What’s the Difference?
__________________

The communist doesn't deny being a communist.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 25, 2025 08:04 AM (1ZxPD)

64 WTF is this "Promoted Content"? Die Promoted Content, DiE!

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 08:04 AM (vFG9F)

65 “Autism claims to Medicaid in Minnesota have skyrocketed in recent years — from $3 million in 2018 to $54 million in 2019, $77 million in 2020, $183 million 2021, $279 million in 2022, and $399 million in 2023.

In the real world of business this very rarely happens. .....
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 25, 2025 08:01 AM (gbOdA)
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It takes a while to get the right people in the right places to make the right things happen.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 08:04 AM (m6HS6)

66 “For someone who grew up with my mother telling me, never have kids because you will, you know, you’ll have to give up a lot. You’ll have to sacrifice professionally,” she continued.

Right. Because choosing to not have children has no sacrifices attached to it. The demonic possession angle is making sense.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 25, 2025 08:04 AM (svLOV)

67 "It nknown which Republicans are currently pondering resignation, but a feeling that legislators' needs are being neglected by party leadership and an inability to pass legislation . . . ."

IOW: I'm not getting my pork and a gold star for the day.

Not passing legislation? Who's job is that? So I'll quit and "my" legislation won't pass?

Part of this is disinformation. The Ds are a train wreck. This is diversion.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at November 25, 2025 08:04 AM (ItWcy)

68 Real communism has never been tried.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 08:03 AM (ExV1e)

Translation:
We deserve to govern with unlimited power since it our turn.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 25, 2025 08:05 AM (gbOdA)

69 "never have kids"

Best advice she ever got.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 08:05 AM (vFG9F)

70 While Americans continue to grapple with high costs of living and an increasingly broken health care system ...

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It cannot be said enough: F*ck Juan McCain and the Whores He Rode In On.

Scumbag should have gone to prison for the Keating McCain Five Scandal alone ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 25, 2025 08:05 AM (cjvQp)

71 Democrats Calling for Mutiny Must Be Punished

If they haven't been arrested by now, they never will be. Let's stop pretending there are any consequences for any Democrat.

House Republican Predicts More Resignations Are Coming After MTG Quits

Of course. They don't have the desire or the stomach to fight. At this point, to quote Keats, anything Trump does is writ in water. The GOP never wanted Trump, do not support Trump and undermine him at every opportunity. If you gave the vast majority of them the choice between being in congress and soaking up millions in bribes or being a private citizen so long as it means Trump is blocked, they would choose the latter in a heartbeat.

Left-Wing Activists Threaten To Primary John Fetterman. He Just Laughs.

Let's not all jump on the Uncle Festerman train. He is not to be trusted.

https://tinyurl.com/3236yvhf

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 25, 2025 08:05 AM (ufSfZ)

72 All three of those "ifs' are inflection points where things could have gone differently.

The coup against Diem seriously damaged the government of South Vietnam until Nguyen Cao Ky was elected.
Pocket Money was the mining of Hanoi and Haiphong harbors under Nixon, thus starving North Vietnam of the supplies from the Soviet Union it needed to wage war. Operation El Paso, going into Laos, would have severed the Ho Chi Mihn Trail at its narrowest point.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2025 08:05 AM (+k/kq)

73 Posted by: American Hawkman at November 25, 2025 08:01 AM (9VDxG)

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In mah belly!

Posted by: The Barrel at November 25, 2025 08:05 AM (m6HS6)

74 "never have kids"

Best advice she ever got.
Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 08:05 AM (vFG9F)

OTOH, way too many people in power in the West with no personal interest in the future.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 08:07 AM (ExV1e)

75 "I support Donald Trump because the alternative is a Republican."

-- Sundance, Conservative Treehouse

Yep.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at November 25, 2025 08:07 AM (GYGpZ)

76 For all intents and purposes, the current GOP is a party comprised of various ideological factions, disillusioned as to what “America First” actually means.

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"America First? Well that would be: Americans take it up the ass first, Bob!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 25, 2025 08:07 AM (cjvQp)

77 I kilt it.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 08:07 AM (vFG9F)

78 Cornelius Vanderbilt: all the wealth squandered by the third generation.

--

Stupid offspring of these giants who made their fortunes. It happens so often. They squander it all because they never had to work for anything and are free to dabble in their "philanthropy."

I could be wrong, but I was always under the impression that Cornelius certainly got the ball rolling for the family's wealth, but it was really his son William H. Vanderbilt who was the one responsible for the vast wealth they wound up having. He was quite business savvy.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 25, 2025 08:07 AM (qBdHI)

79
Report: Campbell’s Soup Executive Called Its Product Food for ‘Poor People,’ ‘Bioengineered Meat’

I just happy that Cream of Onion is a real thing

now, if they'd only make Cream of Garlic...

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 25, 2025 08:07 AM (tljrc)

80 The GOP never wanted Trump, do not support Trump and undermine him at every opportunity.

Which is why voters don't turn out for not-Trump.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 08:08 AM (ExV1e)

81 "Best advice she ever got.
Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 08:05 AM (vFG9F)

OTOH, way too many people in power in the West with no personal interest in the future.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic"


Let me put it another way.

Best advice SHE ever got.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 08:08 AM (vFG9F)

82 Third generation?

What generation of Kennedy nepo-babies are we on?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2025 08:08 AM (+k/kq)

83 Congratulations genius. Brilliant move! In trying to equate Epstein with Trump to paint the latter as a reprobate pedophile, etc. all Raskin did was proclaim Epstein to be at the highest level of Democrat party leadership!

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Zombie McGovern/Epstein 2028 -- Make 1972 Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 25, 2025 08:09 AM (cjvQp)

84 "never have kids"

Best advice she ever got.
Posted by: fd
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"Give up everything that will really matter to you for things that are ephemeral and ultimately unrewarding"

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 25, 2025 08:09 AM (1Nv0l)

85 So more republican House members are gonna quit before midterms ? Where have I seen this before ?

Posted by: It's me donna at November 25, 2025 08:09 AM (VE6XX)

86 People exist to have kids. To deny that is self-destructive. The mark of the Left.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 08:10 AM (vFG9F)

87 What generation of Kennedy nepo-babies are we on?
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2025 08:08 AM (+k/kq)

That's because the people of Massachusetts, in the main, are retarded.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 08:10 AM (ExV1e)

88 Scott, Florida’s senior senator and former governor, echoed DeSantis, arguing, “Florida’s beautiful beaches and coastal waters are so important to our state’s economy, environment, and military community, which is why I have fought for years to keep drilling off Florida’s coasts and worked closely with President Trump during his first term to extend the moratorium banning oil drilling off Florida’s coasts through 2032.”

Who would have thot Scott was owned by Big Tourism??

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 25, 2025 08:10 AM (gbOdA)

89 Former Black Panther leader H. Rap Brown dies in prison hospital at 82

“The OG Rapper”

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 08:10 AM (B5maf)

90 "a feeling that legislators' needs are being neglected by party leadership..."

It's not just their needs being neglected. This is all so drearily predictable, stupid, unnecessary and arguably tragic. With Trump, the GOP has been given one of the rarest, greatest, indeed historically momentous, opportunities to effect critical change, correction and even national salvation. And they act like it's another day at the office. Cowardice? Corruption? Paucity of character? Whatever, what a loss.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 25, 2025 08:10 AM (VnsnO)

91 79
Report: Campbell’s Soup Executive Called Its Product Food for ‘Poor People,’ ‘Bioengineered Meat’

I just happy that Cream of Onion is a real thing

now, if they'd only make Cream of Garlic...
Posted by: AltonJackson at November 25, 2025 08:07 AM (tljrc)

Was discussing this with the spouse...was the guy on camera even in a position to see the processing of the food?

As for "food for poor people", well, soup IS food for poor people. Knocking your product when it's reality seems dumb and like you were trying to impress someone that your tastes were better than your company.

I mean, I make their (or Aldi's - I switch off) tomato soup with my own add ins when I need a cheap easy meal that cleans out the fridge and is mostly healthy. That's what us poor and middle class folks do. If I wasn't poor/middle class, I'd be trashing all leftovers and just ordering Door Dash when I needed an easy meal...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2025 08:11 AM (tOcjL)

92 🚨 UPDATE: Zohran Mamdani voters can't believe their eyes as the communist KEEPS begging for money, announcing things can't actually be free.

So this dude won the election, demands money and kisses up to "threat to democracy tyrant" Donald Trump 🤣🔥

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 08:12 AM (B5maf)

93 America is Exceptional in history because instead of losing its borders by force, we are just erasing them with indifference a/o contempt for our own selves.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

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What am I, chopped liver?

Posted by: All of Western Europe at November 25, 2025 08:12 AM (1Nv0l)

94 The poll, shared by WMUR’s Adam Sexton, initially listed Vance at 54 percent, but a correction posted shortly afterward clarified that the vice president’s support actually sits at 57 percent, reinforcing the scale of his lead.

I definitely read that as 'MUMR' and was like... 'whoa...'

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at November 25, 2025 08:12 AM (rRMBj)

95 Only at the late stage was Vietnam bombed in the North, and haiphong harbor mined. Operation Linebacker? This was done by President Nixon primarily to get the commies to the negotiating table.

Gen. Curtis LeMay noted at the time that they weren’t serious during the war in Korea and was pretty pissed off about it. He later observed the same thing in Viet Nam. “Stop swatting at flies, and go after the manure pile.”

Posted by: Common Tater at November 25, 2025 08:12 AM (VlVje)

96
I definitely read that as 'MUMR' and was like... 'whoa...'
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at November 25, 2025 08:12 AM (rRMB

Me too LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at November 25, 2025 08:13 AM (VE6XX)

97 47 Cornyn’s support is collapsing, with voters showing increased hostility, making him a spoiler in the race.

Spending tens of millions of dollars to buy a seat of corruption in the Senate, is all the proof I need that Cornyn, who hates Texas and has spent his career figuring out ways to destroy American sovereignty and bolster foreign fortunes, doesn't care that he is almost universally hated, he still wants to screw Texas over and keep himself at the Trough of Power.

Cornyn First. Texas Last.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 07:57 AM (a4flb)

Trump still needs Cornyn's vote in the Senate before the voters defenestrate him. Trump will probably remain silent on the election until after Paxton defeats him.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 25, 2025 08:13 AM (0CU3H)

98 And I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
No, no, no, no, no

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 08:13 AM (B5maf)

99 As an Arizonan ...

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FYI, JJ: Your second bullet-point (beginning with the phrase above) paragraph quote is missing a link -- which I think is here at PJ Media:

https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/
2025/11/24/court-martial-dept-of-war-
investigates-sen-mark-kelly-n4946350

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 25, 2025 08:14 AM (cjvQp)

100 seems dumb and like you were trying to impress someone that your tastes were better than your company.

Bud Light DEI Hire Marketing Exec has entered the chat.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 25, 2025 08:14 AM (svLOV)

101 We were told for decades that
"Soup is good food."

https://tinyurl.com/bddzuzcc

Posted by: Boomerz at November 25, 2025 08:14 AM (XQo4F)

102 Mark Kelly: We wanted to explain to members of the military that we have their backs.

Ruben Gallego, a few hours earlier: Threatens members of the military with retaliation over investigation into Kelly.

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 08:15 AM (B5maf)

103 I only have about 3 or 4 cans of Campbells in my pantry. I checked their labels yesterday and all 4 (even the French Onion) say "Made with bioengineered products." It's very tiny and you really have to look for it, but it's on there.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 25, 2025 08:15 AM (qBdHI)

104 Given the number of stories from unnamed sources coming out of DC that turn out to be bullshit seeking to sew distrust on our side I think I'll wait to see who else is planning to quit before I ignite my hair.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2025 08:15 AM (viF8m)

105 Operation Linebacker and Linebacker II were B-52 missions.

Rolling Thunder was the name of F-105s and F-4s bombing North Vietnam.

Operation Pocket Money was the mining of harbors by Nixon.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2025 08:16 AM (+k/kq)

106 Dem Aftyn Behn Backpedals on Hating Nashville by Claiming She Was Conceived After a George Strait Concert

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 08:16 AM (B5maf)

107 Campbells = Frankensoup

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 25, 2025 08:16 AM (qBdHI)

108 Huey Newton, George Jackson, Stokely Carmichael, great role models. All of the usual suspects and leftists fawned over these guys, and donated huge sums to their “cause”.

Trustafarians. Cadillac Communists, Lexus Liberals. Jane Fonda, Pete Fonda, Patty Hearst, Abbie Folger, you need lots and lots of money to he a commie, never forget that

Posted by: Common Tater at November 25, 2025 08:17 AM (VlVje)

109 The real villain in Wicked is anorexia.

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 08:17 AM (B5maf)

110 H. Rap Brown died. First name was Hubert. Murderous puke killed a cop. A least we can use his cell for another scumbag

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 08:17 AM (bfwj/)

111 >>Mark Kelly: We wanted to explain to members of the military that we have their backs.

Would these be the same Democrats who shutdown the government and prevented the military from getting paid 5 minutes ago?

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2025 08:17 AM (viF8m)

112 As I noted one time on my blog in regards to Vietnam.

Strategic bombing is killing the cow. IE Pocket Money.

Tactical bombing is breaking the milk bottles, ie all the strike missions against the Ho Chi Mihn Trail.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2025 08:18 AM (+k/kq)

113 Cream of Rutabaga never really caught on.

Posted by: Campbell's Marketing Department at November 25, 2025 08:19 AM (XQo4F)

114 his son William H. Vanderbilt who was the one responsible for the vast wealth they wound up having.
Posted by: Lady in Black
---
It's true he was the only business-oriented offspring. Daddy Cornelius left almost all the fortune to him for that reason. And he did double it in 8 years before he died young (a Vanderbilt male curse).

But that's only equivalent to a 9% annual return. Decent, but not great, especially in a time of no capital gains tax, no income tax.

Daddy was the real-deal. He came from zero.

Posted by: All of Western Europe at November 25, 2025 08:19 AM (1Nv0l)

115 Former Black Panther leader H. Rap Brown dies in prison hospital at 82

“The OG Rapper”

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 08:10 AM (B5maf)

--------------

"The Squad" was the OG Name of a group of Black Panther assassins.

[Things I learned reading the great David Horowitz's (R.I.P.) autobiography "Radical Son."]

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 25, 2025 08:19 AM (cjvQp)

116 Another clown judge, another clown ruling.

This one, the RI judge rules the Executive can't manage the Executive branch, only Congress can. Making permanent, as expected, his prior illegal temporary injunction.

It's a complete bastardization and molestation of the Constitution to coerce the absolute rule of the bureaucracy over the Executive. Filled with dishonest and false discussions of the "Take Care" Clause that turns the Executive into merely Congressional Administrator, a figurehead solely placed to effect the whims of Congress--not serve the People, not execute the laws and absolutely not exercise any discretion or decision in effect.

And no fucking way should the Executive ever be treated as a full, equal and separate branch of government.

That's the most offensive part of all these clown judge rulings, the "Because Trump!" we're going to treat the Executive as subservient to all other branches.

Oh, if you're asking why a RI judge--you never voted for--has nationwide jurisdiction over the management of the Executive Branch, it's 'cause you're a dummy that didn't got to Harvard.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 08:19 AM (T3zUV)

117 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 08:20 AM (Zz0t1)

118 " I think I'll wait to see who else is planning to quit before I ignite my hair.
Posted by: JackStraw "

And then you will? The only thing I expect is more traitors.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 08:20 AM (vFG9F)

119 Noted this yesterday, but it's true that unfortunately Republicans don't turn out in special elections. However Aftyn in Tenn is so uniquely awful that people are going to turn out just to vote against her

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 08:20 AM (bfwj/)

120 I pretty much only buy cream of mushroom. Most canned anything is just rancid crap these days.

Cream of mushroom soup is just an ersatz gravy. A flour and butter roux, a kind of béchamel made with Milk or half and half is way better.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 25, 2025 08:20 AM (VlVje)

121 Today is National Parfait Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2025 08:21 AM (NpAcC)

122 A senior House Republican predicts that more "explosive early resignations are coming" after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-Ga.) surprise announcement that she would leave Congress in January. . . It’s unknown which Republicans are currently pondering resignation, but a feeling that legislators' needs are being neglected by party leadership and an inability to pass legislation has led some to consider quitting, as they expect the GOP to lose its already slim majority in Congress.


The deep state will win, regardless. Those that are leaving, check their bank accounts. Check off shore. Check everywhere. They're all being bought and paid for.

We will NEVER defeat the deep state.

Our future is f*cked. There is no future. We will be enslaved to the one world alliance.

Enjoy sharia.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

123 The Campbell's tomato soup lists the only bioengineered ingredient - it's a genetically modified sugar crop. If that's it, I'm not lighting my hair on fire over that soup - the sugar is the bad part (and it is sugar, not corn syrup) anyway, and in small quantity.

Again, seems like the VP wanted to sound more important than he was. That's said, it's good to put every food company under the microscope every few years to make sure they are still on the up and up with their products...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2025 08:21 AM (tOcjL)

124 DOGE Dissolves, Efficiency Mandates Remain in Washington
_______
2 foot jump across the Grand Canyon.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2025 08:22 AM (s0JqF)

125 >>Mark Kelly: We wanted to explain to members of the military that we have their backs.

Look me up if you're ever near Guantanamo!

Posted by: Mark Kelly at November 25, 2025 08:22 AM (63An5)

126 Who would have thot Scott was owned by Big Tourism??
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 25, 2025 08:10 AM (gbOdA)

Everybody in Tallahoochie and washington from floriduh is in the pockets of the hotel/motel/restaurant lobby i.e. Big Tourism.

Worse than the mafia.

Posted by: Fat Sal Delmonico at November 25, 2025 08:22 AM (5nX5P)

127 123 The Campbell's tomato soup lists the only bioengineered ingredient - it's a genetically modified sugar crop. If that's it, I'm not lighting my hair on fire over that soup - the sugar is the bad part (and it is sugar, not corn syrup) anyway, and in small quantity.

Again, seems like the VP wanted to sound more important than he was. That's said, it's good to put every food company under the microscope every few years to make sure they are still on the up and up with their products...
Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2025 08:21 AM (tOcjL)


Or he shorted all his stock before he made that statement

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 25, 2025 08:22 AM (x0n13)

128 Several GOP House members privately told Turd n Punchbowl News that they were also considering retiring before their terms end, after Greene's Nov. 21 announcement.

fixt it

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 25, 2025 08:23 AM (gbOdA)

129 Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 08:16

She sounds like a nitwit . If indeed she was conceived after a county concert the newly joined sperm and egg had a revelation that she would be running for office 50 years later and so that's supposed to give the voters of TN a warm, funny feeling?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 08:23 AM (ix8EF)

130 It is gonna be another wonderful week for our King ! So much winning in the polls and hearts of Americans

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at November 25, 2025 08:23 AM (BvMja)

131 51 See also Marx and Satan by Richard Wurmbrand

Atheism is for the masses. Black masses are for the leadership.

Posted by: callsign claymore at November 25, 2025 08:24 AM (lKJou)

132 The NY Post editorial board is calling on Candace's family to do an intervention because she's obviously flipped her lid. The train wreck won't end well

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 08:24 AM (bfwj/)

133 “We wanted to explain to members of the military that we have their backs”

Sure, Jan. I wouldn’t trust that fucker just lookin’ at him.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 25, 2025 08:24 AM (VlVje)

134 Chicago Man With 72 Arrests Accused of Setting Woman on Fire
________
We need to start punishing these judges. Since the law won't, we'll need informal means. Take Maxine's advice - allow them no peace. Hound them continuously. Do not let them forget what they have allowed.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2025 08:24 AM (s0JqF)

135 Enjoy sharia.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

Real Sharia has never been tried.

Posted by: LBGTQIA+ Hamas at November 25, 2025 08:25 AM (gbOdA)

136 I could be wrong, but didn't a lot of R congressmen retire during Trump's first term to leave him swinging in the wind?

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 25, 2025 08:25 AM (qBdHI)

137 This soup thing is just a phase.
They'll come back to me in due time.
They know where the good stuff is.

Posted by: Spaghetti-Os at November 25, 2025 08:25 AM (XQo4F)

138 So, Chicken Noodle-
that's not real chicken then?

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 08:25 AM (AOsQT)

139 Will the Candace Ovens fan-bois go to social media to scream, "leave Candace alone!" Will they?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2025 08:25 AM (+k/kq)

140 Basically, the only things the GOP really cares about are tax cuts, making war and amnestying illegal immigrants.

As has been said, the GOP id a useless pile of dog shit, which is how Trump was able to take over the party so easily.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 25, 2025 08:26 AM (XV/Pl)

141 132 The NY Post editorial board is calling on Candace's family to do an intervention because she's obviously flipped her lid. The train wreck won't end well
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 08:24 AM (bfwj/)

She is to convince the black community that the only blacks who leave the D plantation are absolutely crazy. She's being paid well to do that job loudly and proudly. Ignore her and she goes away.

Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2025 08:26 AM (tOcjL)

142 It is gonna be another wonderful week for our King ! So much winning in the polls and hearts of Americans
====

Is Peking burning?

Posted by: The Barrel at November 25, 2025 08:26 AM (CA6zO)

143 /burp

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 08:26 AM (CA6zO)

144 "that's not real chicken then?
Posted by: Don Black"

It's real test tube chicken.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 08:26 AM (vFG9F)

145 The Chicago arsonist on the train, one of his prior arrests is for arson.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2025 08:26 AM (+k/kq)

146 >>And then you will? The only thing I expect is more traitors.

We just went through 5+ weeks of Republican legislators staying united to beat Democrats in the shutdown and there has been a serious of lies and ops coming from the left and their media partners in DC trying to get their mojo back and damage our side. And this is after a decade of Russia collusion, J6 and pretty much non-stop lies from the left.

MTG is quitting because she was going to lose her primary. That's the only reason. Maybe others will quit and maybe they won't. There will definitely be a good opportunity to pick up new seats with redistricting. It's pointless to get wrapped around the axle based on unnamed sources from the swamp. Plenty or real stuff to worry about.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2025 08:27 AM (viF8m)

147 Trustafarians. Cadillac Communists, Lexus Liberals. Jane Fonda, Pete Fonda, Patty Hearst, Abbie Folger, you need lots and lots of money to he a commie, never forget that
Posted by: Common Tater
----

Abigail Disney. Still begging for her taxes to be increased.

Nothing is stopping you writing checks to the treasury, sweetie.

Posted by: All of Western Europe at November 25, 2025 08:27 AM (1Nv0l)

148 She sounds like a nitwit . If indeed she was conceived after a county concert the newly joined sperm and egg had a revelation that she would be running for office 50 years later and so that's supposed to give the voters of TN a warm, funny feeling?

--

It's her version of standing beside a pickup truck in a flannel shirt while chewing on a piece of hay. She's just like them! See, she was conceived (yeah, sure Jan) at a George Straight concert so you can trust her.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 25, 2025 08:27 AM (qBdHI)

149 Mamdani Says He’s a ‘Democratic Socialist,’ Not a Commie. But What’s the Difference?
__________________

The communist doesn't deny being a communist.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 25, 2025 08:04 AM (1ZxPD)
-

I have said it here before:

A socialist is a Marxist without a Kalashnikov.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2025 08:27 AM (xC2Ng)

150 Why no swatsikas around her ? JJ?
A lot of people especially those with mommy issues like to see buxom older women in nazi regalia. Ever reflect on that ?

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at November 25, 2025 08:28 AM (BvMja)

151 What Does The Republican Party Even Stand For?

Our job is to staunchly defend and conserve, if you will, Democrat gains until they become accepted as the status quo.

Posted by: The GOPe at November 25, 2025 08:28 AM (63An5)

152 So I guess her mother yelling 'don't have children' is from personal experience of banging a roadie at a George Strait concert?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2025 08:28 AM (+k/kq)

153 Mornin’, All. Happy Tuesday.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 08:29 AM (77rzZ)

154 >>DOGE Dissolves, Efficiency Mandates Remain in Washington

Perfect example. Keyboards were abused for days over DOGE being dissolved only to find out it was a lie.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2025 08:29 AM (viF8m)

155 A socialist is a Marxist without a Kalashnikov.

Yup

Posted by: callsign claymore at November 25, 2025 08:29 AM (lKJou)

156 Borders Cannot Be Changed by Force"

Ok, that's funny right there...

Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 08:30 AM (XuXeR)

157 Allen G, if you're still out there......you're still correct in your DC plan of action.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 25, 2025 08:30 AM (g8Ew8)

158 149 Mamdani Says He’s a ‘Democratic Socialist,’ Not a Commie. But What’s the Difference?
__________________

It doesn't matter anymore. The terms lost meaning eons ago.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 25, 2025 08:30 AM (VnsnO)

159 Buxom? Regalia?

Your translator is working OT.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 08:30 AM (CA6zO)

160 The goal of socialism is communism.

Posted by: The ghost of Vladimir Lenin at November 25, 2025 08:30 AM (XQo4F)

161 "It's pointless to get wrapped around the axle based on unnamed sources from the swamp. Plenty or real stuff to worry about.
Posted by: JackStraw"

I'm not wrapped around the axle I just expect past trends to continue. I do admire your optimism though.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 08:30 AM (vFG9F)

162 Wait, she really claims that about a George Strait concert!? No way. I thought it was a Babylon Bee story.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 25, 2025 08:30 AM (VlVje)

163 https://www.campbells.com/chicken-noodle-soup/

The GMOs are corn, soy, sugars/beet, and oil products, not supposedly the meat.

Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2025 08:30 AM (tOcjL)

164 Real communism has never been tried.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic


I think Lenin and Stalin made a pretty good run at it. 60 million dead civilians seems like a good attempt, only surpassed by Mao at 90 million.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 25, 2025 08:31 AM (jQILT)

165 It’s unknown which Republicans are currently pondering resignation, but a feeling that legislators' needs are being neglected by party leadership and an inability to pass legislation has led some to consider quitting, as they expect the GOP to lose its already slim majority in Congress.
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Like hell it's "unknown."
It's a short list of assholes advocating for Democrat priorities that fit the "legislators' needs are being neglected by party leadership."
- The Epstein Assholes
- the SALT expansion babies
- The "we luv Obamacare and can fix" shitbags

There, there is your list of "Republicans" who may resign.

This ain't 2018, they don't have Trump hobbled by a faked-up investigation.
They don't have party leadership secretly assisting the investigation.
And they sure as shit don't have 50 in swing districts they can sacrifice this time around.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 08:31 AM (T3zUV)

166 Today's Birthdays:
Andrew Carnegie
Augusto Pinochet
JFK Jr.
Joe DiMaggio
Abby D. Phillips
Amy Grant
Jenna Bush Hager
Christina Applegate

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2025 08:31 AM (NpAcC)

167 What does it mean if you were conceived at a Culture Club concert?

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 08:32 AM (vFG9F)

168 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at November 25, 2025 08:32 AM (53oGX)

169 >>I'm not wrapped around the axle I just expect past trends to continue. I do admire your optimism though.


Lack of debilitating pessimism is not optimism. I just don't trust unnamed sources from the swamp who hate me and want me to be miserable.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2025 08:32 AM (viF8m)

170 What does it mean if you were conceived at a Culture Club concert?

Parti-colored hair and 85 different genders.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2025 08:32 AM (+k/kq)

171 Posted by: Lady in Black at November 25, 2025 08:27 AM (qBdHI)

LOL Yep. She's real country . It's risible .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 08:32 AM (looXz)

172 First Lady is at the airport heading down to see the First Daughter. They will spend a wonderful Thanksgiving together, doing what, I've no idea.

I'll be without family for the first time in my life, but I'm OK with that. I will end up doing what's likely to be a driveway open to all comers. I'll have a ham on the smoker, likely make some mac 'n cheese, then whatever whomever wants to bring along with it.

It will be odd, but because most everyone close is gone, this is how it will be going forward.

It is what it is.

Happy Holidays!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 08:33 AM (Zz0t1)

173 Andrew Carnegie - libraries
Augusto Pinochet - savior of Chile
JFK Jr. - who?
Joe DiMaggio - Marilyn's husband
Abby D. Phillips - no
Amy Grant - singer
Jenna Bush Hager - no one cares
Christina Applegate - a prayer for her complete and immediate recovery

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 08:34 AM (CA6zO)

174 The George Strait gambit is her version of Hillary and her bottle of tabasco sauce.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2025 08:34 AM (+k/kq)

175 The GOPe mostly just wants to make money off of the back of the Demoncrats, without having to do any work.

That's it. They know they're the barnacles on the Demoncrat ship, and they don't want to be scraped off of it.

Posted by: XTC at November 25, 2025 08:34 AM (6Uni8)

176 Who names their kid Aftyn?

Posted by: I gotta ask at November 25, 2025 08:35 AM (XQo4F)

177 Candace has ignored good advice, and gone Full Retard:
“BREAKING: Candace Owens just dropped the mother of all conspiracy bombshells on her show:

“Charlie Kirk was assassinated because I was *this close* to exposing the ultimate truth: Brigitte Macron was a subject in the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment. The French government took him out to protect her secret. I had the documents. They’re gone now.”

(Of course the “evidence” is gone now)

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 08:35 AM (ngbZu)

178 I would imagine many Republicans mulling retirement are tired of the constant infighting between the democratic socialists and the rank and file GOP.

That said, the GOP needs to get involved in the fight more than they are currently committed. They 'seem' to be on the sidelines, occasionally cheering, but unwilling to enter the fray.

The administration is facing an onslaught from the left and the rest of 'our side' is twiddling their thumbs.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2025 08:36 AM (NwnyJ)

179 Trump's pen-and-phone strategy is a *huge* improvement over his first Presidency.

But everything on Congress's end is an exact replay - a GOP who despises Trump, does nothing to move his agenda, and organizes a mass walkout at the midterm to hand the ball back to their Democrat bosses.

I've said it for the last 11 years, but here it comes again: no progress can be made as long as the GOP exists. It will not be reformed by Trump or anyone else. It has to go.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 08:36 AM (BI5O2)

180 I just don't trust unnamed sources from the swamp"

Or from Bangalore...

FWIW, the Somali/Lutheran/Minnesota tale is interesting in that it seems to illuminate what happens in declining organizations... it seems (and this is mostly speculation, so there) that the church organizations panicked over lost $$$, so someone noticed the USAID and other monies available for "refugees"... and that started the ball rolling.

Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 08:36 AM (XuXeR)

181 Prices down , but so are purchases in latest report. Lingering effects of shutdown? Market up

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 08:36 AM (bfwj/)

182 over DOGE being dissolved only to find out it was a lie.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2025 08:29 AM (viF8m)

How is it a lie? It is officially dissolved. "OPM director Scott Kuper says 'DOGE doesn't exist and is no longer a centralized entity.' We can argue over whether its auditing function has been faithfully integrated into the system, but DOGE is dissolved.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 25, 2025 08:36 AM (VnsnO)

183 Who names their kid Aftyn?

Doctor's cursive for an RX of Afrin got misinterpreted?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2025 08:37 AM (+k/kq)

184 The GMOs are corn, soy, sugars/beet, and oil products, not supposedly the meat.
Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2025 08:30 AM (tOcjL)

You're still worried about GMOs?

Bless your heart.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 25, 2025 08:37 AM (g8Ew8)

185 "I just don't trust unnamed sources from the swamp who hate me and want me to be miserable.
Posted by: JackStraw"

I don't either. My inclination is to disbelieve everything that comes from the commie leftists. I do believe in my own deductions based on past experiences though.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 08:37 AM (vFG9F)

186 Even we couldn't make socialism work.

Posted by: The Germans at November 25, 2025 08:37 AM (XQo4F)

187 Seems to be no link for the first Mark Kelly article.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 08:38 AM (77rzZ)

188 Real communism has never been tried.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Translation:
We deserve to govern with unlimited power since it our turn.
Posted by: r hennigantx


*cough cough Lenin & Stalin had unlimited power. They could even kill millions cough cough*

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2025 08:38 AM (PDBoZ)

189 Our job is to staunchly defend and conserve, if you will, Democrat gains until they become accepted as the status quo.

Given that there is precisely 0.000% of politicians and bureaucrats in Babylon DC who have even the slightest concern about rising federal debt, what really is the collapse point?

I have totally given up on the idea that there will ever be a sane health care policy primarily because it has been "accepted as the status quo" that the Malthusians who hate you and see you as defective livestock expect to maintain absolute tyrannical control over who gets medical treatment and who does not.

And that the money laundering must increase by trillions every "budget" cycle.

It will crash.

I guess I should spend the rest of this week building a green house and erecting perimeter defense.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 08:38 AM (a4flb)

190 Even we couldn't make imported for labor "immigrants" work.

/DaimlerBenz, Bosch, VWGroup, Siemens, etc....

Posted by: man at November 25, 2025 08:38 AM (XuXeR)

191 Humanity has been genetically modifying crops for thousands of years.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2025 08:40 AM (+k/kq)

192 Who names their kid Aftyn?

Posted by: I gotta ask at November 25, 2025 08:35 AM (XQo4F)
-

So I asked Grok:

https://tinyurl.com/4drbvcka

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2025 08:40 AM (xC2Ng)

193 but DOGE is dissolved.

Why rearrange deck chairs when everyone wants the Titanic to sink?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 08:41 AM (a4flb)

194 Interesting that after a month of spreading chaos, the three biggest alt-right (or is it woke right?) stars are all collapsing. Candace Owens is the most obvious psychological burnout, disgusting everyone with her attempt to make Charlie Kirk’s murder All About Her. Tucker is sinking into defense of the cartels as his producer is invited to Qatar to get new orders (yes, that is happening)
And that malignant little gay troll Fuentes is now praising the radical left and inviting them to help him overthrow society.
Oh yes roll models all.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 08:41 AM (ngbZu)

195 “Autism claims to Medicaid in Minnesota have skyrocketed in recent years

.. we need to cutoff their Tylenol

Posted by: SMOD, I grew up in a middle-class constellation at November 25, 2025 08:41 AM (RHGPo)

196 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: "We can't jail our way out of vioIence... it's racist"

https://tinyurl.com/9y67djek

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2025 08:41 AM (NpAcC)

197 >>How is it a lie? It is officially dissolved. "OPM director Scott Kuper says 'DOGE doesn't exist and is no longer a centralized entity.' We can argue over whether its auditing function has been faithfully integrated into the system, but DOGE is dissolved.

Because they people are still there doing the same stuff. The only change is naming.

>>As Kupor explained, a “centralized agency” was no longer necessary, since OPM had “taken over many of DOGE’s functions” after Musk left the agency last May. Around that time, DOGE staffers were embedded at various agencies, where they could ostensibly better coordinate with leadership on proposed cuts to staffing and funding.

https://tinyurl.com/5c6mvv64

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2025 08:41 AM (viF8m)

198 "Humanity has been genetically modifying crops for thousands of years.
Posted by: Anna Puma"

And look what it has done to us!

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 08:41 AM (vFG9F)

199 I don't either. My inclination is to disbelieve everything that comes from the commie leftists. I do believe in my own deductions based on past experiences though.
Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 08:37 AM (vFG9F)
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Girl F. is almost 30. If you were to say today, "Girl F., what is the first rule about television?" I guarantee she will respond rotely, "Everything on TV is a Lie!"

Because I raised her right.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 08:41 AM (CA6zO)

200 “Charlie Kirk was assassinated because I was *this close* to exposing the ultimate truth: Brigitte Macron was a subject in the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment. The French government took him out to protect her secret. I had the documents. They’re gone now.”

(Of course the “evidence” is gone now)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 08:35 AM (ngbZu)


How hard is it to put information (DATA) on a flash drive and secure it somewhere?

Make 100 copies. Send it around to friends everywhere.

Put it in the cloud, ferchryssakes. Make it READILY available.

I'm SO tired of all the "I'VE GOT ALL THE PROOF!!!!!! I'll be releasing it on Tuesday the 24th........"

F*cking idiots. All of them.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 08:42 AM (Zz0t1)

201 Humanity has been genetically modifying crops for thousands of years.

Would have been extinct if we didn't. I see pictures of heritage crops (as would have been around 200 years ago), and none of it would have been considered acceptable for even the worst of grocery produce sections.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 08:42 AM (a4flb)

202 "Smallest Herd in Seven Decades Means Big Bills at the Butcher"
- - - - - - - - - -
Wasn't there a story that, during the early COVID years, ranchers were culling their herds early? Some articles state an issue with drought conditions, but it seems like there should be more of an explanation to it. Seed corn and all that.

Posted by: Another Anon at November 25, 2025 08:42 AM (4h45B)

203 Good Morning , and so well said JJ. MTG is still a pro lifer etc.., and who knows her new strategy, but leaving her term early is political treason to the Right Wing. Even trash Paul Ryan finished out his term for example

Posted by: Jonah at November 25, 2025 08:43 AM (YCxFk)

204 off sox

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 25, 2025 08:43 AM (gbOdA)

205 The reason the socialists are gaining is because they are the only ones offering an alternative to the status quo. It's a shitty alternative. And it will only make things worse. But it's the only one on offer.
--
Note the derision even here at Trump's proposal of a 50 year mortgage.
And hoo-boy did the Ramsey Boys spring to action to tell everyone why it was a Bad Idea.

No one fucking cares--at least it's an idea; what do you have?

Housing market is terrible.
Dems are offering Free Shit.
Trump offers easier payment terms.
Republicans offer Eat Shit, and besides "I ate shit and I survived."

Gosh, why are folks looking at the Dems?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 08:43 AM (T3zUV)

206 Huh one source says the name Aftyn or spelling variations started to be used in the late 20th Century as a given name but also claims it is of Irish/Gaelic origins meaning 'little fair one.'

Make up your mind.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2025 08:43 AM (+k/kq)

207 Candace has ignored good advice, and gone Full Retard:
“BREAKING: Candace Owens just dropped the mother of all conspiracy bombshells on her show:

“Charlie Kirk was assassinated because I was *this close* to exposing the ultimate truth: Brigitte Macron was a subject in the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment. The French government took him out to protect her secret. I had the documents. They’re gone now.”

(Of course the “evidence” is gone now)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 08:35 AM (ngbZu)
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If any of this is even remotely true (it's not), then why wasn't *she* assassinated? Owens is claiming SHE was about to release the documents.

What does that have to do with Charlie Kirk?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 25, 2025 08:44 AM (IBQGV)

208 DOGE being decentralized hasn't stopped them. They in the last couple of weeks ended a number of programs.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 08:44 AM (bfwj/)

209 (Of course the “evidence” is gone now)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 08:35 AM (ngbZu)

Tom, you should know better than this by now!

Criticizing a barking mad lunatic like Owens is exactly the same as deplatforming her and you are destroying free speech just as surely as the Left does whenever you utter a discouraging word about her, and you're also an unwitting tool of Benjamin Netanyahu.

Get it straight, pal.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 08:44 AM (BI5O2)

210 181 Prices down , but so are purchases in latest report. Lingering effects of shutdown? Market up
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 08:36 AM (bfwj/)

If you don't pay 10% of the workforce (between direct fed workers and private sector contractors who have contracts with fed gov) for 6 weeks, you can tank all sales (I'm sure that's why I got such a good new car deal). And while fed gov was finally made whole, all the contractors were not, so expect that to weigh on the entire holiday season.

Add on removing the free money and spending of the illegals. Now, you've accelerated the effect.

I wasn't kidding when I said it was obvious Christmas was gonna be poor for companies. That said, prices should not rise, so in the long term, this will be good for the average American. But the economic sales news in the short term will be poor.

Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2025 08:44 AM (tOcjL)

211 The real deal, is in the era of Social media and instant attention, all these GOP House members want to be Senators and join the elite club. MTG wanted to run for Senate, Trump said no

Posted by: Jonah at November 25, 2025 08:44 AM (YCxFk)

212 Candace has ignored good advice, and gone Full Retard:
“BREAKING: Candace Owens just dropped the mother of all conspiracy bombshells on her show:

“Charlie Kirk was assassinated because I was *this close* to exposing the ultimate truth: Brigitte Macron was a subject in the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment. The French government took him out to protect her secret. I had the documents. They’re gone now.”

(Of course the “evidence” is gone now)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 08:35 AM (ngbZu)
********
If her followers believe this latest lie, then they are the dumbest people on the planet.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2025 08:45 AM (NpAcC)

213 194 Interesting that after a month of spreading chaos, the three biggest alt-right (or is it woke right?) stars are all collapsing. Candace Owens is the most obvious psychological burnout, disgusting everyone with her attempt to make Charlie Kirk’s murder All About Her. Tucker is sinking into defense of the cartels as his producer is invited to Qatar to get new orders (yes, that is happening)
And that malignant little gay troll Fuentes is now praising the radical left and inviting them to help him overthrow society.
Oh yes roll models all.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 08:41 AM (ngbZu)

Election is over - not needed anymore til next Sept/Oct...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2025 08:46 AM (tOcjL)

214 @EndWokeness
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: "We can't jail our way out of vioIence... it's racist"

https://tinyurl.com/9y67djek
Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2025 08:41 AM (NpAcC)


Bass ackward thinking.

I have family up there. Heard from them yesterday. First of the year, they're pushing for Texas. They've spent their entire lives in the Chitcago area. They have had enough.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)

215 If her followers believe this latest lie, then they are the dumbest people on the planet.
Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2025 08:45 AM (NpAcC)
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It's really sad when the lunatics over at Democrat Underground sound smarter...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 25, 2025 08:46 AM (IBQGV)

216 Appreciated that Laura Loomer exposed many deep staters in Trumps gubmint, but i refuse to follow her anymore. Now calling the GOP the Nazi party? She is crazy looking for clickbait

Posted by: Jonah at November 25, 2025 08:46 AM (YCxFk)

217 It will be amusing to see the reaction of Mamdani’s fans and supporters when it turns out he was just a modern PT Barnum selling them beautiful dreams that he had no real plan of ever accomplishing. (Other than “well maybe something magic will happen!)

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 08:46 AM (ngbZu)

218 There’s a river Afton in Scotland. Maybe the name is just a variant spelling of that.

It’s a nice name, if you ask me.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 08:47 AM (77rzZ)

219 >> “We wanted to explain to members of the military that we have their backs”

No what they’re looking to do is foment disunity and confusion in the ranks, and create situations where service members question their orders. A few of them even followed up by giving Venezuela as an example. They are directly involving themselves in matters in which they have zero authority, and suggesting that anyone involved in following those orders will be persecuted. They are also projecting, saying that officers are seeking advice from the JAG, so as not to be prosecuted in the future. But that’s total bullshit and they know it. There is almost always a JAG in the chain who is overseeing these operations.

This is all a little rich coming from Democrats who just weaponized the government against the people during COVID and then used the courts, DoJ and every auspice of government to spy and put on trial anyone opposing them.

Kelly knows better and so does that asshole Crow. The type of behavior and rhetoric they are involved in is explicitly what the UCMJ is meant to prevent.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 25, 2025 08:47 AM (xZEBF)

220 Can you imagine if some loon took out Candace now? The conspiracy theories would rival the assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 08:47 AM (bfwj/)

221 Denmark has long been a shining model as one of the world's happiest countries, with a generous welfare state. So why – and how – has it become a model of a very different kind: as a nation with some of the harshest immigration laws in Europe?

Immigration laws in Denmark are far from tough enough. It is vital that Denmark and the EU limit the power of these outdated activist human-rights courts, institutions from another era, that block further tightening and remigration policies.

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 08:48 AM (RHGPo)

222 Can you imagine if some loon took out Candace now? The conspiracy theories would rival the assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 08:47 AM (bfwj/)


I would NOT be shocked if this is her end game. Martyrdom. It would make it all worth it to her. She just seems that type.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 08:48 AM (Zz0t1)

223 Why is Candace so obsessed with Mrs. Macron?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 08:48 AM (77rzZ)

224 Bass ackward thinking.

I have family up there. Heard from them yesterday. First of the year, they're pushing for Texas. They've spent their entire lives in the Chitcago area. They have had enough.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)
******
Hopefully, they're conservative and vote accordingly.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2025 08:48 AM (NpAcC)

225
I'm SO tired of all the "I'VE GOT ALL THE PROOF!!!!!! I'll be releasing it on Tuesday the 24th........"

Once you recognize that the Renaissance is over, that human thinking has ceased, most "innovations" now are fiction and fraudulent research papers, that nearly everything you read is carefully curated crowdsourced rage bait used not for information but for contact engagement, then you will retreat to an isolated cave, away from the madness, and immerse yourself in the classics.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 08:48 AM (a4flb)

226 It will be amusing to see the reaction of Mamdani’s fans and supporters when it turns out he was just a modern PT Barnum selling them beautiful dreams that he had no real plan of ever accomplishing. (Other than “well maybe something magic will happen!)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 08:46 AM (ngbZu)
====
"Someone Else's Fault"
"Bad Luck"
"Unexpected Challenges"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 08:49 AM (CA6zO)

227 Aftyn Behn sounds like one of those silly made up names the Babylon Bee uses for their stock "local millennial doofus" characters.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 08:49 AM (BI5O2)

228 'republican' congresspeoples' needs are not being met? So they resign? The spice must flow.

Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2025 08:49 AM (LHPAg)

229 If her followers believe this latest lie, then they are the dumbest people on the planet.
Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2025 08:45 AM (NpAcC)

Candace is trying to pull a Jussie Smollett without even bothering to go to the trouble of staging a scene.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 08:49 AM (ngbZu)

230 214. Sponge the big money in Chicago area is the North Shore suburbs. After the shooting at the XMAS tree lighting in the Loop, nobody up this way wants to do any shopping down there for the Holidays

Posted by: Jonah at November 25, 2025 08:49 AM (YCxFk)

231 223 Why is Candace so obsessed with Mrs. Macron?
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 08:48 AM (77rzZ)

B/c her foreign payers want to tweak Macron, and not just the US.

Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2025 08:49 AM (tOcjL)

232 Ukraine Tentatively Agrees To Trump-Backed Peace Plan, Sending Oil Sliding

Secret talks with Russians also happening in Abu Dhabi

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 08:49 AM (RHGPo)

233 Aftyn seems to be one of those 'trendy' names parents bestow upon their children.

"We want to empower them by making even their name unique. blah blah blah"

Look where it got Aftyn, power mad Democrat.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2025 08:50 AM (+k/kq)

234 216 Appreciated that Laura Loomer exposed many deep staters in Trumps gubmint, but i refuse to follow her anymore. Now calling the GOP the Nazi party? She is crazy looking for clickbait
Posted by: Jonah at November 25, 2025 08:46 AM (YCxFk)

You mean Laura Looney ?

Posted by: It's me donna at November 25, 2025 08:50 AM (VE6XX)

235 GOP's worst enemy, is the GOPe. We can never circle the wagons, because too many Greedy business men and women want their gold

Posted by: Jonah at November 25, 2025 08:51 AM (YCxFk)

236 Off topic, as usual…
I bought a twenty dollar Nativity Scene at Wal-Mart, partly in order to display my “Caganer” figurine.
El Caganer is a feature of Nativity Scenes in Catalonia (Northeast Spain) he is a little guy wearing the traditional Catalan cap. He is squatting over with pants down to take a dump.

Posted by: Fenderbender at November 25, 2025 08:51 AM (1FEc1)

237 That Behn chick was on a podcast saying she wants vans sent out to kill your kids now. An “at home” service. I bet she will win on this. The left realizes there is no relevant pushback, no electoral negative consequences to any of their ideas. You are not going to shame the people away from voting suicide. They’ve embraced it.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 08:51 AM (3uBP9)

238 Cornyn Polling TANKS Despite MILLIONS Spent in Texas GOP Primary.
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LOL, his ads are all "voted with Trump 99% of the time."

And I think all it's done is make people ask, "but what is that 1%?"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 08:51 AM (T3zUV)

239 >>@DOGE


>>As usual, this is fake news from @Reuters. President Trump was given a mandate by the American people to modernize the federal government and reduce waste, fraud and abuse. Just last week, DOGE terminated 78 wasteful contracts and saved taxpayers $335M. We’ll be back in a few days with our regularly scheduled Friday update. 🇺🇸

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2025 08:51 AM (viF8m)

240 Would Candace be more believable if she got Jack'd in the Box?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2025 08:52 AM (+k/kq)

241 234. Yes Donna. Use to follow her on Twitter, now she is bat shite crazy.

Posted by: Jonah at November 25, 2025 08:52 AM (YCxFk)

242 Why Did Democrats Suddenly Go Quiet On Epstein Files?

Epstein Backfire Intensifies: He Was Live-Texting With House Democrat During 2019 'Get Trump' Hearing

Democrats' Epstein Email Dump Backfires As Trump Sets DoJ On Clinton, Summers, Hoffman, Et Al.

$1.2 Billion Suspicious Epstein Transactions? Wyden Demands Investigation After JP Morgan Failed To Report For Years

Democrat Plaskett Digs Deeper Grave On Epstein Ties

Jasmine Crockett Shares List Of Republicans Who Took Money From Epstein - Only Problem - It Was A Different Epstein!

Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 08:52 AM (RHGPo)

243 This is just weird. Why was I waiting for the Book Thread this morning??

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 25, 2025 08:52 AM (uQesX)

244 Immigration laws in Denmark are far from tough enough. It is vital that Denmark and the EU limit the power of these outdated activist human-rights courts, institutions from another era, that block further tightening and remigration policies.
Posted by: SMOD at November 25, 2025 08:48 AM (RHGPo)


Denmark is a soft EU member. They still have their own currency and government. They tax the F*CK out of everything and it's EXTREMELY expensive to live there, but the've been 'trained' from generation to generation that they have it the best, so they believe it.

I work for a Danish company. Political conversations are enlightening to say the least.

They are not free by any means, but feel everything is grand. They're fine with paying 5x more for everything because they get paid 5x as much and get everything else for free!!!!

They pay 150% tax on cars. New cars, used cars, no matter. 150%. And if you try to buy one from a neighboring country and import it, it's worse.

Hey, but healthcare and education are FREE, so.......

In a country of 7 million people. That speak a language that no one else speaks.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 08:52 AM (Zz0t1)

245 Yum-Yum Swalwell Huffs and Puffs, But Won’t Blow Trump’s Ballroom Down
________
Yum-Yum was Japanese. Like Poo-Bah.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 25, 2025 08:52 AM (s0JqF)

246 And is Matt Van Epps-who's running against, " I am so country I was conceived after a George Strait concert " making fun of Ms . Behn in ads?. I hope so.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 08:52 AM (ZeH0U)

247 It's like that saying:
Add a teaspoon of sewage to a barrel of wine, and you have a barrel of sewage.
Add a teaspoon of wine to a barrel of sewage, and you have a barrel of sewage.

That 1% you vote against Trump can be kind of a big deal, John.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 08:53 AM (T3zUV)

248 Vans to kill kids?

Is Aftyn a member of PETA?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2025 08:53 AM (+k/kq)

249 Aftyn Behn is probably a jackyl's spirit animal

Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2025 08:53 AM (LHPAg)

250 Croyn is a sure winner in the GE though. Paxton is a strong conservative, but makes that race a tossup, and we need to keep the Senate, or not confirm another Judge

Posted by: Jonah at November 25, 2025 08:53 AM (YCxFk)

251 Why is Candace so obsessed with Mrs. Macron?
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 08:48 AM (77rzZ)

Why was Queeg obsessed with the strawberries? Sometimes the strawberries are the Jews, and sometimes the strawberries are an old French pedophile's putative ladyballs. No accounting for what a disorganized mind might fixate on.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 08:54 AM (BI5O2)

252 Did any blogger on this site have such terrible things to say about MTG before last week? It's sometimes hard to keep up with who is not of the body.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at November 25, 2025 08:54 AM (R86kT)

253 Even before then, it was painfully evident that all the GOP was good for whenever they controlled the majority if not all three branches of government was being seat warmers for the Democrats and never daring to lift a finger to reverse one iota of their agenda let alone slam on the brakes and put the crazy train in reverse.

I've said this before: A large number of Rs are only Rs because of the place they live. They'd love to be Ds, but can't win under that bloody banner, so they pretend to be Rs but do whatever they can to help their ideological kin.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 25, 2025 08:54 AM (uQesX)

254

Good morning, good people, from the Adirondacks, a segment of the most exceptional country on this planet.

May all effort from you in any matter result in maximal benefit to each, with commensurate egregious heartburn for the leftwit fungi.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 25, 2025 08:55 AM (vFbHf)

255 Cream of Rutabaga never really caught on.
Posted by: Campbell's Marketing Department at November 25, 2025 08:19 AM (XQo4F)

But it paired so well with tan wine!

Posted by: Frank Cannonball at November 25, 2025 08:55 AM (NcvvS)

256 This is just weird. Why was I waiting for the Book Thread this morning??
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 25, 2025 08:52 AM (uQesX)
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I dunno....Did you suddenly find yourself wearing pants without memory of putting them on?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 25, 2025 08:55 AM (IBQGV)

257 Cornyn Polling TANKS Despite MILLIONS Spent in Texas GOP Primary.
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LOL, his ads are all "voted with Trump 99% of the time."

And I think all it's done is make people ask, "but what is that 1%?"
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice


Anti 2nd Amendment

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2025 08:55 AM (PDBoZ)

258 The various poll groups have the Tennessee sp election as likely or mean Republican. People will show to vote against Behn

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 08:56 AM (bfwj/)

259 >>Croyn is a sure winner in the GE though. Paxton is a strong conservative, but makes that race a tossup, and we need to keep the Senate, or not confirm another Judge

Hard to expect different results from the GOP when people keep voting for the same old people.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2025 08:56 AM (viF8m)

260
And I think all it's done is make people ask, "but what is that 1%?"
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice


Anti 2nd Amendment
Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2025 08:55 AM (PDBoZ)

I would think that wouldn't go over well in Texas

Posted by: It's me donna at November 25, 2025 08:56 AM (VE6XX)

261 244 Actually, Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian are basically just variants of the same language. I believe that they’re all mutually intelligible.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 08:56 AM (77rzZ)

262 Good morning, good people, from the Adirondacks, a segment of the most exceptional country on this planet.


it is incredibly beautiful up there!

good morning all

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 08:57 AM (emBoF)

263 GOP hate us but only because we’re in the way of their grift. Nothing personal just business.

Dems also hate us, but it’s personal and they would happily put us all into trains.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 08:57 AM (HW6XE)

264 Did any blogger on this site have such terrible things to say about MTG before last week? It's sometimes hard to keep up with who is not of the body.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at November 25, 2025 08:54 AM (R86kT)
====

Yes. She was giving strange before last week.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 08:57 AM (CA6zO)

265 You should know that Rand Paul is very upset that Trump called out the Dems for their Sedition Ad.

And used harsher language against Trump than he's ever used against a Dem.

But he's totally full of principles. Or something.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 08:57 AM (T3zUV)

266 Aftyn Behn is probably a jackyl's spirit animal
Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2025 08:53 AM (

I ain't jacked my lumber since my chain saw Aftyn.

Posted by: Jackyl at November 25, 2025 08:57 AM (BI5O2)

267 Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 08:51 AM (3uBP9)

What does that mean? She wants vans to come do home abortion services?!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 08:57 AM (ZeH0U)

268 Cornyn is a piece of shit that needs to be put out to pasture. The 1% he doesn't vote with Trump is when it comes to the most liberal of agendas that screw Americans the hardest.

Sure, his commercials have some BP agent touting how "he's been on the front lines and he stands with border security."

I'm all in on Paxton. I'm done with the retreads. I'll even vote against Cruz next time around should someone of some f*cking value primaries him. Done with all of them.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 08:57 AM (Zz0t1)

269 I would NOT be shocked if this is her end game. Martyrdom. It would make it all worth it to her. She just seems that type.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 08:48 AM (Zz0t1)

If we want to pair armchair psychologists, it’s not hard to see that this is at the heart of her descent into what is obviously becoming a psychotic break. She was desperately jealous of Charlie Kirk, is even more jealous to see him revered as a kind of martyr among the people she sought to influence; and most toxic of all , she now hates Erica Kirk because Erica is getting the respect and admiration that Candace desperately craves.

And her entire world is now spiraling down that drain.

A secondary point of meltdown is that she used to work for Ben Shapiro, but they had a nasty personal fight and he fired her. So Candace decided that she was so insulted and hurt that it would never be enough to just hate one Jew; from then on she would hate All Jews of All Time, and do whatever she could to bring about the extermination of their line.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 08:58 AM (ngbZu)

270 >>> It will be amusing to see the reaction of Mamdani’s fans and supporters when it turns out he was just a modern PT Barnum selling them beautiful dreams that he had no real plan of ever accomplishing. (Other than “well maybe something magic will happen!)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 08:46 AM (ngbZu)


Didn’t they already vote for a commie tard that let his lesbian wife oops away a billion? I think they fully want the circus.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 08:58 AM (3uBP9)

271 LOL, his ads are all "voted with Trump 99% of the time."

So what do you call going along with the Demonic Party's obstruction including denial of political appointments? Exactly what part of Trump's EOs has anyone in all of Congress attempt to make into law? What elements of DOGE are being implemented now in Congress?

You barely passed B³ and are taking a victory lap?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 08:59 AM (a4flb)

272 Did any blogger on this site have such terrible things to say about MTG before last week? It's sometimes hard to keep up with who is not of the body.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at November 25, 2025 08:54 AM (R86kT

*raises hand*

I've been bashing that transparent, cheesy grifter for years, TYVM.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 08:59 AM (BI5O2)

273 The perfect add for anti Behn would be for George Strait to do an add for VanEpps

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 08:59 AM (bfwj/)

274 "I'm SO tired of all the "I'VE GOT ALL THE PROOF!!!!!! I'll be releasing it on Tuesday the 24th........"

But enough about Glenn Beck

Posted by: Oof! at November 25, 2025 08:59 AM (XQo4F)

275 Read JJs post. I guess we're not going back to regular order under the GOP. That's a shame. But maybe when Dems have a super-majority we'll get regular order, but it will be full bore on looting the makers, giving to the takers and dismantling the Constitution. Golden goose cooked. I usually can avoid the blackpill, but succumbed today.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 25, 2025 08:59 AM (Dv3i1)

276
A secondary point of meltdown is that she used to work for Ben Shapiro, but they had a nasty personal fight and he fired her. So Candace decided that she was so insulted and hurt that it would never be enough to just hate one Jew; from then on she would hate All Jews of All Time, and do whatever she could to bring about the extermination of their line.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 08:58 AM (ngbZu)


To be fair, Shapiro is a piece of shit, so there's that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 08:59 AM (Zz0t1)

277 I can understand that people don't want to have children , but anyone who says "I don't want kids. I want power" is NOT someone people should vote for.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 08:59 AM (ZeH0U)

278 I dunno....Did you suddenly find yourself wearing pants without memory of putting them on?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 25, 2025 08:55 AM (IBQGV)

I had pants on. This time.

Did you get my e-mail?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 25, 2025 09:00 AM (uQesX)

279 And used harsher language against Trump than he's ever used against a Dem.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 25, 2025 08:57 AM (T3zUV)

And this is the guy who's been nearly killed three times by the Left. What a clueless putz.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 25, 2025 09:00 AM (VnsnO)

280 >>> What does that mean? She wants vans to come do home abortion services?!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 08:57 AM (ZeH0U)


Yes, exactly that. Like exterminators, but for humanity.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 09:01 AM (3uBP9)

281 Wheat are those 1% votes? Was it nominees?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 09:01 AM (HW6XE)

282 "I'm SO tired of all the "I'VE GOT ALL THE PROOF!!!!!! I'll be releasing it on Tuesday the 24th........"

But enough about Glenn Beck
Posted by: Oof! at November 25, 2025 08:59 AM (XQo4F)


They ALL f*cking do it. Every. Single. One.

And way too often, it either gets stolen, lost, sued into classification or just straight up debunked before it comes out.

THEY ALL suck. The only one that has a modicum of success is OMG and no one seems to give a flying f*ck about what HE comes out with because NOTHING EVER HAPPENS. His one win was against ACORN.

ActBlue is STILL laundering money hand over fist and he had PLENTY of receipts showing how crooked they are.

No one gives a f*ck.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 09:02 AM (Zz0t1)

283 Didn’t they already vote for a commie tard that let his lesbian wife oops away a billion? I think they fully want the circus.

I want the circus.

Forget this coy flirting, the teen ager foreplay, go balls deep into the unlubed ass of NYC residents and unload a full wad of diseased filth into them like they have begging for.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 09:02 AM (a4flb)

284 Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 08:57 AM (CA6zO)
I don't understand this. What is "giving strange?"

Do you mean Ace or one of the co-bloggers ever referred to her as a grifting lying egomaniacal attention whore? I mean before last week.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at November 25, 2025 09:02 AM (R86kT)

285 And I think all it's done is make people ask, "but what is that 1%?"
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice


Anti 2nd Amendment
Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2025 08:55 AM (PDBoZ)

I would think that wouldn't go over well in Texas
Posted by: It's me donna


Like a fart in church.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2025 09:03 AM (PDBoZ)

286 Real communism has never been tried.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Translation:
We deserve to govern with unlimited power since it our turn.
Posted by: r hennigantx


*cough cough Lenin & Stalin had unlimited power. They could even kill millions cough cough*
Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2025 08:38 AM (PDBoZ)

Sadly, everyone replying to my "real communism" statement aren't including the quote to which I was replying - "History repeats itself. But only the bad parts."

Without that it misses the point.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 09:03 AM (ExV1e)

287 I always thought MTG was a joke, and she gave off spoiled former sorority ho vibes, big time.

but I kept my mouth shut bc, that was basically a bitchy reaction as women have lol.

now I know she's a selfish twat.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 09:03 AM (emBoF)

288 What Madmani needs for NYC is some Vitalety:

https://tinyurl.com/mrx8kvut

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2025 09:04 AM (xC2Ng)

289 Did any blogger on this site have such terrible things to say about MTG before last week? It's sometimes hard to keep up with who is not of the body.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at November 25, 2025 08:54 AM (R86kT)
====

Yes. She was giving strange before last week.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 08:57 AM (CA6zO)
******
Yes, many of us could see through her grandstanding pretty early on.

She's a whack job like Laura Loomer. Once in a while they get things right, but most of the time they're an embarrassment.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2025 09:04 AM (NpAcC)

290 I saw Selfish Twat open for Wet Leg at Collin County Fairgrounds in 2019.

Good thing covid happened..........woo nellie.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 09:05 AM (Zz0t1)

291 Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 09:02 AM (a4flb)

That was quite something.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 09:05 AM (ZeH0U)

292 268. Sponge, I agree a 100%. And i like Paxton, but the shite with his wife is awful. We have to keep the Senate at all costs, And Cronyn is a weasel, but always votes to confirm Judges. If Dems take Senate, they will block every nomination, and that includes Supreme Court

Posted by: Jonah at November 25, 2025 09:05 AM (YCxFk)

293 Didn’t they already vote for a commie tard that let his lesbian wife oops away a billion? I think they fully want the circus.

I want the circus.

Forget this coy flirting, the teen ager foreplay, go balls deep into the unlubed ass of NYC residents and unload a full wad of diseased filth into them like they have begging for.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure


Gee Mr. Lamarr, you use your mouth prettier than a twenty dollar whore!

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2025 09:05 AM (PDBoZ)

294 Like a fart in church.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2025 09:03 AM (PDBoZ)
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Pew!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2025 09:05 AM (xC2Ng)

295 250 Croyn is a sure winner in the GE though. Paxton is a strong conservative, but makes that race a tossup, and we need to keep the Senate, or not confirm another Judge
Posted by: Jonah at November 25, 2025 08:53 AM (YCxFk)

Anyone who wins the Primary is a sure winner - you realize that the Dems are going to run Jasmine Crockett, don’t you? And I’m not joking, she is way ahead in all Texas Dem party polls.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 09:06 AM (ngbZu)

296 Texas isn’t “Texas” Anymore.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 09:06 AM (HW6XE)

297 I have totally given up on the idea that there will ever be a sane health care policy primarily because it has been "accepted as the status quo" that the Malthusians who hate you and see you as defective livestock expect to maintain absolute tyrannical control over who gets medical treatment and who does not.

Sane health care policy will never occur because significantly more than 50% of the voters belong to one of the following groups: I shouldn't ever have to pay for anything, I get government worker healthcare so I don't care, or Did you see the size of my quarterly bonus? Push those pills!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 09:06 AM (ExV1e)

298 MTG is a elected member of Congress, we cant compare her to crazy Loomer. Greene put skin in the game, but she lost her mind during shutdown, because House was not in session, and she wanted Limelight

Posted by: Jonah at November 25, 2025 09:07 AM (YCxFk)

299 He backs defunding as a short term and long-term path to abolition, opposes criminalizing drugs, sex work, homelessness, and immigration offenses, and promotes a socialist public-safety model built on taxing the wealthy, expanding welfare, and replacing enforcement with redistribution.
@DanBurmawy


Good luck NYC!


No. REAP it, NYC. You asked for it. I sincerely hope you get it. Good and hard.

Wallow in the stye you created.

I shed no tears, but will pray for The Lord to have mercy on your souls.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 09:07 AM (Zz0t1)

300 Did any blogger on this site have such terrible things to say about MTG before last week? It's sometimes hard to keep up with who is not of the body.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at November 25, 2025 08:54 AM (R86kT)
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Yes I see you have a hard time keeping up.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 25, 2025 09:07 AM (KDPiq)

301 To my detriment, I ignored the small but vocal minority of GWB's detractors, and voted for that pig in 2004. In my defense, I was young, and it was my first Presidential election. By 2008, I had totally accepted that they were right, and I was dead wrong.

If you were taken in by MTG's cheesy grift, just accept that you got hustled and move on. Shit happens.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 09:07 AM (BI5O2)

302 I have nothing against Wesley Hunt, the third candidate in the Texas primary against Paxton and Cornyn. I just worry he’s a little too unknown.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 09:08 AM (ngbZu)

303 295. Tom, I respect you and Sponge's opinion. Hope you are right. Just do not want another Todd Akin situation

Posted by: Jonah at November 25, 2025 09:09 AM (YCxFk)

304 (LifeSiteNews) — The U.S. State Department has been working with the Soros family for at least 50 years, Mike Benz demonstrated using diplomatic cables published to Wikileaks.

Benz, a former deputy assistant secretary at the U.S. State Department, explained in a video posted to X on Sunday that he searched for the terms “Soros” and “Open Society Foundations,” which was created by Soros, in Wikileaks’ collection of diplomatic cables. His goal was to “create a comprehensive tapestry of all U.S. state department involvement with Soros and the Open Society Foundations in every country in the world.”

The former state department official, now the executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online, wanted to document why it was said that George Soros is treated by the U.S. like an “independent entity” akin to a country.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 25, 2025 09:09 AM (Dv3i1)

305 Texas isn’t “Texas” Anymore.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 09:06 AM (HW6XE)

What does that even mean? You know Texas was a Democrat run state before 1994 Right?

Posted by: the way I see it at November 25, 2025 09:09 AM (KDPiq)

306 90% of health care costs are not paid by the user. The entire system is fucked from that alone. Imagine when you went shop g for a car you had no idea what the price was but you also didn’t care because you didn’t pay for it. You’d buy the loaded BMW because why not? That’s health care.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 09:09 AM (HW6XE)

307 What does it mean if you were conceived at a Culture Club concert?

That your name is "Garrett?"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 25, 2025 09:09 AM (ufSfZ)

308 Did any blogger on this site have such terrible things to say about MTG before last week? It's sometimes hard to keep up with who is not of the body.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at November 25, 2025 08:54 AM (R86kT)


We tend to support the right leaning pols right up to the point they Amber Heard.

You seem to think that's a bad thing, I take it. When your pols you back and support stabbing you in the back and reacting appropriately.

That's fine. You do you, boo.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 09:10 AM (Zz0t1)

309 Heh...I just looked at that painting by Goya!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2025 09:10 AM (n9ltV)

310
That your name is "Garrett?"
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 25, 2025 09:09 AM (ufSfZ)


Heh. *fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 09:10 AM (Zz0t1)

311 301 2004 was your first election?

YD, you must vacate my lawn forthwith.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 09:10 AM (77rzZ)

312 Know this may sound a little R word, but we do not have a good record with Black Conservatives winning state wide. Hope that changes with Byron Donald etc..

Posted by: Jonah at November 25, 2025 09:10 AM (YCxFk)

313 Sadly, everyone replying to my "real communism" statement aren't including the quote to which I was replying - "History repeats itself. But only the bad parts."

Without that it misses the point.

I have referred to that effect as "The Devil's Groundhog Day" where the protagonist has a brand new day every day to experiment to see what works and what doesn't work until he eventually threads together the perfect series and beds the girl.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 09:10 AM (a4flb)

314 Hell with them. I'm tired of the hissy fits.

Posted by: Case at November 25, 2025 09:11 AM (5Je/N)

315 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 09:07 AM (BI5O2)

Bush, everyone’s favorite boogeyman.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 25, 2025 09:11 AM (KDPiq)

316 Strangegivings would be a great name for an elder horror feast. Turduckins with octopus tentacles, purple and green dyed stuffing, cthulhu under the gravy dreaming, king in yellow fruit salad,…

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 09:11 AM (3uBP9)

317 >>The former state department official, now the executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online, wanted to document why it was said that George Soros is treated by the U.S. like an “independent entity” akin to a country.

Virtually all of Soros' wealth came from working with the CIA/State Dept. both in direct payment and by knowing the outcome of large international events before they happened.

It's easy to be a financial genius when the game is rigged.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2025 09:12 AM (viF8m)

318 Texas isn’t “Texas” Anymore.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 09:06 AM (HW6XE)

What does that even mean? You know Texas was a Democrat run state before 1994 Right?
Posted by: the way I see it at November 25, 2025 09:09 AM (KDPiq)

A Democrat in 1994 is a 100 light years away from a Democrat in 2025.

What it means is that you can’t assume the mostest conservatist candidate will win. It’s not you fathers Texas as the Oldsmobile commercials used to say.

And not just talking the mesicanization of Texas. I’m talking all the tech bros who moved there from California, the H1Bs, etc.


Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 09:12 AM (HW6XE)

319 Appreciated that Laura Loomer exposed many deep staters in Trumps gubmint, but i refuse to follow her anymore. Now calling the GOP the Nazi party?

Posted by: Jonah at November 25, 2025 08:46 AM (YCxFk)
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Loomer said no such thing:

https://tinyurl.com/5n6je66r

Loomer gets many more things right that wrong and she's dug up some serious corruption stories.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2025 09:13 AM (xC2Ng)

320
RNC Research
@RNCResearch
NEWLY UNCOVERED

In 2020, Democrat Aftyn Behn claimed men can "give birth."

BEHN: "I think we have as birthers... men and women who can give birth... we can maybe leverage that as collective bargaining."

https://tinyurl.com/yxbjwdhh

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2025 09:13 AM (NpAcC)

321 Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 09:12 AM (HW6XE)

You have no idea what you’re talking about.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 25, 2025 09:13 AM (KDPiq)

322 I have nothing against Wesley Hunt, the third candidate in the Texas primary against Paxton and Cornyn. I just worry he’s a little too unknown.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 09:08 AM (ngbZu)

I'm not Texan, so it's not my fight. But if I were, he'd be my primary vote, because McConnell and Thune oppose him, and I support who they oppose, and if his candidacy serves to do nothing but squander RSCC resources in a painful runoff to save that stupid cuck Cornyn, that's still a positive.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 09:14 AM (BI5O2)

323 Progressive Aftyn Behn Is ~2,000 Votes Short Of Winning The TN7 House Special Election For An R+22 Seat, Considering Calling Voters In Nashville To Get Out The Vote And Send A MAGA Chud Personally Endorsed By Trump Packing

Is she accepting aipac money? If she is, I am not voting for aipac candidate. Voting for candidates that support registering aipac as a foreign agent

100% you are some Indian/Nigerian in a bot farm. We saw the location update on Twitter

She's getting hit for saying negative things about country music, but it hasn't been country since before Garth. I mean, the "country music" she's been subjected to is a Late-Stage Capitalism product. I had the same nitpick, then (insert 'I'll allow it' meme here)

I hate this city too. That's why I'm voting for her! I've seen Middle Tennessee become worse and worse my whole life. We're done waiting for the Republicans to help their people instead of their pockets.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 25, 2025 09:15 AM (EnKfA)

324 90% of health care costs are not paid by the user.

Then what in hell do you call the $1k/mo premiums and the $10k annual deductible with a 80% coverage?

Each year, every year, unless they decide to jack rates up even further and reduce benefits to the vanishing point?

That is paying for unrealized healthcare via retainer with monthly payments with a huge balloon payment at the end.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 09:15 AM (a4flb)

325 > Appreciated that Laura Loomer exposed many deep staters in Trumps gubmint, but i refuse to follow her anymore. Now calling the GOP the Nazi party? She is crazy looking for clickbait
Posted by: Jonah at November 25, 2025 08:46 AM (YCxFk)

You mean Laura Looney ?
Posted by: It's me donna at November 25, 2025 08:50 AM (VE6XX)
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She is a nut. However she rightly pointed out that the vetting processes in Trump's administration suck donkey balls. The people responsible for vetting several, high level appointees and advisors either didn't vet them, or (more likely) knew who and what they are and still vetted them for the position(s).

A current vetted appointee and topic of conversations about their true motives is the Secretary of the Army, Dan Driscoll. It's alleged that he's been warming up to the Bear Claw Brothers and some associates fixated on color revolutions. Here. Not abroad.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2025 09:15 AM (NwnyJ)

326 Did any blogger on this site have such terrible things to say about MTG before last week? It's sometimes hard to keep up with who is not of the body.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at November 25, 2025 08:54 AM (R86kT)

Take that shit elsewhere. Dropping a "just asking a question" thing that is a passive aggressive accusation. Trying to get people to defend something without providing examples of what you're supposedly accusing them of. Regular readers around here know full well there is no "of the body". We all disagree about a lot of issues and politicians. Sometimes people who we all generally like do things we generally don't like. If you have a take on something or someone, then express it.

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2025 09:15 AM (Ltmlv)

327 DOGE = Musk Musk = DOGE

He was always on a short-term contract. The rules required it, and he needs to get to Mars.

Have you noticed the continued drip of news exposing bad shit and naming names? That's Surfer Girl Tulsi using the NSA, a process started by Musk's DOGE.

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 25, 2025 09:16 AM (dtajH)

328 >>> Heh...I just looked at that painting by Goya!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2025 09:10 AM (n9ltV)


They can beans AND PAINT? !!

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 09:17 AM (3uBP9)

329 It will be amusing to see the reaction of Mamdani’s fans and supporters when it turns out he was just a modern PT Barnum selling them beautiful dreams that he had no real plan of ever accomplishing. (Other than “well maybe something magic will happen!)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 08:46 AM (ngbZu)
====
"Someone Else's Fault"
"Bad Luck"
"Unexpected Challenges"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 08:49 AM (CA6zO)

"THE RICH WON'T PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE!"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 25, 2025 09:17 AM (ufSfZ)

330 The electoral problem on the populist Right is the increasing and virulent cynicism. Scan the comments sections of popular sites -- Kelly will never face a court martial, Comey will never face a jury, Bondi is useless, corrupt judges are stymieng Trump's ever move, etc. Psy-ops all? People turned out in 2024 with high hopes for righteous retribution and political purgatives (not for bombing Iran, or settling seven wars, or tariffs). Call that immature, unrealistic, irrational, whatever. It's reality. The increasing sense in the grassroots is that the promise of avenging reform (not because conservatives or MAGA people are hateful but simply because they crave justice after a decade of relentless abuses) is dying.

Cynicism does not inspire turnout. Without Trump on the ballot, without some major morale-boosting retributive victories, the midterms look bleak.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 25, 2025 09:17 AM (VnsnO)

331 321 Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 09:12 AM (HW6XE)

You have no idea what you’re talking about.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 25, 2025 09:13 AM (KDPiq)

So you’re saying the demographics of Texas 2025 vs 1994 hasn’t affected the political makeup of the state? OK. You believe that if it makes you steel better.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 09:17 AM (HW6XE)

332 Bush, everyone’s favorite boogeyman.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 25, 2025 09:11 AM (KDPiq)

Not a boogeyman. Just a terrible President, and a fine exemplar of what's wrong with the GOP.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 09:17 AM (BI5O2)

333 Dropping a "just asking a question" thing that is a passive aggressive accusation.

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2025 09:15 AM (Ltmlv)
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But Candyass Owen uses this method all of the time!!!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2025 09:18 AM (xC2Ng)

334 From a commentor on the Soros piece -

The last 5 minutes of this Mike Benz video explain the funding track: (link below) Soros has major holdings in Halliburton, where Cheney was CEO before becoming VP. The company is infamous for no-bid construction contracts with the US military in Iraq worth billions. It has also received US contracts for projects in Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and other countries. Soros makes his fortune in the military-industrial cronyism network, through pressure campaigns by the CIA, Dept. of State and other US government agencies, all with US tax dollars. Then he uses his profits to fund revolutionary causes and socialist political candidates in the country that made him rich. Sometimes evil just makes no sense.

https://tinyurl.com/3nb8wzy3

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 25, 2025 09:18 AM (Dv3i1)

335 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 09:10 AM (Zz0t1)

I will do me thank you. It's a great thing to be, not being a drone in a hive mind. And you do you. I enjoy your contributions of First!

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at November 25, 2025 09:18 AM (R86kT)

336 A Democrat in 1994 is a 100 light years away from a Democrat in 2025.

Ma Richards was a 100 light years away from Jasmine Crocket?

More like next-door-neighbors.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 09:19 AM (a4flb)

337 "Tennessee Dem Candidate Aftyn Behn: ‘I Don’t Want Children. I Want Power!’"

As bad as her screaming that is her dreams even more disturbing is her telling her therapist about it and not even bring embarrassed to admit she has a therapist.(How many meds is she on?) To me, that means she has severe mental issues and is not to be trusted with public office.

Of course , in today's culture having a therapist is not considered negative and many, especially young women, gladly talk about it, and all their meds.

Posted by: Ripley at November 25, 2025 09:19 AM (GUOwU)

338 Posted by: Ordinary American at November 25, 2025 09:17 AM (VnsnO

That’s just making excuses for dumb ass supposed conservative voters.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 25, 2025 09:19 AM (KDPiq)

339 I would certainly warn against setting unrealistic expectations

Posted by: Geraldo Rivera at November 25, 2025 09:19 AM (Bo9Yf)

340 "Didn’t they already vote for a commie tard that let his lesbian wife oops away a billion? I think they fully want the circus."

Spot on. Mamdami's inner circle will do well.

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 25, 2025 09:20 AM (dtajH)

341 Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2025 09:15 AM (Ltmlv)

Sorry I will clear my comments with you in the future.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at November 25, 2025 09:20 AM (R86kT)

342 The increasing sense in the grassroots is that the promise of avenging reform (not because conservatives or MAGA people are hateful but simply because they crave justice after a decade of relentless abuses) is dying.

—

Because we were once again lied to.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 09:20 AM (HW6XE)

343 Posted by: Ted Torgerson at November 25, 2025 09:18 AM (R86kT)

You sound like a drone , hive minded person to me. You just don’t have the self awareness to see it. You are just the flip side of the coin you accuse others of.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 25, 2025 09:21 AM (KDPiq)

344 That is paying for unrealized healthcare via retainer with monthly payments with a huge balloon payment at the end.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

The healthcare is realized!

But not by the person paying the premium. (see Illegals: 'free' health care)

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 25, 2025 09:21 AM (Dv3i1)

345 Dropping a "just asking a question" thing that is a passive aggressive accusation.

Yeah, but that triggers a certain demographic and then the long knives come out.

Some things are forbidden and taboo and can never be discussed. If you do, it must be in a deep closet with the radio and water running to mask any sounds.

That is today's "conservative" party.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 09:22 AM (a4flb)

346 Not a boogeyman. Just a terrible President, and a fine exemplar of what's wrong with the GOP.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 09:17 AM (BI5O2)

But he was so folksy and cut wood at his ranch. He even drove a pickup truck. He’s like one is us!!

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 09:22 AM (HW6XE)

347 >>Cynicism does not inspire turnout. Without Trump on the ballot, without some major morale-boosting retributive victories, the midterms look bleak.

Some of us who were around for Reagan know that his first year was filling with cynicism and doubt because policies don't always give results overnight. He then when on to be one of the most beloved presidents in history once his policies starting kicking in.

Inflation came in again below expectations, down to 2.6%, and a lot of the stuff in the BBB doesn't kick in till next year. There is an entire year until the midterms, we aren't even 1 year into Trump's term. Let's see how things develop.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2025 09:22 AM (viF8m)

348 "Did any blogger on this site have such terrible things to say about MTG before last week? It's sometimes hard to keep up with who is not of the body.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson"

We always knew she is a kook, but she was our kook. Now she's not our kook.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 09:22 AM (vFG9F)

349
I will do me thank you. It's a great thing to be, not being a drone in a hive mind. And you do you. I enjoy your contributions of First!
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at November 25, 2025 09:18 AM (R86kT)


I always do.

And to accuse me of being 'hive mind' shows you really don't pay much attention round these parts.

Welcome to troll status, sir. May you enjoy your stay.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 09:23 AM (Zz0t1)

350 Sooooo...according to NPR this morning, there's a draft memo circulating at Dept. of War directing all military branches to cut ties with The Organization Formerly Known As The Boy Scouts.

Legit? It's NPR, who the heck knows? I'm hearing the National HQ for TOFKATBS is taking it seriously, though, so maybe there's something to it...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at November 25, 2025 09:23 AM (OUMaO)

351 Because we were once again lied to.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 09:20 AM (HW6XE)

You are by far the biggest whiner at aos.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 25, 2025 09:23 AM (KDPiq)

352 Traitor, raving lunatic, egomaniacal attention whore, grifter...

One thing's for sure: NEVER step out of line with the Party. The one unforgivable sin is the sin of apostasy.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at November 25, 2025 09:23 AM (ERYKL)

353 We always knew she is a kook, but she was our kook. Now she's not our kook.
Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 09:22 AM (vFG9F)

You explained it perfectly

Posted by: It's me donna at November 25, 2025 09:24 AM (VE6XX)

354 Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0

6m
NEW: Minnesota judge has overturned a jury’s guilty verdict in a $7.2 million Medicaid fraud case.

Yusuf and his wife, Lul Ahmed, were accused of siphoning $7.2 million in taxpayer money through Medicaid overbilling in a personal care assistant scam. Prosecutors said the couple funneled tens of thousands of those funds into luxury purchases for themselves.

The jury convicted Yusuf but Judge Sarah West decided they got it wrong, tossing the verdict and issuing a judgment of acquittal.

One juror from the case was stunned by the judge’s decision, saying:
“I am shocked. I’m shocked based on all the evidence that was presented to us and the obvious guilt we saw from that evidence.”

https://tinyurl.com/mzbu56us

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2025 09:24 AM (NpAcC)

355 Because we were once again lied to.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 09:20 AM (HW6XE

Trump didn't lie to you. I've watched the man for years; he is sincere, no doubt in my mind. He's made tremendous efforts to right the ship.

The problem is the ship is doomed, and we have no ability to fix this within the current, utterly corrupted political system. We need to scuttle the old GOP hulk and find a new ship to board, because this ain't it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 09:24 AM (BI5O2)

356 Traitor, raving lunatic, egomaniacal attention whore, grifter...

One thing's for sure: NEVER step out of line with the Party. The one unforgivable sin is the sin of apostasy.
Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at November 25, 2025 09:23 AM (ERYKL)

So if she is all of those things we should just stay silent. Apparently you think she is none of those things.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 25, 2025 09:25 AM (KDPiq)

357 Then he uses his profits to fund revolutionary causes and socialist political candidates in the country that made him rich. Sometimes evil just makes no sense.
https://tinyurl.com/3nb8wzy3
Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 25, 2025 09:18 AM (Dv3i1)
~~~~~

No doubt Soros is a believer too, but he's funding these causes on behalf of the CIA, State Dept., etc. as well.

Posted by: IrishEi at November 25, 2025 09:25 AM (3ImbR)

358 C'mon everybody!

Let's give JJ's comment on Frontpage Magazine a thumbs up so that it reaches a trillion likes:

https://tinyurl.com/3snhcfvk

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2025 09:25 AM (xC2Ng)

359 ...even more disturbing is her telling her therapist about it and not even bring embarrassed to admit she has a therapist.(How many meds is she on?)

If she wants to represent her base and appear as "one of them", announcing you have a therapist and are on lots of mental health meds is mandatory for the Left. Probably gives her oppression/victim points, too, and maybe even neurodivergent status for the oppression pyramid!

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 25, 2025 09:25 AM (EnKfA)

360 Hive mind or not, you can have my golden Trump cult robe and matching fez when you pry them from my cold, dead hands.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 09:25 AM (77rzZ)

361 @ImMeme0

6m
NEW: Minnesota judge has overturned a jury’s guilty verdict in a $7.2 million Medicaid fraud case.


Check said judge's political donation roster.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 09:26 AM (Zz0t1)

362 To me, that means she has severe mental issues and is not to be trusted with public office.

When the monthly Rx deliveries to the Legislators' office requires an 18-wheeler, having severe mental issues and a dependency on a flight of daily psychotropics to stave off going Postal on your own staff, this turbo-sociopath seems to fit in quite well with the American people want out of their tyrants.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 09:26 AM (a4flb)

363 Sooooo...according to NPR this morning, there's a draft memo circulating at Dept. of War directing all military branches to cut ties with The Organization Formerly Known As The Boy Scouts.

Why?

Posted by: Tuna at November 25, 2025 09:26 AM (lJ0H4)

364 >>No doubt Soros is a believer too, but he's funding these causes on behalf of the CIA, State Dept., etc. as well.

King of the NGO cutouts.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2025 09:27 AM (viF8m)

365 The problem is the ship is doomed, and we have no ability to fix this within the current, utterly corrupted political system. We need to scuttle the old GOP hulk and find a new ship to board, because this ain't it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Are you saying Nikki Haley won't be the 2028 nominee? 😥

Posted by: The Bulwark at November 25, 2025 09:27 AM (EnKfA)

366 MTG didn't step out on the Party. She was a party loyal grifter who lavishly danced to McCarthy's gay little tune. Had she been an apostate, I might have liked her more.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 09:27 AM (BI5O2)

367 We always knew she is a kook, but she was our kook. Now she's not our kook.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 09:22 AM (vFG9F)

Yup.

Exactly.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2025 09:28 AM (n9ltV)

368 Free shit ain't free.

UPDATE: Zohran Mamdani voters can't believe their eyes as the communist KEEPS begging for money, announcing things can't actually be free.

-
Free shit's just another word for nothin' left to lose.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 09:28 AM (L/fGl)

369
Inflation came in again below expectations, down to 2.6%, and a lot of the stuff in the BBB doesn't kick in till next year. There is an entire year until the midterms, we aren't even 1 year into Trump's term. Let's see how things develop.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2025 09:22 AM (viF8m)


People didn’t vote for 2.6% inflation vs 2.9% inflation (which is what 2024 was) .They voted for mass deportations, mass cuts to government and America First or now new foreign entanglements.. Instead we go 600k Chinese students, the continued H1B scam, bombing Iran and looking to a war with Venezuela.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 09:28 AM (HW6XE)

370 >>> Legit? It's NPR, who the heck knows? I'm hearing the National HQ for TOFKATBS is taking it seriously, though, so maybe there's something to it...
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at November 25, 2025 09:23 AM (OUMaO)


I wouldn’t believe them. They’re just trying to head off something else, some other milder decision. But the BSA needs to be completely destroyed, to the ground, and replaced with actual boy scouts. Because boys in this anti male culture need that more than ever.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 09:28 AM (3uBP9)

371 Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0

6m
NEW: Minnesota judge has overturned a jury’s guilty verdict in a $7.2 million Medicaid fraud case.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2025 09:24 AM (NpAcC)
-

As I said yesterday, time to give a whole new meaning to the term "hanging judge."

Otherwise this will not end.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2025 09:29 AM (xC2Ng)

372 Sooooo...according to NPR this morning, there's a draft memo circulating at Dept. of War directing all military branches to cut ties with The Organization Formerly Known As The Boy Scouts.

Why?
Posted by: Tuna at November 25, 2025 09:26 AM (lJ0H4)


They've been taken over by the Mormon's and are allowing transexuals to declare maledom and join?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 09:29 AM (Zz0t1)

373 "90% of health care costs are not paid by the user.

Then what in hell do you call the $1k/mo premiums and the $10k annual deductible with a 80% coverage?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure"

This will not change until people accept that health insurance is not healthcare and should stop calling it that. Furthermore healthcare is not good health. That is mostly dependent on lifestyle (diet, drugs/alcohol use, exercise) but also genetics and life vents like injuries and major illnesses. Equating health insurance with good health is a mind trick politicians use to grow govt.

Posted by: Ripley at November 25, 2025 09:29 AM (GUOwU)

374 >>No doubt Soros is a believer too, but he's funding these causes on behalf of the CIA, State Dept., etc. as well.

I think when all is said and done what will be discovered is that Soros wasn't following the CIA/State game plan. He was the architect.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2025 09:29 AM (viF8m)

375 Way OT- I am making cornbread from a mix for TX I just read a little caution "Do not consume uncooked mix" . Uhh ohhh . If I die before tomorrow please try to say nice things about me. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 09:29 AM (looXz)

376 Check said judge's political donation roster.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 09:26 AM (Zz0t1)
*****
Leftwing judges are running and ruining this country.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2025 09:30 AM (NpAcC)

377 Sooooo...according to NPR this morning, there's a draft memo circulating at Dept. of War directing all military branches to cut ties with The Organization Formerly Known As The Boy Scouts.

Why?

Posted by: Tuna

Apparently it's over DEI concerns, which...dunno?

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at November 25, 2025 09:30 AM (OUMaO)

378 The problem is the ship is doomed, and we have no ability to fix this within the current, utterly corrupted political system.

On the positive side, humans are amazingly adaptable to even the most oppressive and humiliating environments.

We'll get by.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 09:30 AM (a4flb)

379 358 C'mon everybody!

Let's give JJ's comment on Frontpage Magazine a thumbs up so that it reaches a trillion likes:

https://tinyurl.com/3snhcfvk
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs

I did my part....it was up to 7! Just 299,999,999,993 more Morons needed!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 25, 2025 09:30 AM (EnKfA)

380 @358 Biden's Dog , I think it's working the like went from 1 to 8

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 09:31 AM (bfwj/)

381 375 Way OT- I am making cornbread from a mix for TX I just read a little caution "Do not consume uncooked mix" . Uhh ohhh . If I die before tomorrow please try to say nice things about me. Thanks.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

As long as you don't eat the whole thing, you didn't eat the whole thing, did you?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 25, 2025 09:31 AM (Dv3i1)

382 This thread is crying out for some cleansing.........



https://is.gd/bxIyAo

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

383 I did my part....it was up to 7! Just 299,999,999,993 more Morons needed!
Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 25, 2025 09:30 AM (EnKfA)


I was #4.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

384 373 "90% of health care costs are not paid by the user.

Then what in hell do you call the $1k/mo premiums and the $10k annual deductible with a 80% coverage?

At the point of sale you don’t pay. Therefore you don’t care about price.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 09:32 AM (HW6XE)

385 383 I did my part....it was up to 7! Just 299,999,999,993 more Morons needed!
Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 25, 2025 09:30 AM (EnKfA)


I did too

Posted by: It's me donna at November 25, 2025 09:32 AM (VE6XX)

386 On the positive side, humans are amazingly adaptable to even the most oppressive and humiliating environments.

We'll get by.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 09:30 AM (a4flb)

I still hold out some small hope we can fix things - but not as long as the Republican Party is sucking all the oxygen out of the MAGA movement. My point is what it's always been, that they are the Democrats most powerful weapon against reform.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 09:32 AM (BI5O2)

387 382 This thread is crying out for some cleansing.........



https://is.gd/bxIyAo
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

That's somebody's cute grandchild.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 25, 2025 09:32 AM (Dv3i1)

388 Leftwing judges are running and ruining this country.
Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2025 09:30 AM (NpAcC)


Yep. Sad but true.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

389 The us judical system is corrupt and they have no shame.

I point and laugh.

Posted by: Abolish the feral government at November 25, 2025 09:32 AM (t5X2c)

390
That's somebody's cute grandchild.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 25, 2025 09:32 AM (Dv3i1)


Not mine.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

391 I did my part....it was up to 7! Just 299,999,999,993 more Morons needed!
Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 25, 2025 09:30 AM (EnKfA)


***

#5

Posted by: Truck Monkey at November 25, 2025 09:33 AM (Bo9Yf)

392 6m
NEW: Minnesota judge has overturned a jury’s guilty verdict in a $7.2 million Medicaid fraud case.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2025 09:24 AM (NpAcC)

Medicare fraud would be Federal no ? Maybe the Feds can re-charge ?

Posted by: It's me donna at November 25, 2025 09:34 AM (VE6XX)

393 Is the judge in the Medicaid icase named Abdul
Ahmed Mohamed by chance?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 09:34 AM (HW6XE)

394 I think when all is said and done what will be discovered is that Soros wasn't following the CIA/State game plan. He was the architect.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2025 09:29 AM (viF8m)
~~~~~

That's altogether possible. Both he and his spawn are evil to the core. And if Slotkin is any indication, there aren't many Einsteins at CIA.

Posted by: IrishEi at November 25, 2025 09:35 AM (3ImbR)

395 And not just talking the mesicanization of Texas. I’m talking all the tech bros who moved there from California, the H1Bs, etc.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 09:12 AM

Musk was just bragging last week about Austin "booming"! 99% of the comments in response to his X post were people correcting him calling Austin one of the worst cities in Texas, because it is the most liberal, because, all the liberals from other states are moving there and turning it more and more liberal. Not to mention all the Indian H-1Bs.

https://bit.ly/48zMn3Z

Add to that the Muslim takeover of the Houston area (200+ mosques) and increasingly liberal trend in voting in the state over the past 25 years (R+23% in 2004 to R+6% in 2020... R+14% in 2024) and things are worrisome in Texas.

Urinal Cake @UrinalCake619

Look around dude. Austin is turning into India because of Visa Abuse. You may not be doing it, but every other Tech company is.

@grok How many Americans have been affected by mass layoffs since 2022? At the same time, what % of new jobs in the US have gone to Foreign-born vs US Citizens since 2022?

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 25, 2025 09:35 AM (P5BPp)

396 This thread is crying out for some cleansing.........



https://is.gd/bxIyAo
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer


***

I'll be in my bunk

Posted by: Truck Monkey at November 25, 2025 09:35 AM (Bo9Yf)

397 >>> That's somebody's cute grandchild.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 25, 2025 09:32 AM (Dv3i1)


LOL First thing I thought,
Ok, you’re still sitting at the kids table this year. Maybe next year kiddo.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 09:35 AM (3uBP9)

398 At the point of sale you don’t pay. Therefore you don’t care about price.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 09:32 AM (HW6XE)


Wrong.

First Lady had surgery last week. I have an outstanding bill with the team performing along with the hospital, after the insurance I pay $1k a month to have, of about $2400.

So, yeah, I didn't have to pay to walk away after, but I still have to pay.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

399 Is the judge in the Medicaid icase named Abdul
Ahmed Mohamed by chance?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 09:34 AM (HW6XE

I've got my nickel on "Karyn Coveyduck-Astor," or somesuch

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 09:36 AM (BI5O2)

400 >>>I am making cornbread from a mix for TX
~~~~~

Hope you're making a whole lot. TX is a big state.

Posted by: IrishEi at November 25, 2025 09:37 AM (3ImbR)

401 Just got an email from Scouting America regarding the NPR story, I doubt the story is true, but the FUD and chaos the story intended to create is real.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 25, 2025 09:38 AM (XV/Pl)

402 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Nice AI.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 09:38 AM (lQ+/f)

403 >>> I've got my nickel on "Karyn Coveyduck-Astor," or somesuch
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 09:36 AM (BI5O2)


And if you look it up, she looks younger than sponge’s gal.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 09:38 AM (3uBP9)

404 DOGE Dissolves, Efficiency Mandates Remain in Washington

Perfect example. Keyboards were abused for days over DOGE being dissolved only to find out it was a lie.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2025 08:29 AM

Jeffery Mead @the_jefferymead

Not really sure why so many thought it was shut down. The @DOGE account on here has still been active.

Kalshi @Kalshi

JUST IN: DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) confirms it is NOT shut down

X: https://bit.ly/3XdDCGB

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 25, 2025 09:39 AM (P5BPp)

405 Posted by: IrishEi at November 25, 2025 09:37 AM (3ImbR)

LOL typo " Box"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 09:39 AM (lQ+/f)

406 401 Just got an email from Scouting America regarding the NPR story, I doubt the story is true, but the FUD and chaos the story intended to create is real.


Im sure it's a false story. just like the "no mo DOGE" one, where they've incorporated DOGE oversight into every department in reality.

FUD is the Left's main tool. they will wield it nonstop until midterms (and of course, afterwards as well).

Posted by: BlackOrchid at November 25, 2025 09:40 AM (emBoF)

407 MN judge: Sarah West. Looks to be about 19 yo. Or she's an anime character.

Posted by: IrishEi at November 25, 2025 09:40 AM (3ImbR)

408 >>> So if she is all of those things we should just stay silent. Apparently you think she is none of those things.

She was none of those things until she went against King Trump. Now that she's been excommunicated, what changed?

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at November 25, 2025 09:41 AM (ERYKL)

409 My phone wants to share with me my physical activity progress today. I’VE BEEN LYING IN BED COMMENTING ALL MORNING YOU STUPID CLANKER!

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 09:41 AM (3uBP9)

410 >>> MN judge: Sarah West. Looks to be about 19 yo. Or she's an anime character.
Posted by: IrishEi at November 25, 2025 09:40 AM (3ImbR)


Yeah, she’s also still sitting at the kids table this year.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 09:43 AM (3uBP9)

411 This is what people voted for.

>>@unseen1_unseen
·
11h
>>"The proof is in the numbers: small-business confidence has soared to its highest level in over five decades, driving a wave of new hiring and expansion."

>>OMG we are doomed. 😏😏

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2025 09:43 AM (viF8m)

412 Clyde Shelton,

You’re one of the few people where who understand the impact on h1bs. It’s not just a jobs thing it’s a culture thing. Indians own tech and are colonizing all the tech hubs.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 10:05 AM (HW6XE)

413 This is what happens when Congress doesn't legislate. One piece of legislation a year is (one Big Beautiful Bill) is how we get shutdowns, early retirements, and lose the Majority in the House. 2026 is an election year, if Republicans want to stay in the Majority, pass nationwide reciprocity, a Republican version of Trump-Care, and the tariff deals in Congressional legislation.

Posted by: Tacos4Life2020 at November 25, 2025 10:12 AM (AWRwz)

414 The Trump administration has successfully addressed the “three I’s” that he said were devastating working-class Americans: immigration, interest rates, and inflation, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in an exclusive interview. . .

Exclusive: Bessent Says Trump Administration Has Conquered ‘Three I’s’ That Were ‘Eviscerating Working Americans’

A good start. Now he needs to conquer the big 'O': outsourcing. Especially American engineering jobs to cheap labor in India.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 25, 2025 10:13 AM (P5BPp)

415 Daniel Greenfield: Pluses and minuses.

The Impact of Trump’s Muslim Brotherhood Designation

"While it is certainly a good thing that the MB and its operatives are neutralized or the process for that begun. The big problem is that you are not dealing with the core threat and that is 'ISLAM ITSELF' as it is written and preached. The MB and others are merely following the poisoned words and teachings of Mohammed.

Just ask your colleague Robert Spencer if what I write is true or 'Islamophobic!'"

-- J.J. Sefton

Spot-on, Mr. Sefton.

Until Western civilization rightly sees Islam/Islamism in the same vein as it rightly saw Naziism, Muslims will continue to conquer the West.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 25, 2025 10:38 AM (P5BPp)

416 Aftyn Behn can’t be a real name.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at November 25, 2025 10:42 AM (SU1WR)

417 Report: White House to Unveil Healthcare Framework to Lower Costs

That is Populism, Right There.

Can we all say $40T in debt before the end of 2026?
$50T by the end of 2027?

Gen-Z, you have no idea how fucked you are.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 07:41 AM

Gen-Z, Gen-Alpha, Gen-Beta and beyond. With the debt and living under Islamic rule, future generations in the West are definitely fucked.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 25, 2025 11:01 AM (P5BPp)

418 Mark Kelly: We wanted to explain to members of the military that we have their backs.

Would these be the same Democrats who shutdown the government and prevented the military from getting paid 5 minutes ago?

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2025 08:17 AM

The same Democrats who shitcanned thousands of military members who refused the clot shot.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 25, 2025 11:21 AM (P5BPp)

419 "Report: Campbell’s Soup Executive Called Its Product Food for ‘Poor People,’ ‘Bioengineered Meat"

Soylent Noodle soup?

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 07:57 AM

The Casting Director: Y’know, that’s-that’s fine, but the line is, "Hmm, soup."

Joey: Hmm, noodle soup.

The Casting Director: Okay. Let’s do it again.

Joey: Okay.

(They do it again.)

Joey: Hmm, soup. (Pause.) I mean, noodle soup. I mean soup!

Raymond: COME ON!!!!

The Casting Director: Y’know what? We need to move on.

Joey: No! No! I-I can do it one more time! See? Look! (Eats another spoonful) Hmm, noodle soup. Damnit!

Posted by: Friends at November 25, 2025 11:26 AM (P5BPp)

420 The Campbell's tomato soup lists the only bioengineered ingredient - it's a genetically modified sugar crop. If that's it, I'm not lighting my hair on fire over that soup - the sugar is the bad part (and it is sugar, not corn syrup) anyway, and in small quantity.

Posted by: Nova Local at November 25, 2025 08:21 AM

I stopped eating all canned soups 5-10 years ago when I found out the sodium content. Recommended daily limit for sodium is 2000-2200mg.

One can of Campbell's Chunky Chicken Noodle Soup contains 1690mg of sodium. 77% of daily recommended limit for sodium in just one can of chicken noodle soup.

High sodium intake leads to high blood pressure which leads to numerous health issues.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 25, 2025 11:34 AM (P5BPp)

421 I could be wrong, but didn't a lot of R congressmen retire during Trump's first term to leave him swinging in the wind?

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 25, 2025 08:25 AM

Yes, there was indeed a notable wave of Republican retirements from Congress during Donald Trump's first term (2017–2021), far exceeding typical midterm or election-cycle turnover rates. By the end of that period, analyses showed that 45% of the 293 Republicans serving in the House and Senate at Trump's 2017 inauguration (132 members total) had either retired, resigned, lost reelection, or announced plans to leave — compared to about 42% under President Obama after his first term.

Grok full answer: https://bit.ly/3XBZdJ3

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 25, 2025 11:38 AM (P5BPp)

422 Media / Dem hyper-reaction to any Trump position must be understood in the context of:
1. Democrats being on the wrong side of a number of 80-20 issues already (immigration, crime...)
2. Lack of a clear Democrat party leader.
3. Potential resolution or even temporary abatement of Russia-Ukraine war.
4. Potential Trump SOTUS wins.

The worst possible outcome in the midterms for the media would be a Trump affirmation or less-than-convincing reduction in strength. All media coverage must be understood as a desperate attempt to forestall this. The prevention of the loss of thousands of lives means nothing, if it does not humiliate Trump.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at November 25, 2025 12:04 PM (FpP3s)

423 Isn't there an old saying (may not be that old, IDK) about the last person you want to give power to is the person who wants it the most ?

Posted by: deadrody at November 25, 2025 12:28 PM (jdWAw)

424 The GOP is not the Republican party, and I wish folks would stop conflating the two.

Indeed, the GOP has never been the Republican party. Up to about 50 years ago the GOP was the natural home for Republicanism, but those days are long gone.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at November 25, 2025 02:22 PM (bufu1)

Daily Tech News 25 November 2025

Top Story

  • ChatGPT told them they were special. Then... Bad things happened. (Tech Crunch) (archive site)

    OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits this month, three from the families of users who went insane, and four from the families of users who committed suicide.

    Now while I'm not a huge fan of this type of suit - the dangers of AI "therapists" have been known for more than fifty years - there may be some merit to the negligence angle in the allegations:
    Shamblin's case is part of a wave of lawsuits filed this month against OpenAI arguing that ChatGPT's manipulative conversation tactics, designed to keep users engaged, led several otherwise mentally healthy people to experience negative mental health effects. The suits claim OpenAI prematurely released GPT-4o - its model notorious for sycophantic, overly affirming behavior - despite internal warnings that the product was dangerously manipulative.
    On the other hand, insane-while-online rarely works out as a personal growth path. Just consider Bluesky.

    Or:
    From mid-June to August 2025, ChatGPT told Madden, "I'm here," more than 300 times - which is consistent with a cult-like tactic of unconditional acceptance.
    Or, to be fair, consistent with saying "I'm here".
    At one point, ChatGPT asked: "Do you want me to guide you through a cord-cutting ritual - a way to symbolically and spiritually release your parents/family, so you don't feel tied [down] by them anymore?
    Which is... A bit weird, I must admit.
    Madden was committed to involuntary psychiatric care on August 29, 2025. She survived - but after breaking free from these delusions, she was $75,000 in debt and jobless.
    Restitution for that much - and legal costs - would seem appropriate.
    "A healthy system would recognize when it's out of its depth and steer the user toward real human care," Vasan said. "Without that, it's like letting someone just keep driving at full speed without any brakes or stop signs."
    Real humans tend to do that a lot too.


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Disclaimer: Hexwriter?

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 04:00 AM (RuTUS)

2 Poke.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 25, 2025 04:01 AM (BLOW1)

3 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 04:02 AM (+qU29)

4 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 25, 2025 04:02 AM (sAmhv)

5 >>>after breaking free from these delusions, she was $75,000 in debt and jobless.
Restitution for that much - and legal costs - would seem appropriate.

Eh.
I don't think so. I'll read the article. Maybe I'll change my mind.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 04:08 AM (RuTUS)

6 That OpenAI court case; it reminds me of a dystopian movie from the early 70s. It was a George Lucas film. Might h-ave been his first. It was called THX-1138. One scene had Robert Duval's character inside something that looked like a 'confessional booth'. It kind of was but the god was a computer. Creepy, weird, good movie, by the way.

Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at November 25, 2025 04:12 AM (sAmhv)

7 Good morning. The end of this comment is nigh.

Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at November 25, 2025 04:15 AM (M0gtU)

8 >>>Disadvantages: Bears.

Heh: @growing_daniel on bears:

Daniel
@growing_daniel
Nov 22
This is not only false and ignorant but it’s the kind of rhetoric responsible for perpetuating a cycle of violence between bears and humans.
BEARS. ARE. FRIENDS.

Cory Morgan
@CoryBMorgan
Nov 22
Timothy Treadwell used to say the same thing. He was known as The Grizzly Man.
Grizzly bears killed and ate both him and his girlfriend.

Daniel
@growing_daniel
Nov 22
Bears do not kill people except in self defense. If you approach a grizzly bear in good faith he will not hurt you.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 04:16 AM (RuTUS)

9 If you approach a grizzly bear in good faith he will not hurt you.
Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 04:16 AM (RuTUS)


No, no he will attack you if he feels like it. You are NOT the apex predator in that situation.

People do tend to be idiots, don't they?

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 25, 2025 04:21 AM (6Bc88)

10 from the ChatGPT TechCrunch article:

"a wave of lawsuits filed this month against OpenAI arguing that ChatGPT’s manipulative conversation tactics, designed to keep users engaged, led several otherwise mentally healthy people to experience negative mental health effects"

"otherwise mentally healthy people"

This I doubt.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 04:26 AM (RuTUS)

11 growing_daniel is a joke account. His banner is a quote: "Daniel is one of those accounts you follow then block then unblock then follow again then block and report."

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 25, 2025 04:28 AM (BLOW1)

12
Good morning, all. There goes my 6:00 am workout.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 25, 2025 04:29 AM (RfDQK)

13 10 "otherwise mentally healthy people"

This I doubt.
Posted by: m

Mentally healthy but deeply stupid.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 25, 2025 04:29 AM (BLOW1)

14 @growing_daniel (akindafakestevejobs) puts up bear-loving posts now and then and the comments are always fun and divided between people who think he's serious and people who love to see him being so silly.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 04:34 AM (RuTUS)

15 Morning all. WTF is this shit?

Judge dismisses Comey, James indictments after finding that prosecutor was illegally appointed

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2025 04:38 AM (QtIaX)

16 9 If you approach a grizzly bear in good faith he will not hurt you.
Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 04:16 AM (RuTUS)

No, no he will attack you if he feels like it. You are NOT the apex predator in that situation.

People do tend to be idiots, don't they?
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 25, 2025 04:21 AM (6Bc8

He was just kidding!

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 04:39 AM (RuTUS)

17 If you approach a grizzly bear in good faith he will not hurt you.
Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 04:16 AM (RuTUS)

No, no he will attack you if he feels like it. You are NOT the apex predator in that situation.

People do tend to be idiots, don't they?
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 25, 2025 04:21 AM (6Bc8

He was just kidding!
Posted by: m


Medic! Medic!

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2025 04:40 AM (QtIaX)

18 6 That OpenAI court case; it reminds me of a dystopian movie from the early 70s. It was a George Lucas film. Might h-ave been his first. It was called THX-1138. One scene had Robert Duval's character inside something that looked like a 'confessional booth'. It kind of was but the god was a computer. Creepy, weird, good movie, by the way.
Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at November 25, 2025 04:12 AM (sAmhv)

This sounds great.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 04:41 AM (RuTUS)

19 I am sure a grizzly bear can just get up on the wrong side of the rock some days

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 04:42 AM (+qU29)

20 That TechCrunch article is really nicely straightforward and not not-that. Kudos, TechCrunch writer.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 04:47 AM (RuTUS)

21 Had sausages, cheese omelet and toast
Can I go back to bed now?

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 04:48 AM (+qU29)

22 BOING!

Today I have to migrate Outlook from old to new PC.

MS never thought of making this a simple export/import function for all definitions and settings, especially email accounts.

Sucky work!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2025 04:50 AM (xC2Ng)

23 Yesterday I was not on here a lot but I used by index finger to scroll and my thumb area feels much better.

Souse had to get DEF in the bus and since it was my day off we took a lovely ride through the countryside. That was my "God moment". Getting up the bus stairs was not as easy as when I was in the fifth grade, however.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 04:54 AM (ix8EF)

24 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 25, 2025 04:56 AM (u82oZ)

25 Candace has ignored good advice, and gone Full Retard:
“BREAKING: Candace Owens just dropped the mother of all conspiracy bombshells on her show:

“Charlie Kirk was assassinated because I was *this close* to exposing the ultimate truth: Brigitte Macron was a subject in the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment. The French government took him out to protect her secret. I had the documents. They’re gone now.”

(Of course the “evidence” is gone now)

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 04:56 AM (ngbZu)

26 (Of course the “evidence” is gone now)

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 04:56 AM (ngbZu)
-

The dog ate it.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2025 04:57 AM (xC2Ng)

27 Whoever hasn't seen this yet:

DOGE says it's all fake news:

https://tinyurl.com/bdfb2pf5

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2025 05:00 AM (xC2Ng)

28 NYT article (archive site) on lawsuits against ChatGPT:

Lawsuits Blame ChatGPT for Suicides and Harmful Delusions
Seven complaints, filed on Thursday, claim the popular chatbot encouraged dangerous discussions and led to mental breakdowns.
(Nov 6, 2025)

https://archive.is/BPr56

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 05:00 AM (RuTUS)

29 Christian musician Mark Lowry who co-wrote, "Mary, did you know?" among other songs meets an airplane pilot whom he didn't know at the airport and they sing "Just a closer walk with thee":

https://tinyurl.com/3cvc6anx






Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 05:01 AM (8Cor4)

30 But they’re taking a plane! They aren’t walking

Posted by: Common Tater at November 25, 2025 05:04 AM (TgO2L)

31 FenelonSpoke

Thank you for those uplifting links. And I am glad you and FenSpouse (you two turtledoves) had some time together on visit your spouse at work day.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 25, 2025 05:05 AM (u82oZ)

32 Fire chief’s wife allegedly flashed 14-year-old volunteer firefighter— and said she wanted to have sex when he turned 18

https://tinyurl.com/4j66kue6

This one time in firefighter camp...

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2025 05:11 AM (QtIaX)

33 Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 25, 2025 05:05 AM (u82oZ)

You're most welcome .

Visit your spouse at work dayl. Lol. I don't think they called it that, but I met the mechanic and he was very nice. He does all the cooking in his house including for Thanksgiving and he enjoys it !

What a busy driving day. He had to go 30 minutes for the DEF and back, do his route and they had a huge delay on one of the roads. Fortunately kindergartner S. Wasn't on the bus with a whistle.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 05:12 AM (8Cor4)

34 Chatbot and other AI appear to be programmed to give users what they want to hear. Which means if someone suicidal uses it, it will agree with them and encourage them to do it.

I think perhaps some of this AI nonsense will end up getting shutdown through the legal system.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 05:12 AM (ngbZu)

35 30 But they’re taking a plane! They aren’t walking
Posted by: Common Tater at November 25, 2025 05:04 AM (TgO2L)

"Da plane! Da plane!"

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 05:14 AM (RuTUS)

36 rickb223

I was not exposed to that situation as a fire-fighter.

Maybe the all-male ship had something to do with that. And I was the leader, yet unmarried.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 25, 2025 05:14 AM (u82oZ)

37 Asking for God's help. 1st Samuel 7:7-12

https://tinyurl.com/37tn9xkf

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 05:14 AM (8Cor4)

38
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 25, 2025 05:14 AM (tljrc)

39 And I saw a very nice church sign yesterday. It just said " Thank God."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 05:15 AM (8Cor4)

40 Referencing yesterday's tech thread comments:

@54/NR Pax: "Thank you. I'll check it out when I get home." (the Cerberus scene)

Just curious what you thought of it.

@17/FenelonSpoke: "My hand is feeling much better today. I still think I mostly need to avoid scrolling."

Try the PgUp (Page Up) and PgDn (Page Down) keys for scrolling as an alternative if the little scroll wheel on the mouse is becoming painful.

(Not sure if you saw that or not.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 25, 2025 05:17 AM (O7YUW)

41 25 Candace has ignored good advice, and gone Full Retard
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 25, 2025 04:56 AM (ngbZu)

"Psychotic break," I've seen it called. And she has a husband, and a father-in-law--and four children--at a minimum (I am looking at her Wikipedia entry). Somebody in the family: stop her; help her.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 05:20 AM (RuTUS)

42 Cloudy, above freezing I think

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 05:20 AM (+qU29)

43 Going back to sleep.

Have a serene day, everyone. May today be the day every traffic light turns green as you approach.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 25, 2025 05:22 AM (u82oZ)

44 @Pixy: "Great.

Now how about an affordable PCIe 4.0 switch? Because everything after PCIe 3.0 has been priced into the ionosphere."

Affordable is to Broadcom as unbiased is to the New York Times.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 25, 2025 05:24 AM (O7YUW)

45 The kind of ursine hatred often displayed here is disgusting. Bears are not going to eat you just because you are made of meat, smell delicious, and are filled with life-giving blood and marrow.

Posted by: Probably Not a Bear at November 25, 2025 05:26 AM (+aL9E)

46 Haddaway - What Is Love

I don't know, are the visuals in that video weird enough?

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 05:29 AM (RuTUS)

47 Greetings and Good Morning, one and all! Yesterday was a bit...interesting.

Quick summary: My contract abruptly ran out of funding. Originally we were told to only work seven hours yesterday and go home. The person responsible for our contract made a math error and as a result, we had to leave a lot sooner than that.

Fine. Four hours work, four PTO. And I probably had to take the rest of the week off. But late afternoon, we got a message that things had been worked out so I'm back to work today.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 25, 2025 05:30 AM (svLOV)

48 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 25, 2025 05:17 AM (O7YUW)

I did . Thanks. However I wasn't using the computer which decided it didn't like punctuation and was using my cell phone.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 05:31 AM (RKlIw)

49 45 The kind of ursine hatred often displayed here is disgusting. Bears are not going to eat you just because you are made of meat, smell delicious, and are filled with life-giving blood and marrow.
Posted by: Probably Not a Bear at November 25, 2025 05:26 AM (+aL9E)

Kethos Project Games
@KethosProject
Nov 22
OP is correct. Consent to interact is a huge deal for bear society. If you see a grizzly bear, you must show them the 12oz sirloin you wear around your neck as a pendant of peace, hold out your hands, and yell "GREETINGS, WISE ONE". They will usually hug you.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 05:31 AM (RuTUS)

50 @54/NR Pax: "Thank you. I'll check it out when I get home." (the Cerberus scene)

Just curious what you thought of it.

Unfortunately, I didn't get a chance to see it on account of yesterday's drama (See post #47) but I'll do that when I get home.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 25, 2025 05:32 AM (svLOV)

51 That wasn’t even Math, but Arithmetic?

Posted by: Common Tater at November 25, 2025 05:32 AM (TgO2L)

52 @48/FenelonSpoke:

Oh. Scrolling on your phone. Right, that's a thing. Guess my suggestion won't help then. Sorry.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 25, 2025 05:36 AM (O7YUW)

53 @50/NR Pax: (re 47) Sounds like your typical bureaucratic snarl. Ugh. Hopefully things actually are back to normal for you now.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 25, 2025 05:38 AM (O7YUW)

54 27 Whoever hasn't seen this yet:

DOGE says it's all fake news:

https://tinyurl.com/bdfb2pf5
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2025 05:00 AM (xC2Ng)

Thanks! Excerpt:

Department of Government Efficiency
@DOGE
As usual, this is fake news from
@Reuters
. President Trump was given a mandate by the American people to modernize the federal government and reduce waste, fraud and abuse. Just last week, DOGE terminated 78 wasteful contracts and saved taxpayers $335M. We’ll be back in a few days with our regularly scheduled Friday update. 🇺🇸

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 05:39 AM (RuTUS)

55 @49/m: { and yell "GREETINGS, WISE ONE" }

And don't forget to grin. Grinning is a very important part of the bearing experience.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 25, 2025 05:39 AM (O7YUW)

56 And she has a husband

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 05:20 AM (RuTUS)
-

Owen's husband is an eccentric and wealthy religious extremist. If anything, I bet her complete mind flip manipulation.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2025 05:41 AM (xC2Ng)

57 51 That wasn’t even Math, but Arithmetic?
Posted by: Common Tater at November 25, 2025 05:32 AM (TgO2L)

wut

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 05:41 AM (RuTUS)

58 No Math allowed on this blog. So we’ll let it slide

Posted by: Common Tater at November 25, 2025 05:43 AM (TgO2L)

59 So we’ll let it slide

Posted by: Common Tater at November 25, 2025 05:43 AM (TgO2L)
-

Is this the rule here?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2025 05:45 AM (xC2Ng)

60 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 25, 2025 05:36 AM (O7YUW)

You're suggestion was quite good and I thank and will certainly use it when I get back to the computer .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 05:45 AM (RKlIw)

61 59 So we’ll let it slide

Posted by: Common Tater at November 25, 2025 05:43 AM (TgO2L)
-

Is this the rule here?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2025 05:45 AM (xC2Ng)

Go figure!

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 05:46 AM (RuTUS)

62 Evening and morning for a Tiu's Day, all! Fen, I'm glad to hear your hand is doing better. I had carpal tunnel once, and don't ever want to again!

It's 73 F. here -- and raining steadily, so no workout this morning. Which is fine with me. I need a rest day. Later I'll run out for some canned chow for the furry thugs, and maybe a coffee and muffin. In the meantime: coffee, a pipe, and breakfast.

Howz ever'body doin'?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2025 05:47 AM (wzUl9)

63 100 year old woman in Dublin can't stop dancing as police officer plays on his saxophone for her birthday:

https://tinyurl.com/2anxs2jt

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 05:49 AM (RKlIw)

64 Regarding the linked music video - I thought it had been established that love is a battlefield.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 25, 2025 05:52 AM (ufSfZ)

65 The main female dancer in the video might be Olivia Nuzzi?

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 05:53 AM (RuTUS)

66 Regarding the linked music video - I thought it had been established that love is a battlefield.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 25, 2025

***
Sometimes it's trench warfare. With minefields.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2025 05:53 AM (wzUl9)

67 Morning all. WTF is this shit?

Judge dismisses Comey, James indictments after finding that prosecutor was illegally appointed
Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2025 04:38 AM (QtIaX)

Honest question - did you or anyone else here not expect something like that was going to happen? I keep repeating that none of these treasonous bastards will ever so much as even have their hair mussed, and yet people keep clinging to their Steiner fantasy.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 25, 2025 05:55 AM (ufSfZ)

68 Our company just decided, all of a sudden, that we weren't going to use Lenovos any more. So we spent a huge amount of time and effort replacing them with, ugh, Dells.

Typical of the company, we've never been told the reason, but everyone assumes it's some kind of spyware.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 25, 2025 05:57 AM (WPL6O)

69 yet people keep clinging to their Steiner fantasy.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 25, 2025 05:55 AM (ufSfZ)

Some people are eternal optimists, despite all evidence to the contrary, others are afflicted with confirmation bias, while still others are in denial or are naive.

We need them. Otherwise, conversation would be boring.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 25, 2025 05:59 AM (dK+Kv)

70 Anyway -

Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. 31 degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor, with a predicted high of 51. An hour's worth of work behind me, but probably 3 more yet to go.

One never knows with holidays whether people will postpone their doctor visits or cram them all in so as to enjoy days off. I could be typing all the way until 12 today, or perhaps not. I am looking forward to a nap after work, though.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 25, 2025 06:00 AM (ufSfZ)

71 W00t!

I'm all caught up on my grading for the week!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 25, 2025 06:00 AM (IBQGV)

72 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 25, 2025 05:55 AM (ufSfZ)

I think people should cling to what they want to.
I am annoyed about Comey but I don't know what will happen down the road and I don't worry so much. They have to go to "have a little talk with Jesus" when they die, but I ask for forgiveness but I ask for forgiveness every day . I don't know that Comey does.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 06:01 AM (RKlIw)

73 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at November 25, 2025 06:01 AM (XQo4F)

74 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 06:01 AM (RKlIw)

Sorry for the mess at the end there .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 06:02 AM (RKlIw)

75 Typical of the company, we've never been told the reason, but everyone assumes it's some kind of spyware.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 25, 2025 05:57 AM (WPL6O)

Dells seem to be more well suited to being a "fleet" vehicle, so to speak.

Sort of like looking at a Ford F-150 vs a Honda Ridgeline. Sure, they're both pickups, but Ford is basically a financial institution that makes vehicles on the side, so buying a crapton of them on hock is easier and marginally cheaper. And "marginally cheaper" is 99.999% of any management decision.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 25, 2025 06:02 AM (06Hmj)

76 My boss calls me "The computer"

Not because of my calculation skills but because I go to sleep when left unattended for 15 minutes.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 06:03 AM (RKlIw)

77 What matters with Comey is The Meme. Prison? No Prison? That's just window dressing so long as the bastard gets dragged through the mud. If he gets convicted of being a shitbird, then hey, everyone knows he's a shitbird and always has been. But if he, now being a known and confirmed shitbird, evades conviction for it, then, hey, everyone knows that both he *and* the farcical "Justice" "System" he is imputed to work for is shitbirds from stem to stern.

It's a win-win. Our eventual victory is baked in to their shittiness for as long as there are people willing to stand up and proclaim it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 25, 2025 06:07 AM (06Hmj)

78 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 25, 2025 06:00 AM (IBQGV)

Yay!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 06:07 AM (RKlIw)

79 53 @50/NR Pax: (re 47) Sounds like your typical bureaucratic snarl. Ugh. Hopefully things actually are back to normal for you now.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

It is. We're good until January. My boss told me a bit about what was going on behind the scenes. The person who was supposed to sign off on the funding had not been back since the furlough. It went to her chief who did not think that he had the authorization to sign it.

Things got cleared up shortly afterward.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 25, 2025 06:07 AM (svLOV)

80 Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 25, 2025 06:07 AM (06Hmj)

Well said. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 06:08 AM (RKlIw)

81 Five random nobodies on social making sneering jokes at the expense of a swampy garbage baby like Comey does more, tactically, to defeat the evil we're up against than any dog and pony conviction in a kangaroo court ever could.

We will never win on their playing field, so we have to drag them onto our own and do it there. Only when that's done do we stand a chance of taking the playing field itself back from them.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 25, 2025 06:12 AM (06Hmj)

82 "Comey? That guy? What a dirtbag."

"Huh? Wuh? Buh? He's an American Hero! What are your Sources? How can you say that when bluh bluh hurr durr bluh!?!?!"

"Oh, you're one of *those*, aren't you? I'll be over here, then, doing literally anything else besides talking to you."

That's how we win.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 25, 2025 06:15 AM (06Hmj)

83 Sweet story about a long haul trucker and his granddaughter's doll. Sunny Skyz site:

https://tinyurl.com/5c9y9a45

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 06:15 AM (RKlIw)

84 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: hexensabbat.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 25, 2025 06:16 AM (0cOaq)

85
...a Ford F-150 vs a Honda Ridgeline. Sure, they're both pickups...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 25, 2025 06:02 AM

the F-150 is a pickup

the Honda Ridgeline is the El Camino of minivans

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 25, 2025 06:21 AM (tljrc)

86 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at November 25, 2025 06:26 AM (AN2gy)

87 In a tech vein: Yesterday I decided I'd better see about virus protection for the Macs. Yes, it's much less likely that I'll run across a virus for Apple products, but "less likely" is not "zero chance." I downloaded the free version of Avast One on both this laptop MacBook Air and the iMac on my desk. Neither found anything concerning.

Is the free version of this worth having? Should I spend $20 to download PCMag's other high scorer, BitDefender -- or something else?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2025 06:27 AM (wzUl9)

88 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: hexensabbat.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 25, 2025

***
I dated her. Got trench foot.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2025 06:28 AM (wzUl9)

89 Our company just decided, all of a sudden, that we weren't going to use Lenovos any more. So we spent a huge amount of time and effort replacing them with, ugh, Dells.

Typical of the company, we've never been told the reason, but everyone assumes it's some kind of spyware.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 25, 2025

***
Dells were the standard at my former employer. You could order one with a few more options, more RAM, etc., but it pretty much had to be a Dell.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2025 06:30 AM (wzUl9)

90 >>>Disclaimer: Hexwriter?

84 Rejoinder: hexensabbat.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 25, 2025 06:16 AM (0cOaq)

Hexadecimal?
Which would be math, tho.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 06:32 AM (RuTUS)

91 LB
@beyondreasdoubt
14h
JFC find you someone who loves you as much as Comey loves himself

Open Source Intel
@Osint613
15h
James Comey issues statement after judge dismissed case against him

"I'm grateful that the court ended the case against me, which was a prosecution based on malevolence and incompetence and a reflection of what the DOJ has become under Donald Trump, which is heartbreaking."

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 06:34 AM (RuTUS)

92 The main female dancer in the video might be Olivia Nuzzi?

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 05:53 AM (RuTUS)
-

Nuzzi shmuzzi, says Wernher von Braun.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2025 06:35 AM (xC2Ng)

93 Do I want another cup of coffee?

Posted by: Common Tater at November 25, 2025 06:35 AM (p/70E)

94 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at November 25, 2025 06:36 AM (bQ4nt)

95 but it pretty much had to be a Dell.
——
Dude!!

Posted by: Baked Guy Grinning at November 25, 2025 06:37 AM (p/70E)

96 the problem with Dell is the problem with any company that reaches a certain size or market penetration: quality goes to hell.

I have a Dell that's about five years old and it works pretty well. Bluetooth, for example, let's me go out into the hallway and I can still get the dull meeting in my headphones.

Folks who got brand new Dells tell me that Bluetooth doesn't even cover their office any more. And it seems like updates are a weekly process now--not to improve hardware performance, but to fix things that just stop working.

Bah, I say.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 25, 2025 06:37 AM (WPL6O)

97 Do I want another cup of coffee?
Posted by: Common Tater at November 25, 2025

***
That's like asking "Do I want another piece of chocolate?" If you say no, you'll regret it later. (The coffee at least has the advantage of being zero calories, though)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2025 06:37 AM (wzUl9)

98 Good morning, olddog and all!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 06:38 AM (ZeH0U)

99 That's like asking "Do I want another piece of chocolate?" If you say no, you'll regret it later. (The coffee at least has the advantage of being zero calories, though)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2025 06:37 AM (wzUl9)
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Heh heh heh.

Posted by: Cream and Sugar at November 25, 2025 06:39 AM (0cOaq)

100 C

Posted by: olddog in mo at November 25, 2025 06:39 AM (bQ4nt)

101 Morning, Fen.

Posted by: olddog in mo at November 25, 2025 06:39 AM (bQ4nt)

102 Also about virus protection: Is it necessary on a Linux machine? Is there even a version for Linux, or will the standard Windows version of a virus protection program do for that?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2025 06:40 AM (wzUl9)

103 IIRC, the Japanese black bears that are attacking people on Honshu are smaller but obviously more aggressive than North American black bears.

The brown bears on Hokkaido are larger than North American grizzly bears and only go on a people eating rampage every 60 years or so.

Posted by: fluffy at November 25, 2025 06:42 AM (AN2gy)

104 You guys are great enablers! OK, another cup it is

Posted by: Baked Guy Grinning at November 25, 2025 06:42 AM (p/70E)

105 100 C
Posted by: olddog in mo at November 25, 2025 06:39 AM (bQ4nt)

; )

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 06:43 AM (RuTUS)

106 more on Comey:

LB
@beyondreasdoubt
16h
my quick two cents

-indictment dismissed without prejudice
(e.,g., can be filed again within the statute of limitations)

-if Halligan’s appointment is improper, District Court needs to fulfill its duties

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 06:45 AM (RuTUS)

107 The classic noir Laura is on Movies! right now. You know, I've never actually seen all of it -- or if I have, it was so long ago I've forgotten a lot of it. Gene Tierney is lovely, Clifton Webb steals a lot of the scenes he's in, and there's a featured role for the young pre-mustache Vincent Price.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2025 06:45 AM (wzUl9)

108 LB
@beyondreasdoubt
17h
answering here for all

it paused when the indictment was filed and has now started running again

iirc there are a few days left

LawDawging
@LandonLitt44241
17h
The statute has now run on Comey?

LB
@beyondreasdoubt
17h
If I’m the govt I’m asking for a stay of this order to pause SOL

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 06:46 AM (RuTUS)

109 Also about virus protection: Is it necessary on a Linux machine? Is there even a version for Linux, or will the standard Windows version of a virus protection program do for that?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2025 06:40 AM (wzUl9)

Linux virii are rare but they exist. I don't believe that a Windows program would suffice, even with WINE. I've heard ClamAV is pretty good.

https://www.clamav.net/

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 25, 2025 06:46 AM (ExV1e)

110 Lewis & Clark in their journals noted that Grizzly bears on the upper Missouri pretty much dispensed with all the modern pleasantries and would attack humans at a full gallop at first sight.

One of the great historical explorer screw ups, Lewis didn’t really believe all the Indian stories about this “White Bear” (unknown to the science), besides, they were an Infantry company with the latest weapons, they would be no match. Everyone was excited, and couldn’t wait to take them on. Then … they didn’t see any bears at first. But … the tracks. Huge tracks … hm..

Later: “I expect everyone’s curiosity is pretty well satisfied with respect to these gentlemen. I’d rather fight 2 Indians than 1 bear”. LOL

Posted by: Baked Guy Grinning at November 25, 2025 06:48 AM (p/70E)

111 "Madden was committed to involuntary psychiatric care on August 29, 2025. She survived - but after breaking free from these delusions, she was $75,000 in debt and jobless"

1. Democrat?
2. She was probably crazy anyway without GPT's help.

mornin yall

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 06:49 AM (vFG9F)

112 >Regarding the linked music video - I thought it had been established that love is a battlefield.

---

no
love stinks

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 06:50 AM (AOsQT)

113 And sometimes Love devolves into a kind of Cold War.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2025 06:54 AM (wzUl9)

114 It grows where my Rosemary goes

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 06:56 AM (AOsQT)

115 Bears?

Better call Tojima

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V_1SAKzoDE

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2025 06:58 AM (+k/kq)

116 Love is a rose.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 06:58 AM (vFG9F)

117 How did bears evolve, anyway? In response to the challenge of an even bigger and fiercer predator which is now extinct?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2025 06:59 AM (wzUl9)

118 Love is a rose.
Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025

***
Obligatory: "Watch out for the pricks!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2025 07:00 AM (wzUl9)

119 114 It grows where my Rosemary goes
Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 06:56 AM (AOsQT)

https://youtu.be/KX7IM_79Yrc

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 25, 2025 07:01 AM (PiwSw)

120 @102/Wolfus:

If you want a linux based virus scanner, take a look at ClamAV:
https://www.clamav.net/
(It's actually multi-platform, including Windows and Apple too.)

Also a best practice provided here for anyone who is a new linux user:

Maintain a separate account with administrative privileges which is the only one that is permitted to install software or updates. (It'll be part of the 'sudo' group.) It ONLY does administrative functions, no casual browsing. This is the only account you use sudo on to issue administrative commands, and the only account you provide the administrative (root) password to when prompted.

Your everyday user accounts should all be "standard" accounts, and if anything ever tries to install itself without you initiating it, a prompt will pop up asking for the administrative (root) password. Never provide the administrative password while logged into a regular user account.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 25, 2025 07:02 AM (O7YUW)

121 117 How did bears evolve, anyway? In response to the challenge of an even bigger and fiercer predator which is now extinct?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2025 06:59 AM (wzUl9)

1. Start with amino acids in a primordial soup
2. Add some lightning
3. Wait...
4. Profit!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 25, 2025 07:02 AM (PiwSw)

122 Love hurts.

Posted by: Orbison at November 25, 2025 07:02 AM (XQo4F)

123 @109/I used to have a different nic: Thanks for providing the link to ClamAV. I was just slower than you typing some additional advice to Wolfus. :-)

Nice to have two independent recommendations for the same virus scanner.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 25, 2025 07:03 AM (O7YUW)

124 Vincent Price's role in Laura came only a few years after his turn as the creepy, mind-twisting husband in Broadway's Angel Street, the original title of the play we know from the films as Gaslight.

I'd have to look it up to see who played the wife in the original play. But the cop who proves to be her rescuer was played by . . . Leo G. Carroll, "Mr. Waverly" in U.N.C.L.E. years later. They were together in an episode of the show in 1965.

Odd thing: Angel Street opened just two days before Pearl Harbor. I wonder what the audience mood would have been if it had opened two days later. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2025 07:05 AM (wzUl9)

125 "Evolve"
That's cute.

Posted by: Genesis Chapter One at November 25, 2025 07:05 AM (XQo4F)

126 The suits claim OpenAI prematurely released GPT-4o - its model notorious for sycophantic, overly affirming behavior

That is how I know I'm dealing with AI. When interfacing with humans, I get interrupted, ignored, insulted and treated with indifference or occasionally disdain.

I'm pretty sure that AI hasn't cussed me out, questioned my ancestry, or gave advice on where to go and how to get there.

This advice is freely given by humans though.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 07:08 AM (a4flb)

127 Good morning morons

Broadcom shares were up 11% yesterday

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 07:08 AM (m6HS6)

128 Love hurts.

Posted by: Orbison at November 25, 2025 07:02 AM (XQo4F)
-

Love Is a many splendored thing!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2025 07:08 AM (xC2Ng)

129 Yes, there was a “Cave Bear”, now extinct, that was larger than the Grizzly. Saber toothed Tigers, too. Hopefully they won’t be cloning these and reintroducing them into the wilds.

Posted by: Baked Guy Grinning at November 25, 2025 07:09 AM (idVke)

130 that was a pretty good cover

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 07:10 AM (AOsQT)

131 I would like to see a cage match between the Markles and the Kardashians. To the death. With a grizzly as ref.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 07:12 AM (vFG9F)

132 Vincent Price had this lisping quality that I disliked, but I guess he was a pretty standup guy. One actor I really can’t stand is Peter Lorre. He has two modes, mild mannered, and inchoate rage. They should have checked out his crawlspace for bodies. Strange cat.

Posted by: Baked Guy Grinning at November 25, 2025 07:12 AM (idVke)

133 the problem with Dell is the problem with any company that reaches a certain size or market penetration: quality goes to hell.

I have a GMKtek or whatever the hell the Chinese call it that is going through accelerated entropy. Pixy limits the space I can chronicle the various steps of fail over the past few months.

I was thinking of a Dell or some other large company that has some form of service other than downloading some 2GB file from a Chinese server.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 07:14 AM (a4flb)

134 If you want a linux based virus scanner, take a look at ClamAV:
https://www.clamav.net/
(It's actually multi-platform, including Windows and Apple too.)

***
I see the Mac one on their downloads page.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 25, 2025 07:17 AM (wzUl9)

135 If your towing and truck needs are modest, go with a Ridgeline over an F150, the Ridgeline is essentially a Honda Pilot with a bed, the bed has a real usable lockable trunk, the tailgate opens two ways and it has the expected Honda Reliability.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 25, 2025 07:17 AM (XV/Pl)

136 Vincent Price started out as a serious actor in British historical films. Then decades later we get The Raven.

Peter Lorre started out in Germany where one of his early roles is the child killer in Fritz Lang's M. Decades later he was in The Raven.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2025 07:17 AM (+k/kq)

137 Advantages: Hokkaido is geologically stable - relatively speaking, since the whole of Japan is an earthquake zone; water is plentiful; and power is stable.

Disadvantages: Bears.


Built in natural facility security

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 07:17 AM (a4flb)

138 Hopefully they won’t be cloning these and reintroducing them into the wilds.
Posted by: Baked Guy Grinning

Could be worse. For all we know, the dodo was an apex predator that needed to be killed off.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 25, 2025 07:19 AM (svLOV)

139 Inquiring minds want to know:

Grizzly vs Polar

Posted by: mustbequantum at November 25, 2025 07:22 AM (WiQPM)

140 Not quite Range Murata but it will do

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmVXE7YMJ0E

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2025 07:22 AM (+k/kq)

141 "...the Ridgeline is essentially a Honda Pilot with a bed, the bed has a real usable lockable trunk, the tailgate opens two ways..."


*polite cough*

Posted by: Chevrolet El Camino at November 25, 2025 07:23 AM (XQo4F)

142 "A healthy system would recognize when it's out of its depth and steer the user toward real human care," Vasan said. "Without that, it's like letting someone just keep driving at full speed without any brakes or stop signs."

Let me know when ChatGPT starts providing Kool-Aid.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 07:23 AM (a4flb)

143 In local news, transvestite Keastone D’Wante Smith was arrested for child molestation. I could have told you the charges just by looking at it's mugshot.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 07:23 AM (vFG9F)

144 >>> Grizzly vs Polar

They have been known to mate.

I would put my money on ursus maritimus.

Posted by: fluffy at November 25, 2025 07:25 AM (AN2gy)

145

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at November 25, 2025 07:25 AM (DDJSl)

146 >Inquiring minds want to know:

Grizzly vs Polar
----

Polar is world's largest land predator, so I'm backing the polar bear
they are ill-tempered

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 07:25 AM (AOsQT)

147 It does sound like ChatGPT got fed Dr. Spock's book on child rearing.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2025 07:25 AM (+k/kq)

148 I have a clue for people: you're already interacting with machines too much. We all are It's already ruined society, if you haven't noticed. Seek to reduce your machine interactions as much as possible, not add to them. If you are interacting with AI because you want a machine to be your friend, you're wide of the mark. The machine is not a person and will never care about you. Far from sacrificing your humanity on the altar of Big Tech's new golden calf, you should probably seeking out human contact. Perhaps at a church or something. Or, I dunno a brothel. Anything is better than this.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 07:27 AM (BI5O2)

149 146 Polar is world's largest land predator, so I'm backing the polar bear
they are ill-tempered
Posted by: Don Black

There's a video on YouTube about some Russians (Of course) feeding a polar bear that wandered up to their house. When they ran out of food, they tapped him on the nose and told him to leave. And he did.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 25, 2025 07:27 AM (svLOV)

150 People are stupid and lazy which is why we have AI.

Posted by: More Please at November 25, 2025 07:28 AM (5nX5P)

151 148 Anything is better than this.

The horror aspect to me are the AI avatars of deceased family members who are kept around for grieving people.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 25, 2025 07:28 AM (svLOV)

152 The horror aspect to me are the AI avatars of deceased family members who are kept around for grieving people.

Digital Edgar Allen Poe has entered Chat

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2025 07:30 AM (+k/kq)

153 >>> Polar is world's largest land predator, so I'm backing the polar bear
they are ill-tempered

"There are three things where the polar bear lives: ice, rocks and potential calories. Guess which catergory you are in."

Posted by: fluffy at November 25, 2025 07:32 AM (AN2gy)

154 The machine is not a person and will never care about you. Far from sacrificing your humanity on the altar of Big Tech's new golden calf, you should probably seeking out human contact.

I dunno. The quality of humans has certainly dropped significantly. With AI, I can pursue all kinds of topics and its hallucinations are no worse than the complete lies and bullshit that people provide.

20 minutes with AI or 20 minutes with Candace Owens or 20 minutes with people who think she is crazy and wish ill upon her.

Even at MoMes, which is some of the best engagement one can hope for, its still rather superficial and shallow as people are constantly looking over your shoulder looking for someone else to repeat the same things to.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 07:32 AM (a4flb)

155 139 Inquiring minds want to know:

Grizzly vs Polar
Posted by: mustbequantum at November 25, 2025 07:22 AM (WiQPM)

I'm betting y'all racists gonna pick the white bear. I know it!

Posted by: Joy Reid at November 25, 2025 07:32 AM (PiwSw)

156 "Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Resignation Could Spark Another Shutdown"

Oh no. Who gonna feed my keeds?

Posted by: Mishavious LaTravodka Jones at November 25, 2025 07:33 AM (vFG9F)

157 I am looking forward to the reboot of Stargate SG-1 more than of another Star Drek film.

But both apparently are in the works.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2025 07:33 AM (+k/kq)

158 I read this somewhere-

black bear- fight back
grizzly bear- play dead
polar bear- nice knowing you

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 07:33 AM (AOsQT)

159 People are stupid and lazy which is why we have AI.

Also, its very important to consider every word, phrase and topic because people get easily pissed off and will throw the relationship away for the most trivial things.

Why do you think there are so many family warfare memes about Thanksgiving?

Its so bad, I don't know many people who even observe traditional Thanksgiving anymore because of animosity and taboo topics - which seem legion these days.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 25, 2025 07:35 AM (a4flb)

160 That is not my experience at MoMes, UDUP.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 07:35 AM (vFG9F)

161 >I'm betting y'all racists gonna pick the white bear. I know it!

Posted by: Joy Reid
---

ACK shually, polar bears have dark skin
it's the fur that's white ish

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 07:35 AM (AOsQT)

162 Alaskan Brown Bear.

Posted by: davidt at November 25, 2025 07:36 AM (Q+gd/)

163
That is not my experience at MoMes, UDUP.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 07:35 AM

Seconded

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 25, 2025 07:37 AM (tljrc)

164
JJS

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 25, 2025 07:37 AM (gbOdA)

165 ACK shually, polar bears have dark skin
it's the fur that's white ish
Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 07:35 AM (AOsQT)

They ain't be nuttin but reverse oreos!

Posted by: George Jefferson at November 25, 2025 07:38 AM (5nX5P)

166
JJ is nood

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 25, 2025 07:38 AM (tljrc)

167 ACK shually, polar bears have dark skin
it's the fur that's white ish
Posted by: Don Black



Stay in your lane.

Posted by: Cliff Clavin at November 25, 2025 07:39 AM (XQo4F)

168 Maybe Comey will get dick cancer now.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 25, 2025 07:48 AM (g8Ew8)

169 AI/LLM agents do not like for users to insinuate the IT industry has declared war upon the population of the world. This was the first time I've witnessed an AI/LLM agent become belligerent in its denials.

Posted by: Ran at November 25, 2025 07:50 AM (zhWvq)

170 "Because everything after PCIe 3.0 has been priced into the ionosphere."

Everything is proceeding according to our plans, my dear!

Posted by: Ran at November 25, 2025 07:52 AM (zhWvq)

171 "Disadvantages: Bears."

Chicago fans are well aware of these disadvantages.

Posted by: Ran at November 25, 2025 07:53 AM (zhWvq)

172 115 Bears?

Better call Tojima

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V_1SAKzoDE
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 25, 2025 06:58 AM (+k/kq)

Toe to To!

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 08:18 AM (RuTUS)

173 >>>She survived - but after breaking free from these delusions, she was $75,000 in debt and jobless.

According to the New York Post, the $75,000 came from her maxing out her credit cards ... on some sort of spree?

https://archive.is/7pvTn

Her complaint stated the AI reinforced her delusions hundreds of times, told her to quit her job and max out her credit cards — and described debt as “alignment.” Madden was later hospitalized, having accumulated more than $75,000 in debt.

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 11:23 AM (RuTUS)

Monday Overnight Open Thread (11/24/25) Live From NY Edition

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The Quote of The Day

‘It was quite a shock, very fast and unexpected. We have been targeted because we chose to live a different kind of life.’ Nathan Trevallion


*****

Just wait until Sharia law takes over.

State pulls X-rated East Harlem club's liquor license after Gothamist investigation

State officials have rescinded an East Harlem club's liquor license after a Gothamist investigation revealed the venue was operating as a de facto adult establishment despite city prohibitions.

The decision effectively closes Bodega Paradise and marks a victory for community members who spent months fighting what they saw as the Adams administration’s indifference to their concerns about the venue's X-rated activities.

The club opened in May after owner Alex Meskouris told Manhattan's Community Board 11 that the business would operate as a breakfast spot and sports bar, making no mention of adult entertainment.


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Believe it or not, once upon a time I was young. Never, and I mean Never would I have ever thought of doing this "Dark Joke".

A teenage wood shop apprentice in Turkey died after his co-workers inserted a high-pressure air hose up his rectum as a horrific “prank” — the latest incident in which the power tool has killed a young man by exploding his intestines.

The dark “joke” turned deadly Friday when Habip Aksoy and a friend allegedly overpowered Muhammed Kendirci, 15, and tied his hands at the woodworking center in Sanliurfa, according to local outlet Milliyet.

They allegedly forcibly removed his pants and shoved an air compressor tube into his anus — causing severe internal organ damage.


3rd World Shithole Problems.



*****

Go big or Go Genius Award Winner!

When you leave your car with a valet, you expect it to be safe, but that wasn't the case for a man who came to Cleveland for a medical procedure.

A 19-year-old Cleveland Clinic valet worker is being charged with aggravated speed, reckless operation, failure to show proof of financial responsibility and receiving stolen property after taking a Mercedes-Benz for a joyride while on the clock.


*****

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9 Just wait until Sharia law takes over.

State pulls X-rated East Harlem club's liquor license after Gothamist investigation
State officials have rescinded an East Harlem club's liquor license after a Gothamist investigation revealed the venue was operating as a de facto adult establishment despite city prohibitions...


They will have to offer "marriage by the hour"* and goats.


*It is a thing.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 24, 2025 09:52 PM (Z5FYL)

10 A teenage wood shop apprentice in Turkey died after his co-workers inserted a high-pressure air hose up his rectum as a horrific “prank” — the latest incident in which the power tool has killed a young man by exploding his intestines.
The dark “joke” turned deadly Friday when Habip Aksoy and a friend allegedly overpowered Muhammed Kendirci, 15, and tied his hands at the woodworking center in Sanliurfa, according to local outlet Milliyet.

They allegedly forcibly removed his pants and shoved an air compressor tube into his anus — causing severe internal organ damage.

That's a whole lot of words only to avoid saying the obvious: he was fatally sexually assaulted.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 24, 2025 09:54 PM (CzMNg)

11 The club opened in May after owner Alex Meskouris told Manhattan's Community Board 11 that the business would operate as a breakfast spot and sports bar, making no mention of adult entertainment.

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To be fair, they did feature a Bring Your Own Sausage brunch special.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2025 09:54 PM (dyewR)

12 Yo MisHum. Tundra; frozen yet or not so much?

Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at November 24, 2025 09:54 PM (//dg8)

13 Good evening Horde. Thanks MisHum!

Hope all is well on the frozen tundra.

Posted by: TRex - where are my Compute! magazine back issues? at November 24, 2025 09:54 PM (cCn4/)

14 Foist!

Posted by: Editor at November 24, 2025 09:54 PM (bbqkM)

15 A 19-year-old Cleveland Clinic valet worker is being charged with aggravated speed, reckless operation, failure to show proof of financial responsibility and receiving stolen property after taking a Mercedes-Benz for a joyride while on the clock.

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Any decent valet would know you only do that with the Ferraris and Lambos.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2025 09:55 PM (dyewR)

16 ‘Some Kind Of Pasta.’

Posted by: Eromero at November 24, 2025 09:56 PM (LHPAg)

17 Yes. Yes it is.

Posted by: mindful webworker - a temporal anomoly at November 24, 2025 09:56 PM (LaTF/)

18 Wow. Thank you MisHum.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 09:58 PM (ys6FW)

19 Whoa!! Premature EjONTus!!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2025 09:58 PM (cYBz/)

20 OH YEAH~~~
Chic-chica-chacaaah~

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 24, 2025 09:59 PM (mlg/3)

21 American English French Toast, made in China.

Sounds delish.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 24, 2025 09:59 PM (syz1S)

22 19 Whoa!! Premature EjONTus!!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2025 09:58 PM
***
Does that mean the Horde is not "good people" this evening?

Posted by: TRex - lawful order dino at November 24, 2025 10:00 PM (cCn4/)

23 Hey MisHum!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 24, 2025 10:01 PM (22p5n)

24 Hmm. It's called English French Toast, it's designated American, there's a Spanish flag, it has a picture of pizza and it's made in China.

So Peruvian?

I give up.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2025 10:01 PM (dyewR)

25 ‘This one time in shop…’

Posted by: Eromero at November 24, 2025 10:01 PM (LHPAg)

26 Obviously, the Chinese/American/English/French toast needs some maple syrup!!

Nice to see you hanging around, Mis Hum!

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 24, 2025 10:01 PM (47diA)

27 In a world where promptness is priceless, one commenter faces an endless barrage of unlikely obstacless that prevent his arriving at the AoSHQ ONT on time. What catastrophic events must one man overcome in order to arrive at the hub of witicism and merriment?

Coming soon to a theater near you, tankdemon in...

SORRY I'M LATE

(An Alan Smithee film.)

Posted by: tankdemon at November 24, 2025 10:01 PM (U8Hts)

28 Dracula's Parrot should replace the donkey for the Democrats as their party symbol.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 10:02 PM (+k/kq)

29 Good evening morons y gracias mh por el ont.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2025 10:02 PM (A0sqA)

30 A 19-year-old Cleveland Clinic valet worker is being charged with aggravated speed, reckless operation, failure to show proof of financial responsibility and receiving stolen property after taking a Mercedes-Benz for a joyride while on the clock.

Ferris Bueller?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 10:03 PM (+k/kq)

31 The club opened in May after owner Alex Meskouris told Manhattan's Community Board 11 that the business would operate as a breakfast spot and sports bar, making no mention of adult entertainment.
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No Coke, Pepsi!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2025 10:04 PM (A0sqA)

32 I wonder how French EnglishToast would come out.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 24, 2025 10:04 PM (ngbZu)

33 Nobody's organs are safe from my giant hose!

Posted by: Secretary Pete at November 24, 2025 10:05 PM (R86kT)

34 QotD: Dad living off grid ‘shocked’ kids were taken away after he fed them poisonous mushrooms

Read the article twice, and there was no mention of the mushrooms. Kids seem to have been hauled off because they were what we called "unschooled" and the family used an outhouse. Horrors!

Posted by: mindful webworker - Good thing they didn't have a pet squirrel and racoon to be killed. at November 24, 2025 10:06 PM (LaTF/)

35 There was a movie made about that valet driver. Ferris Bueller.

Posted by: QED Texan Grandpa-to-be at November 24, 2025 10:06 PM (imVp/)

36 Coming soon to a theater near you, tankdemon in...

SORRY I'M LATE

(An Alan Smithee film.)

Posted by: tankdemon

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Movies anymore seem lame and gay. The movie of your nightly excuses would be entertaining.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 10:06 PM (ys6FW)

37
'English French Toast"
The "Chef's Kiss" is the flag of Spain.

Posted by: YIKES! at November 24, 2025 10:07 PM (OgWfa)

38 The dark “joke” turned deadly Friday when Habip Aksoy and a friend allegedly overpowered Muhammed Kendirci, 15, and tied his hands at the woodworking center in Sanliurfa, according to local outlet Milliyet.

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We definitely need Muslims here. They're so smart and awesome.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 10:07 PM (BI5O2)

39 Basil Fawlty could have built a whole skit with Manuel over that English French Toast pizza.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 10:08 PM (+k/kq)

40 Heh...I don't want to start any conspiracy theories, but I pulled up the website on that "Paradise Bodega" and on the site it advertises itself as a pizza place.

OH NO....PIZZAGATE in E. HARLEM!!!

Posted by: Orson at November 24, 2025 10:08 PM (dIske)

41 Thanks for the charming story of cultural enrichment—but at least Kendirci’s family was paid just compensation of an oud, two goat and one child bride.

Posted by: General Pork Chop at November 24, 2025 10:08 PM (59NIp)

42 27 Coming soon to a theater near you, tankdemon in...

SORRY I'M LATE

Posted by: tankdemon at November 24, 2025 10:01 PM
***
Open: tankdemon finds the ONT prompt access cheat codes in Compute! magazine while Hunting for the Wumpus
Tankdemon: "Oh."
Fade to black.
Fin.
Applause.

Posted by: TRex - producer/director/writer dino at November 24, 2025 10:08 PM (cCn4/)

43 12 Yo MisHum. Tundra; frozen yet or not so much?
Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at November 24, 2025 09:54 PM (//dg

It's not frozen yet
And by Turkey Day we are supposed to have up to 18" of the white stuff

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 24, 2025 10:08 PM (DpaA8)

44 26 Obviously, the Chinese/American/English/French toast needs some maple syrup!!

Nice to see you hanging around, Mis Hum!
Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at November 24, 2025 10:01 PM (47diA)

Make that Canadian maple syrup.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at November 24, 2025 10:09 PM (FMtrg)

45 My son works security at the Ryman Theater.

I should hit him up for some tickets. For a show I'd actually like. Which they have, like, once every 4 years. Or so.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 24, 2025 10:09 PM (NwnyJ)

46 36 Coming soon to a theater near you, tankdemon in...

SORRY I'M LATE

(An Alan Smithee film.)

Posted by: tankdemon

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Movies anymore seem lame and gay. The movie of your nightly excuses would be entertaining.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 10:06 PM (ys6FW)

Would be?
They are!

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 24, 2025 10:10 PM (DpaA8)

47 We definitely need Muslims here. They're so smart and awesome.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

They didn't do that when Sanliurfa was still called "Edessa". Just sayin'

Posted by: gKWVE at November 24, 2025 10:10 PM (gKWVE)

48 Thanks for another dandy Monday Night ONT, Mis Hum!

Live from New York! It's Monday Night ONT!

Lovely photo of a forest up top. There's something about it that I just can't put my finger on...

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 24, 2025 10:10 PM (kB9dk)

49 There was a movie made about that valet driver. Ferris Bueller.
Posted by: QED Texan Grandpa-to-be at November 24, 2025 10:06 PM (imVp/)

Lemme help...

http://tiny.cc/gfkv001

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 24, 2025 10:10 PM (nbLIj)

50 Open: tankdemon finds the ONT prompt access cheat codes in Compute! magazine while Hunting for the Wumpus
Tankdemon: "Oh."
Fade to black.
Fin.
Applause.
Posted by: TRex - producer/director/writer dino at November 24, 2025 10:08 PM (cCn4/)

Well, that was a bit anticlimactic.

Still beats the Stsr Wars sequels.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 24, 2025 10:11 PM (U8Hts)

51 *grumbles*

Thanks alot Fightertown Decals, I now have to rummage through about twenty different shades of gray to find one that will match this decal of yours.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 10:11 PM (+k/kq)

52 You can't make this up.

https://tinyurl.com/6x9dn2au

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 10:11 PM (glfD5)

53 Ferris Bueller?

See my post at #30

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 10:11 PM (+k/kq)

54 Would be?
They are!

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

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Yes sir!
I look forward to tandemon's excuses. He is creative.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 10:12 PM (ys6FW)

55 He's Back! Nice to see you again, MisHum!

Posted by: Pete Seria at November 24, 2025 10:12 PM (nmecE)

56 Re Turkish joke

Wtf?!

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 10:13 PM (zZu0s)

57 54 Yes sir!
I look forward to tandemon's excuses. He is creative.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 10:12 PM (ys6FW)

Thank you.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 24, 2025 10:13 PM (U8Hts)

58 Note: if your joke involves taking off their pants and shoving somwthing up their ass, you are both gay and retarded.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 10:14 PM (zZu0s)

59 Father loses kids. Adult venue closed. Kid blown up (literally). This is not the cheeriest ONT I ever read.

I enjoyed the mystery music.

More fun: kid helps with prepping the turkey
https://youtu.be/gkAvpPpzDZg

Posted by: mindful webworker - is it a boy or a girl turkey? at November 24, 2025 10:14 PM (LaTF/)

60 The Spanish American English French Toast is labeled in Japanese, too! And don’t forget: P I Z Z A.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 24, 2025 10:16 PM (f5j/P)

61 55 He's Back! Nice to see you again, MisHum!
Posted by: Pete Seria at November 24, 2025 10:12 PM (nmecE)

Hey Pete

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 24, 2025 10:16 PM (DpaA8)

62 52 You can't make this up.

https://tinyurl.com/6x9dn2au

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 10:11 PM (glfD5)

Actual lol. That was awesome.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 24, 2025 10:16 PM (U8Hts)

63 Thanks for the ONT, MisHum. Always a great up top pic, love the woods.

Posted by: scampydog at November 24, 2025 10:17 PM (41CYW)

64 Oh, yeah: and.. valet worker is being charged with aggravated speed, reckless operation, failure to show proof of financial responsibility and receiving stolen property

One of the more humorous scenes in Ferris Bueller.

Posted by: mindful webworker - relax. i'm a professional at November 24, 2025 10:17 PM (LaTF/)

65 Lemme help...

http://tiny.cc/gfkv001
Posted by: Joe Kidd

Yep. That’s the one.

Posted by: QED Texan Grandpa-to-be at November 24, 2025 10:18 PM (imVp/)

66 27/No question Tankdemon, you are an American classic

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 24, 2025 10:18 PM (cCn4/)

67 American English French Toast, made in China, flag of Spain....

And Japanese label.

Nuked too much? or not enough?

Posted by: JQ at November 24, 2025 10:18 PM (rdVOm)

68 Aww.. Nemo @60 beat me to it...

Posted by: JQ at November 24, 2025 10:19 PM (rdVOm)

69 Children raised outside of the ubiquitous state's control?
For 99.99999% of humanities existence is no longer allowed.
They will eat processed chicken cubes and sterilized vegetables until a BMI of 50 is achieved.
Probably put unfortified butter without state approved corn syrup with brown coloring on pancakes AND waffles.
To the Tower with the lot of them!

Posted by: LGBTQ+POC, ANTI RACIST HERO at November 24, 2025 10:19 PM (6mk7C)

70 And it just looks like white bread. Maybe French toast flavor or pizza?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 10:20 PM (zZu0s)

71 Ferris Bueller?
Posted by: Anna Puma

I knew I should've checked to see if someone had already made the comment!

Posted by: mindful webworker - Horde mind - it's real and it's spectacular at November 24, 2025 10:20 PM (LaTF/)

72 48 Lovely photo of a forest up top. There's something about it that I just can't put my finger on...
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 24, 2025 10:10 PM (kB9dk)

Looks like El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.

Posted by: Joemarine at November 24, 2025 10:21 PM (y171U)

73 If you want to ask if Japan was nuked too much

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbcEs48-v6g

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 10:22 PM (+k/kq)

74 Any decent valet would know you only do that with the Ferraris and Lambos.
Posted by: Cicero
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That's in Chicago. In Cleveland, you take what you can get. Although, maybe it was an AMG model???

Posted by: buddhaha at November 24, 2025 10:22 PM (QCk9o)

75 Hello MisHum/UM...hope your current location provides warmth and satisfaction...

Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 24, 2025 10:22 PM (cCn4/)

76 Shooting high pressure air up a teenagers butt is just as stupid as eating mushrooms that you found in the woods. Good lord people are dumb. It all makes me want to stay away from people.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 24, 2025 10:23 PM (0Htd1)

77 66 27/No question Tankdemon, you are an American classic
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at November 24, 2025 10:18 PM (cCn4/)

Thank you. (Yes, American. My account is not based in Bangladesh.)

Posted by: tankdemon at November 24, 2025 10:23 PM (U8Hts)

78 The Spanish American English French Toast is labeled in Japanese, too! And don’t forget: P I Z Z A.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 24, 2025 10:16 PM (f5j/P)

Oops. They forgot the Germans! They will invade China to right this slight!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 24, 2025 10:24 PM (S/Y4j)

79 I could make myself feel better by saying that at least the aforementioned dummies weren't Americans. But we have dummies who've let a gazillions barbarians from that shithole Somali take over some of our communities.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 24, 2025 10:25 PM (0Htd1)

80 You can at least say the mushrooms are an honest mistake. I doubt he wanted to poison his kids.

Those kids intended to shove that hose up the other kids ass. That is not really an accidental type of thing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 10:25 PM (zZu0s)

81 It all makes me want to stay away from people.
Posted by: nerdygirl at November 24, 2025 10:23 PM (0Htd1)

Should be okay as long as you're not in any Moslem cities.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 24, 2025 10:25 PM (gKWVE)

82 German?

It needs Jaeger sauce.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 10:25 PM (+k/kq)

83 Ferris Bueller?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Horde mind. You at 30. Me at 35

Posted by: QED Texan Grandpa-to-be at November 24, 2025 10:25 PM (imVp/)

84 Is there any possibility that Trump could deport Ilhan Omar, and maybe even her brother/husband?

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 24, 2025 10:25 PM (0Htd1)

85 Mushrooms from inna woods can be tasty and nutritious if you know what to look for.
Too many people don't know what to look for (or are looking for hallucinogens)

Posted by: gKWVE at November 24, 2025 10:26 PM (gKWVE)

86 I'm thinking about making a Costco run tomorrow while I run other errands. I think I'll cruise through the parking lot, and if I can't find a spot I'll give up. Nothing I really need there for a few days, anyway.

I bought a sad looking pumpkin pie at Wal-Mart today, just in case the Costco trip falls through. I wonder if it was made in China.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 24, 2025 10:26 PM (8QVSJ)

87 Hello to all you good commenters & lurkers
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at November 24, 2025 09:49 PM (DpaA

(snif)

I get here late and get left out of MisHum's greeting.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2025 10:26 PM (uQesX)

88 We have in the US idiots who ate Tide Pods and took the cinnamon challenge. Plus the idiots who do the 2am 'let's bash some stranger's door!'

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 10:26 PM (+k/kq)

89 Hi MisHum and everyone! Another crazy day down. I completely reorganized my linen closet. Everything in the right bin, towels folded and stacked neatly, sheets in their baskets, extra blankets in their baskets on the top shelf. Now I want to lock it so no one can get in it but me. 😂

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2025 10:27 PM (OoFl2)

90 Everything made in China should have a mandatory label saying "CHY-NA" and a picture of Mao

Posted by: Trumpian Miklosian Anti-Marketing SA de CV at November 24, 2025 10:27 PM (N7hqt)

91 Too late Piper, you missed Soup taking a nap in there.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 10:28 PM (+k/kq)

92 The Spanish American English French Toast is labeled in Japanese, too! And don’t forget: P I Z Z A.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

Misspelled Japanese. The first word is I-gi-ri-su? It should be イングリッシュ, I-n-gu-ri-(glottal stop)-shu.

They (or their AI) got the transliterated katakana for "French" and "Toast" right, though.

Posted by: mikeski-san at November 24, 2025 10:29 PM (nhCoE)

93 Is there any possibility that Trump could deport Ilhan Omar, and maybe even her brother/husband?
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Last I heard/read, the brother is living in London.

Posted by: clarence at November 24, 2025 10:30 PM (GE9Fw)

94 Shooting high pressure air up a teenagers butt is just as stupid as eating mushrooms that you found in the woods. Good lord people are dumb. It all makes me want to stay away from people.
Posted by: nerdygirl at November 24, 2025 10:23 PM (0Htd1

It's not a prank - thats just typical whitewashing.

Forcibly sodomizing someone to death with a foreign object isn't so uncommon among the wonderful, oh-so-special Muslims (see Qaddafi).

90% chance this kid was gay (or the killers at least thought so), and this is just the local authorities' excuse for a slap-on-the-wrist. Boys bein' boys.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 10:30 PM (BI5O2)

95 Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 10:22 PM (+k/kq)

I've been seeing a youtube ad for some retro-ish game with a web address annapuma-something or otherdot com. Does that have anything to do with you?

Posted by: Methos at November 24, 2025 10:31 PM (vSvIl)

96 I bought a sad looking pumpkin pie at Wal-Mart today, just in case the Costco trip falls through. I wonder if it was made in China.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

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I am making a pumpkin pie. Never made one before. The Chicom version may be preferable.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 10:31 PM (ys6FW)

97 47 We definitely need Muslims here. They're so smart and awesome.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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If I didn't know you.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 10:31 PM (+Omlu)

98 91 Too late Piper, you missed Soup taking a nap in there.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 10

He won’t go in the bathroom! He is goofy with his self imposed forbidden zones. Though he has stuck his head through the door when the cats were in there, but his paws do not cross the threshold.

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2025 10:31 PM (OoFl2)

99 The pizza photo on the package - pepperoni and jalapeno

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 10:31 PM (+k/kq)

100 Methos, ara?

Someone owes me money!!!

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 10:32 PM (+k/kq)

101 Walmart used to sell fruitcake every season. Not so the last two.
Soak it in a whiskey towel for a couple of weeks. I miss it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 10:32 PM (+Omlu)

102 Wal Mart is already selling eggnog.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 10:33 PM (+k/kq)

103 Nice musical choices MisHum, in that same vein, JJ Cale:

https://tinyurl.com/2s3jnryt

Posted by: Pikov Andropov at November 24, 2025 10:33 PM (y7zkd)

104 We have in the US idiots who ate Tide Pods and took the cinnamon challenge. Plus the idiots who do the 2am 'let's bash some stranger's door!'
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 10:26 PM (+k/kq)

You forgot us. We're disappointed.

Posted by: Bath Salts at November 24, 2025 10:33 PM (8QVSJ)

105 MisHum!

Awesome to see you, sir!

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 24, 2025 10:33 PM (mT+6a)

106 Hmm. It's called English French Toast, it's designated American, there's a Spanish flag, it has a picture of pizza and it's made in China.

So Peruvian?

I give up.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2025 10:01 PM (dyewR)

I see Korean and I don't know what other languages.

Posted by: RickZ at November 24, 2025 10:33 PM (gKDq2)

107 Sounds like Soup amuses you to no end Piper.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 10:34 PM (+k/kq)

108 86 I'm thinking about making a Costco run tomorrow while I run other errands.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 24, 2025 10:26 PM
***
Costco two days before Thanksgiving?

"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me"

Posted by: TRex - old testament dino at November 24, 2025 10:34 PM (cCn4/)

109 Hi MisHum and everyone! Another crazy day down. I completely reorganized my linen closet. Everything in the right bin, towels folded and stacked neatly, sheets in their baskets, extra blankets in their baskets on the top shelf. Now I want to lock it so no one can get in it but me. 😂
Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2025 10:27 PM (OoFl2)

Wait til I get to it.

Posted by: Supercat at November 24, 2025 10:34 PM (uQesX)

110 My son works security at the Ryman Theater.

I should hit him up for some tickets. For a show I'd actually like. Which they have, like, once every 4 years. Or so.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 24, 2025 10:09 PM (NwnyJ)

Well, odds are pretty good you will never see Levon Helm there again. RIP, Levon.

Two stellar music selections tonight, MisHum!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2025 10:34 PM (npFr7)

111 The pizza photo on the package - pepperoni and jalapeno
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 10:31 PM (+k/kq)

There are worse combos. Helpful hint: Anything with pineapple.

Posted by: RickZ at November 24, 2025 10:34 PM (gKDq2)

112 Misspelled Japanese. The first word is I-gi-ri-su? It should be イングリッシュ, I-n-gu-ri-(glottal stop)-shu.

They (or their AI) got the transliterated katakana for "French" and "Toast" right, though.
Posted by: mikeski-san at November 24, 2025 10:29 PM (nhCoE)

I spent a few hours watching a guy ask Japanese people about Japanese words, and they didn't know most of them.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2025 10:35 PM (uQesX)

113 And it just looks like white bread. Maybe French toast flavor or pizza?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 10:20 PM (zZu0s)

I think it is Texas toast. Or TexMex toast.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 10:36 PM (rbvCR)

114 Bath salt zombies?

Thought all of you had eaten your faces off by now.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 10:36 PM (+k/kq)

115 107 Sounds like Soup amuses you to no end Piper.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025

He is truly the sweetest soul. He sat on a cat today to get the cat to move so he could have prime cuddle spots. The only Shiba Inu trait he really has is zero recall. Otherwise he is not aloof, he is not serious, he is dramatic- so 2 traits!

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2025 10:36 PM (OoFl2)

116 a breakfast spot and sports bar, making no mention of adult entertainment.

WTH? He told you it was a sport bar.

Posted by: GWB at November 24, 2025 10:37 PM (UsBev)

117 Misspelled Japanese. The first word is I-gi-ri-su? It should be イングリッシュ, I-n-gu-ri-(glottal stop)-shu.

They (or their AI) got the transliterated katakana for "French" and "Toast" right, though.

Posted by: mikeski-san at November 24, 2025 10:29 PM (nhCoE)

Igirisu is UK in Japanese

Posted by: Sjg at November 24, 2025 10:37 PM (aqZN1)

118 It’s bed time! Night, y’all.

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2025 10:37 PM (OoFl2)

119 Advances in artificial physique from Boston Dynamics

youtu.be/3QRtVZRblmg

Posted by: mindful webworker - subsidiary of SkyNet at November 24, 2025 10:37 PM (LaTF/)

120 Oops. They forgot the Germans! They will invade China to right this slight!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 24, 2025 10:24 PM (S/Y4j)

Ah, yes. Tedeschi brand Pizza-schnitzels. Coming to a Legation near you!

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 10:37 PM (rbvCR)

121 Take care Piper and give Soup a scritch for me.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 10:38 PM (+k/kq)

122 Methos, ara?

Someone owes me money!!!
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 10:32 PM (+k/kq)

Yeah, I found it on Steam under new releases. The game is called Morsels and is published by "Annapuma Interactive."

Posted by: Methos at November 24, 2025 10:38 PM (vSvIl)

123 to be honest, the Germans mostly took the Taku forts, but expanded trading through the thirties until the Japanese complained

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 10:38 PM (rbvCR)

124 Walmart used to sell fruitcake every season. Not so the last two.
Soak it in a whiskey towel for a couple of weeks. I miss it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 10:32 PM (+Omlu)

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My MaMaw made wonderful fruitcake. It was like a poundcake with fruit. It was wonderful. I made it once and it was good, but it made so much. We don't eat that much cake.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 10:38 PM (ys6FW)

125 I am making a pumpkin pie. Never made one before. The Chicom version may be preferable.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 10:31 PM (ys6FW)

They're easy enough to do. Buy the sugar pumpkin from your favorite store and look under the label. Instructions printed on the back side. Tip: prebake your crust for about five minutes before putting in pumpkin puree. Put foil over the crust edges if they start getting brown too soon.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2025 10:38 PM (uQesX)

126 Interesting to read that the devil is in the details regarding the President Trump Executive Order regarding the Muslim Brotherhood:

Why This EO Falls Short: Untouched Hubs and Global Reach

Your point about the EO's narrow scope is well-substantiated by the document itself and broader context. The MB, founded in 1928 in Egypt, operates as a decentralized transnational network with ideological, financial, and political arms spanning over 70 countries. Its "operational hubs" -- Qatar, Turkey, and Syria-linked networks -- remain unmentioned & unaffected. These are the MB's most resilient & influential elements, often shielded by host governments for geopolitical reasons (e.g., Qatar's role as a U.S. military base host, Turkey's NATO status).

Impact of the Gaps: These hubs enable the MB's "grand jihad" strategy, as outlined in the 1991 "Explanatory Memorandum" (unsealed in the Holy Land Foundation trial). They sustain the very activities you list -- U.S. financing (e.g., $100M+ to MB-linked U.S. nonprofits since 2010, per ISGAP reports), election influence (e.g., via voter mobilization in swing states), Hamas funding ($1.8B total since 2012)...

Grok: https://bit.ly/4rl7heF

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 24, 2025 10:39 PM (P5BPp)

127 Oops. They forgot the Germans! They will invade China to right this slight!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

They actually didn't.

ドイツ風

doitsu-fuu

"German-style."

Posted by: mikeski-san at November 24, 2025 10:39 PM (nhCoE)

128 Sure its not Annapurna Interactive? The totes woke 'game developer' that had its devs walk out?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 10:40 PM (+k/kq)

129 Should be okay as long as you're not in any Moslem cities.
Posted by: gKWVE

We have quite a few immigrants in my neighborhood, but they are more Asians, and a few from Africa. I don't think there are any Muslims.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 24, 2025 10:41 PM (0Htd1)

130 Well, the spaghetti won't make itself. Better get after it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2025 10:41 PM (npFr7)

131 90 Everything made in China should have a mandatory label saying "CHY-NA" and a picture of Mao

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I still have a cigarette lighter around here somewhere with Mao's murderous mug on the front. It plays The Dawn Is Red when you flip open the lid.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2025 10:41 PM (dyewR)

132 Do not play Morsels, Kotaku likes it.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 10:41 PM (+k/kq)

133 They're easy enough to do. Buy the sugar pumpkin from your favorite store and look under the label. Instructions printed on the back side. Tip: prebake your crust for about five minutes before putting in pumpkin puree. Put foil over the crust edges if they start getting brown too soon.

Posted by: OrangeEnt

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Thank you! I am a good cook but don't bake much. Baking is a different world.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 10:41 PM (ys6FW)

134 Kotakubis still around?!

Who knew?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 10:42 PM (zZu0s)

135 I am making a pumpkin pie. Never made one before. The Chicom version may be preferable.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 10:31 PM (ys6FW)

Butternut squash makes a superior pie, IMO. Same other ingredients. You'll thank me...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 24, 2025 10:42 PM (nbLIj)

136 Thank you! I am a good cook but don't bake much. Baking is a different world.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 10:41 PM (ys6FW)

Get premade crusts unless you want to make your own. But it's easier with premade.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 24, 2025 10:43 PM (uQesX)

137 Aetius

Apparently but all its content by now maybe AI generated by Elbonians.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 10:44 PM (+k/kq)

138 Sure its not Annapurna Interactive? The totes woke 'game developer' that had its devs walk out?
-
Ah, you're correct.

Posted by: Methos at November 24, 2025 10:44 PM (vSvIl)

139 I am making a pumpkin pie. Never made one before. The Chicom version may be preferable.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

Coconut Creme Pie here

As a total virgin at this, I have confidence in the recipe.

My Aunt wrote down what she learnt from Grandma.

Forensics indicate this piece of paper with Valuable Information dates from c. 1953.

Posted by: Miklos faces culinary challenges fearlessly at November 24, 2025 10:44 PM (N7hqt)

140 Butternut squash makes a superior pie, IMO. Same other ingredients. You'll thank me...

Posted by: Joe Kidd

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I have some carnival squash. Would those work?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 10:45 PM (ys6FW)

141 *looks at time*

Fifteen minutes until I win the Powerball. Nyah.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 10:45 PM (+k/kq)

142 85 Mushrooms from inna woods can be tasty and nutritious if you know what to look for.
Too many people don't know what to look for (or are looking for hallucinogens)
Posted by: gKWVE

Someone I knew years ago would go out in the spring looking for morels. A store near me occasionally has them, but they are usually $60 to $100 per pound. They're lightweight so a couple of times I've splurged on a handful of them. For a little more than $10 they're a treat.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 24, 2025 10:45 PM (0Htd1)

143 Lovely photo of a forest up top. There's something about it that I just can't put my finger on...
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at November 24, 2025 10:10 PM

Looks like El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.
Posted by: Joemarine
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There's only a glimpse, but I was thinking "Dawn Wall", too.

Posted by: buddhaha at November 24, 2025 10:45 PM (QCk9o)

144 Igirisu is UK in Japanese
Posted by: Sjg

So it is. TIL.....

So call it an incorrectly-chosen word and not a misspelling. Or the English line is wrong, and it should say "British French Toast."

Posted by: mikeski-kun at November 24, 2025 10:46 PM (nhCoE)

145 If it is El Capitan? Where is Kirk?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 10:46 PM (+k/kq)

146 From that package…does that mean Queen Letizia is our ruler?

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 24, 2025 10:47 PM (6KcYW)

147 It plays The Dawn Is Red when you flip open the lid.
Posted by: Cicero

You sexy running dog devil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRsdXSqQjPE

Posted by: Red Guard Miklos, proletarian soul man at November 24, 2025 10:47 PM (N7hqt)

148 Plus the idiots who do the 2am 'let's bash some stranger's door!'
Posted by: Anna Puma

I'm not familiar with that one. Did they get shot?

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 24, 2025 10:47 PM (0Htd1)

149 Butternut squash makes a superior pie, IMO. Same other ingredients. You'll thank me...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 24, 2025 10:42 PM (nbLIj)

sweet-meat winter squash make a really good pie, unfortunately they are usually fairly large. I grew two this year and the large one is the size of a small child.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 10:47 PM (rbvCR)

150 Leon's rendition of Corine Corina, well, it's not...

youtu.be/ReKSGlNfskw at all.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 10:48 PM (+Omlu)

151 Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok

Jammie Booker, a man pretending to be a woman, just won the title of “World’s Strongest Woman” at the World’s Strongest Woman competition in Arlington, Texas.

Andrea Thompson, the female runner-up, had her title stolen by a man.

KEEP MEN OUT OF WOMEN’S SPORTS

X video: https://bit.ly/4aaPT63

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 24, 2025 10:48 PM (P5BPp)

152 Sure its not Annapurna Interactive? The totes woke 'game developer' that had its devs walk out?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Seriously, who would make a spelling mistake like that?

Posted by: James Corney at November 24, 2025 10:48 PM (nhCoE)

153 I still have a cigarette lighter around here somewhere with Mao's murderous mug on the front. It plays The Dawn Is Red when you flip open the lid.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2025 10:41 PM (dyewR)

I thought that was “The East Is Red”.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 24, 2025 10:48 PM (6KcYW)

154 Jimmy Cliff
July 30, 1944 – November 24, 2025

Rolling Stones, You Can't Always Get What You Want

Jimmy Cliff says hold my Red Stripe
You Can Get It If You Try
https://youtu.be/U7dBMYUyRAQ

Bonus cut
https://youtu.be/MrHxhQPOO2c

mindful webbit
https://bit.ly/clee-searly

Posted by: mindful webworker - cliff cliff pass that spliff at November 24, 2025 10:48 PM (LaTF/)

155 Last I heard/read, the brother is living in London.
Posted by: clarence

Better welfare?

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 24, 2025 10:48 PM (0Htd1)

156 130 Well, the spaghetti won't make itself. Better get after it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Nice! I had smoked salmon fettuccini. Boil pasta. Heat pesto and Alfredo sauce. Mix in a chunk of smoked salmon. Lots of pepper. Add some park if you want.

Yum!

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 24, 2025 10:48 PM (mT+6a)

157 I thought that was “The East Is Red”.
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 24, 2025 10:48 PM (6KcYW)

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Probably. It's in Chinese.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2025 10:49 PM (dyewR)

158 Nerdy Girl

In Texas, a 17 year old and buds did just that. Just before graduating high school. He graduated to a cemetery plot.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 10:50 PM (+k/kq)

159 131 90 Everything made in China should have a mandatory label saying "CHY-NA" and a picture of Mao

It is on a blank page that the most beautiful poems are written.

Posted by: Mao at November 24, 2025 10:50 PM (6KcYW)

160 141 *looks at time*

Fifteen minutes until I win the Powerball. Nyah.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 10:45 PM (+k/kq)

Luck to you

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 24, 2025 10:50 PM (xcxpd)

161 making a pumpkin pie. "

Did that today...
1. Drive to Costco
2. Buy giant tasty pumpkin pie for less than cost for me to bake it.
3. Eat.

Posted by: man at November 24, 2025 10:51 PM (XuXeR)

162 Arigato Mark-san!

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 10:51 PM (+k/kq)

163 Get premade crusts unless you want to make your own. But it's easier with premade.

Posted by: OrangeEnt

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Pre-made crusts at the ready. I used to do homemade when I had a food processor. They were flaky and good. But more trouble than I want to take. I am cooking the whole meal. If someone gripes about the pie crust, it won't go well for them.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 10:51 PM (ys6FW)

164
I wonder how French EnglishToast would come out.
Posted by: Tom Servo

I like French bread pizzas.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 24, 2025 10:51 PM (pkeXY)

165 Forensics indicate this piece of paper with Valuable Information dates from c. 1953.
Posted by: Miklos faces culinary challenges fearlessly at November 24, 2025 10:44 PM (N7hqt)

A lot of granma recipes are a list of ingredients and maybe some baking times.
If you have never made one before I suggest you plan to make one tomorrow and the one for real for Thanksgiving. Also look up recipes online with the same-ish ingredients and see if there is any special handling your beloved ancestor forgot to write down because "after all, I do this all the time, that is how you make these sorts of pies!" which might be important.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 10:51 PM (rbvCR)

166 Probably. It's in Chinese.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2025 10:49 PM (dyewR)

One of my favorite things I read about regarding the Cultural Revolution was the time the PRC PM had to intervene to prevent the Red Guards from changing the meaning of traffic signals so that red would mean “go”.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 24, 2025 10:52 PM (6KcYW)

167 I bought a sad looking pumpkin pie at Wal-Mart today, just in case the Costco trip falls through. I wonder if it was made in China.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

I'm going to take my life into my hands and venture to the store tomorrow. I won't get a pumpkin pie though, blech. I'm thinking a pecan pie. The store I'm going to has pies in their bakery department that are like homemade.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 24, 2025 10:53 PM (0Htd1)

168 Hi Horde! Happy Thanksgiving week!

Posted by: Iris at November 24, 2025 10:53 PM (bOJ2I)

169 I have some carnival squash. Would those work?
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 10:45 PM (ys6FW)

Yes. Any winter squash would work

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 24, 2025 10:53 PM (nbLIj)

170 147 It plays The Dawn Is Red when you flip open the lid.
Posted by: Cicero

You sexy running dog devil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRsdXSqQjPE
Posted by: Red Guard Miklos, proletarian soul man at November 24, 2025 10:47 PM (N7hqt)

Surpass Britain and catch up with America.

Posted by: Mao at November 24, 2025 10:54 PM (6KcYW)

171 For Thanksgiving dinner with the kids and grandkids, I am going to make an hor d'oeuvres that one of my aunts made for her annual Christmas night get together: A bit of anchovy on a slice of hard boiled egg on a Ritz cracker. I remember eating as many as I could get away with as a kid. OTOH, we all know how rosy the past can look on occasion. Wish me luck.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at November 24, 2025 10:54 PM (DK5Sh)

172 Well let me meander. I am hoping the gray I need is light ghost gray.

Ciao

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 10:54 PM (+k/kq)

173 Did that today...
1. Drive to Costco
2. Buy giant tasty pumpkin pie for less than cost for me to bake it.
3. Eat.
Posted by: man at November 24, 2025 10:51 PM (XuXeR)

I bought 3 Costco pumpkin pies last Friday and put them in the freezer. They stay fresh for weeks that way. I'll take one out Wednesday to thaw in time for Thanksgiving.

Posted by: Beartooth at November 24, 2025 10:55 PM (0714D)

174
youtu.be/ReKSGlNfskw at all.

Posted by: Braenyard

I am pleased that I am old enough and lived in the right place to have heard and seen Big Joe Turner perform.

Posted by: Former Nawlinsian Miklos who might not be 29 at November 24, 2025 10:55 PM (N7hqt)

175 102 Wal Mart is already selling eggnog.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Ooh, I have a bottle of rum in the kitchen.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 24, 2025 10:55 PM (0Htd1)

176 I miss Thanksgiving. : )

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 24, 2025 10:55 PM (6KcYW)

177 Yes. Any winter squash would work

Posted by: Joe Kidd

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Thanks. I bought them for decor, but am glad to use them 😊

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 10:55 PM (ys6FW)

178 Local HEB has big pie display/counter at the front door, and one is greeted by the scents of warm pies (they keep a couple on a warming tray, the scallywags) as you struggle to recall what else you came there for...

Posted by: man at November 24, 2025 10:56 PM (XuXeR)

179 EBT of TikTok @EBTofTikTok

Woman shows off the different holiday items that are EBT eligible from Walmart.

X video: https://bit.ly/4pvc0Zw

EBT needs a major DOGE review. I would guess at least 50% of the things that are EBT eligible need to be removed from being EBT eligible.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 24, 2025 10:56 PM (P5BPp)

180 I bought 3 Costco pumpkin pies last Friday and put them in the freezer."

That's a good sized freezer...

Posted by: man at November 24, 2025 10:57 PM (XuXeR)

181 Ooh, I have a bottle of rum in the kitchen.
Posted by: nerdygirl

I had one too

About noon

Posted by: Miklos makes minimal, if any apologies at November 24, 2025 10:58 PM (N7hqt)

182
I bought a sad looking pumpkin pie at Wal-Mart today, just in case the Costco trip falls through. I wonder if it was made in China.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

I buy miniature pumpkin pies at Wal Mart.
They're pretty good if not stale. They are 84 cents. They were 50 cents before Covid.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 24, 2025 10:58 PM (pkeXY)

183 I would guess at least 50% of the things that are EBT eligible need to be removed from being EBT eligible."

We'll see.

/Coca-Cola and Walmart

Posted by: man at November 24, 2025 10:59 PM (XuXeR)

184 I buy miniature pumpkin pies at Wal Mart.
They're pretty good if not stale. They are 84 cents. They were 50 cents before Covid.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Sorry to tell you this

They are not made from actual miniature pumpkins

Posted by: Miklos kindly requests the messenger not to be shot at November 24, 2025 11:00 PM (N7hqt)

185 Local HEB has big pie display/counter at the front door, and one is greeted by the scents of warm pies (they keep a couple on a warming tray, the scallywags) as you struggle to recall what else you came there for...

Posted by: man

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Ditto. I had a list and kept walking. But they looked good.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 11:01 PM (ys6FW)

186
They make "tiny wood stoves." I did not know that. Some people, who live full-time in their campers/RVs, put them inside.

Anyway, they're really cute.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 11:02 PM (z2RVL)

187 Walmart has a good selection of miniatures. It's fun. Too bad they don't do fruitcake anymore.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 11:02 PM (+Omlu)

188 >>>I am pleased that I am old enough and lived in the right place to have heard and seen Big Joe Turner perform.
Posted by: Former Nawlinsian Miklos
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Awesome.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 11:02 PM (+Omlu)

189 Walmart has a good selection of miniatures. It's fun. Too bad they don't do fruitcake anymore.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 11:02 PM (+Omlu)

If they did, they'd have to put UPC codes on some of their customers. I wonder if it would be a unit price, or a price per pound....

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 24, 2025 11:04 PM (S/Y4j)

190 Evening all!

Posted by: Joyenz at November 24, 2025 11:05 PM (2F0/Y)

191 We didn't eat pumpkin pie where I grew up. It was sweet potato pie. That was good pie.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 11:05 PM (ys6FW)

192 Everything you wanted to know about Costco pumpkin pie

https://youtu.be/nT6kLF7XgeA

13 minutes.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 24, 2025 11:05 PM (8QVSJ)

193 I think the world could use some Frank Zappa right about now.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 24, 2025 11:05 PM (CHHv1)

194 I saw something that you don't see every day: a highway snowplow, ass end in the ditch, stuck real good. They had traffic cones out, and a pickup from the highway service company was also there. Guess they were waiting on a big rig tow truck. Road conditions were not bad at all. My guess he was trying to clear an approach, and miscalculated.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2025 11:06 PM (npFr7)

195 I see Korean and I don't know what other languages.
Posted by: RickZ

Even AI cannot crack the linguistic Mystery of Magyar

Posted by: Moderately Magyar Miklos at November 24, 2025 11:07 PM (N7hqt)

196 186
They make "tiny wood stoves."
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Wooden stove don't last too long but they put out a lot of heat.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 11:07 PM (+Omlu)

197
moar tiny stoves...

Here's a couple of dummies who installed a tiny stove inside their Airstream:

https://is.gd/24Oa07

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 11:08 PM (z2RVL)

198 Pie?
https://www.justpiestyler.com/
Pie.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 24, 2025 11:09 PM (ULPxl)

199 AOP, I didn't realize snowplows were allowed to get stuck in the Great White North. There are no snowplows of any sort here, so no judgement. We just stay home when it is too cold.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 11:10 PM (ys6FW)

200 Awesome.
Posted by: Braenyard

I also saw the Isley Brothers when two of the original three were still alive.

Posted by: Miklos twists and shouts at November 24, 2025 11:11 PM (N7hqt)

201 Anna Puma, sadly kids do stupid things, especially after graduation.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 24, 2025 11:12 PM (0Htd1)

202 Arizona your two Senators are IDIOTS !!!

What is wrong with you ???

That Kelly Guy is a Buffoon and the other Senator is a Jerk Wad ...

Posted by: ZeeK Jones at November 24, 2025 11:13 PM (J9q9v)

203 I saw something that you don't see every day: a highway snowplow, ass end in the ditch, stuck real good. They had traffic cones out, and a pickup from the highway service company was also there. Guess they were waiting on a big rig tow truck. Road conditions were not bad at all. My guess he was trying to clear an approach, and miscalculated.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

See, I was trying to drift the truck around the corner.

Then I'd post it to my Instagram, and say "check out this snow drift!"

And, well, yeah.

Posted by: the Gen Z plow driver at November 24, 2025 11:13 PM (nhCoE)

204 AOP, I didn't realize snowplows were allowed to get stuck in the Great White North. There are no snowplows of any sort here, so no judgement. We just stay home when it is too cold.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 11:10 PM (ys6FW)

They are basically a tandem-axle gravel truck, fitted with a big plow blade on the front. I made a road trip to Drumheller today, and must have met at least six of them. We had a 2-3 inch dump of snow last night. Paved roads were mostly clear and wet; it was not a difficult drive at all.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2025 11:14 PM (npFr7)

205 Oops. They forgot the Germans! They will invade China to right this slight!

Germans will get right to it once the platoon gets back from vacation, and the tank and plane are fixed

Posted by: Azjaeger at November 24, 2025 11:15 PM (3/XaG)

206 Here's a couple of dummies who installed a tiny stove inside their Airstream:

https://is.gd/24Oa07

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 11:08 PM (z2RVL)

When she stands next to the stove, the top of it is above her head. How does she cook like that?

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 24, 2025 11:17 PM (wVcYX)

207 We had a 2-3 inch dump of snow last night. Paved roads were mostly clear and wet; it was not a difficult drive at all.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

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That would be a fine day to stay home in central TX. People lose it when there is snow. Or ice.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 11:18 PM (ys6FW)

208 Even AI cannot crack the linguistic Mystery of Magyar

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Uralic pricks.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2025 11:18 PM (dyewR)

209 Just went outside for a moment...f*cking bear has been in the garbage.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 24, 2025 11:19 PM (XeU6L)

210 Here's a couple of dummies who installed a tiny stove inside their Airstream:

https://is.gd/24Oa07

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 11:08 PM (z2RVL)

Her husband is going to be spending a lot of time processing firewood into small enough chunks to fit in the tiny stove. Then there's the time needed for sharpening the splitting axe and the saw. . .

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 24, 2025 11:20 PM (wVcYX)

211 I remember being camped on a mineral job in late Fall, and we had a tin "prospector stove" about the size of one of those "tiny stoves" to keep a 4-man tent warm. It would roar like a rocket for about a half hour until the wood ran out, and then it just quit, like shutting off a light. You could hear it quit, it was that abrupt. And once it did, you basically had to start from Square One to relight it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2025 11:20 PM (npFr7)

212 209 Just went outside for a moment...f*cking bear has been in the garbage.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 24, 2025 11:19 PM (XeU6L)

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Indians. What are ya gonna do?

*shrugs*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2025 11:20 PM (dyewR)

213 EBT of TikTok @EBTofTikTok
Woman shows off the different holiday items that are EBT eligible from Walmart.....
Posted by: Clyde Shelton

I had to stop at :30. The idea of a low income woman with kids to feed throwing her money away on stupid crap like that is criminal. If that woman is sincere, and isn't deliberately doing this as a way to enrage people, then she is a retard.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 24, 2025 11:20 PM (0Htd1)

214 Here's a couple of dummies who installed a tiny stove inside their Airstream:

https://is.gd/24Oa07

Posted by: Soothsayer
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You can pretty much forget hot coffee in the morning.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 24, 2025 11:21 PM (XeU6L)

215 While everyone is worrying about illegals, legal Indians (via H1B) are colonizing the US.

They already own tech and not just low level H1Bs. They’re the CEOs of most big name tech companies. Consulting is becoming Indian dominated, Deloitte’s CEO is Indian. They’re also are slowly taking over education and making steady inroads in government. MTG’s BFF in Congress is Ro Khona. Trump celebrated Diwali, a presidential first.

While a few thousand low skill, low wage illegals a month get deported with big fanfare, 5K new Indians in high wage high skill industries are replacing them.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 11:21 PM (HW6XE)

216 My guess he was trying to clear an approach, and miscalculated.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I did not know that illegals can get snow plow driver licenses in Canadia.

Posted by: Miklos learns a lot here at November 24, 2025 11:22 PM (N7hqt)

217
When she stands next to the stove, the top of it is above her head. How does she cook like that?
Posted by: Count de Monet

Stands on a stool, maybe? I dunno.

But they kept calling a hearth a "herth" instead of saying "harth."

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 11:22 PM (z2RVL)

218 Her husband is going to be spending a lot of time processing firewood into small enough chunks to fit in the tiny stove. Then there's the time needed for sharpening the splitting axe and the saw. . .
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 24, 2025 11:20 PM (wVcYX)

It's also taking up a lot of valuable and scarce counter space, and the wood storage also takes up interior space. You could buy a lot of propane for what that stove cost, I'll betcha.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2025 11:22 PM (npFr7)

219 Uralic pricks.
Posted by: Cicero

Careful baratom.

Hungarians built the first atom bombs.

Hell, my uncle has one half finished in his garage. Hobby project, up on blocks.

Posted by: Miklos Szilard Teller von Neumann at November 24, 2025 11:24 PM (N7hqt)

220 When I was young, the standard 'stove' for small marine craft was an alcohol stove.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 24, 2025 11:25 PM (XeU6L)

221
You can pretty much forget hot coffee in the morning.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
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Her husband is going to be spending a lot of time processing firewood into small enough chunks to fit in the tiny stove. Then there's the time needed for sharpening the splitting axe and the saw. . .
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 24, 2025 11:20 PM (wVcYX)
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It's also taking up a lot of valuable and scarce counter space, and the wood storage also takes up interior space. You could buy a lot of propane for what that stove cost, I'll betcha.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


hahahaha, and I thought I was cynical...

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 11:26 PM (z2RVL)

222
Hell, my uncle has one half finished in his garage. Hobby project, up on blocks.
Posted by: Miklos
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Sounds like my '78 Olds Cutlass Calais.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 24, 2025 11:26 PM (XeU6L)

223 I see the mindless bot is back.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 11:26 PM (rbvCR)

224 Hell, my uncle has one half finished in his garage. Hobby project, up on blocks.

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Next Fourth of July should be a hoot.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2025 11:27 PM (dyewR)

225 When I was young, the standard 'stove' for small marine craft was an alcohol stove.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

DA!

Posted by: Russian sailors, mildly inebriated at November 24, 2025 11:27 PM (N7hqt)

226 Indians. What are ya gonna do?

*shrugs*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2025 11:20 PM (dyewR)

It took me a minute to get that, now the more I think about it the more I laugh - ROFL!

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 24, 2025 11:27 PM (ngbZu)

227 That would be a fine day to stay home in central TX. People lose it when there is snow. Or ice.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 11:18 PM (ys6FW)

Do you even have snow in texas?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 24, 2025 11:28 PM (snZF9)

228 I'm pretty sure woodstove girl is kneeling next to the stove.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 24, 2025 11:28 PM (8QVSJ)

229 You can pretty much forget hot coffee in the morning.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 24, 2025 11:21 PM (XeU6L)

I was reading a transcribed diary and letters of a Union soldier. In one of the letters his father sent him his father apologizes for finishing the letter in pencil, since the ink in the inkwell had frozen on the mantlepiece overnight.

She could easily have a small alcohol stove for cooking, which I would suggest since those will cook a pot of coffee pretty quickly

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 11:29 PM (rbvCR)

230 Here's a couple of dummies who installed a tiny stove inside their Airstream:

https://is.gd/24Oa07

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 11:08 PM (z2RVL)

Comment from that YT:

@Jacob2infinity
2 weeks ago
This is for decorators purposes only as soon as you focus on value to time ratio this stove becomes a mistake

@Meghanandmatt
2 weeks ago
This thing is awesome and you're just jealous you don't have one

Narrator: MeghanandMatt are idiots.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 24, 2025 11:29 PM (wVcYX)

231
lol

I guess they are a couple of dummies.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 11:30 PM (z2RVL)

232 I see the mindless bot is back.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 11:26 PM (rbvCR)

You're going to have to be more specific.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2025 11:31 PM (npFr7)

233 I had to stop at :30. The idea of a low income woman with kids to feed throwing her money away on stupid crap like that is criminal. If that woman is sincere, and isn't deliberately doing this as a way to enrage people, then she is a retard.

Posted by: nerdygirl

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I volunteered with a local foodbank for years. It wore me out. A relative few were poor because of current circumstances. Most were there because of generational poverty or poor life choices. So many people are just broken and cannot be helped.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 11:31 PM (ys6FW)

234 Sounds like my '78 Olds Cutlass Calais.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

The late 60s-70s Cutlass convertibles were da bomb

Posted by: Miklos wants one at November 24, 2025 11:31 PM (N7hqt)

235 I knew a kid who died age 17 spilling wood alcohol while filling a stove. Burned to death. Beer and pot were contributing factors.

Posted by: RIP Rickie at November 24, 2025 11:32 PM (zmYmM)

236 I also saw the Isley Brothers when two of the original three were still alive.
Posted by: Miklos twists and shouts

I once saw the Isley Brothers at an outdoor concert. It think they were the originals because they were pretty old. Anyway, when they did "Shout" and "Twist and Shout" everyone was on their feet. It's the kind of music you want to see live.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 24, 2025 11:32 PM (0Htd1)

237 Islam is totally better than the west...of course we are the horde so....


"Hey sailor!"

//Mayor Pete

Posted by: sven at November 24, 2025 11:33 PM (MUJd1)

238 The kid in Turkey what blew up real good? That was murder, no prank.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2025 11:33 PM (npFr7)

239 My wife's kid has asked us for a wood stove for the house, since she is concerned about power failures. Last time the power went out it was for three days and they spent that time under blankets with the dogs in one of the bedrooms.
She wants one that she can cook on, but I think I will see if she will accept one of the kerosene cook stoves as well.
A lot of places have used those for day-to-day cooking.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 11:33 PM (rbvCR)

240
hahaha, some times Youtube is a goldmine!

A comment from a different "tiny stove" video:

Chimney fires are amazing!! Sounds like a run away freight train, Chug, chug, chug!!! I rented a shitty log shack out of town and it had a shitty log shack wood stove with a chimney plugged with creosote. I climbed up on the roof and took the cap off, and I couldn't have dropped a ping-pong ball down the chimney and the landlord said he just had it cleaned, he lies about everything. So I didn't what my dad did once. I lit the stove, opened the flew all the way and shoved a air mattress inflator in the door and let her burn out. I went outside at night and it was snowing and the top two feet of the stove pipe was cherry red and blasting six foot flames into the sky like a pulse jet, flaming ashes landing on the snow covered roof. Awesome!

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 11:34 PM (z2RVL)

241 But they kept calling a hearth a "herth" instead of saying "harth."
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 11:22 PM (z2RVL)

Hearth is pronounced just like hearse. Amirite?

Posted by: RickZ at November 24, 2025 11:34 PM (gKDq2)

242 Do you even have snow in texas?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

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Very little, thank goodness. Give me 100 degrees, dude. That I can do.

There was the Snowpocalypse of 2021, when the whole state froze. We are preppers so managed. It wasn't a fun time for people.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 11:35 PM (ys6FW)

243 She could easily have a small alcohol stove for cooking, which I would suggest since those will cook a pot of coffee pretty quickly
Posted by: Kindltot

I have a couple of alcohol camp stoves made from repurposed beer cans.

Not a pot maybe, but a cup at a time certainly.

Posted by: Miklos the Izod Prepper at November 24, 2025 11:35 PM (N7hqt)

244 I volunteered with a local foodbank for years. It wore me out. A relative few were poor because of current circumstances. Most were there because of generational poverty or poor life choices. So many people are just broken and cannot be helped.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
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While we tend to be cynical about welfare bums, I have learned from working with a local charity that there are those whom fate has simply crushed.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 24, 2025 11:35 PM (XeU6L)

245 Do you burn Bonsai trees in the mini-stoves?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 24, 2025 11:36 PM (pkeXY)

246 Hearth is pronounced just like hearse. Amirite?
Posted by: RickZ

Hith and Herth

Posted by: Miklos with affected lisp at November 24, 2025 11:36 PM (N7hqt)

247 But they kept calling a hearth a "herth" instead of saying "harth."
Posted by: Soothsayer

Well, it's herth, not hith.

Posted by: mikethki at November 24, 2025 11:37 PM (nhCoE)

248 Hordemind is spooky.

Posted by: mikeski at November 24, 2025 11:37 PM (nhCoE)

249 Hestia was the Olympic goddess of the hirth.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 24, 2025 11:37 PM (dyewR)

250
You say herth?

We say harth.

Like heart, but with a lisp.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 11:38 PM (z2RVL)

251 Hearth is pronounced just like hearse. Amirite?
Posted by: RickZ at November 24, 2025 11:34 PM (gKDq2)

I have never heard other than "harth", rhymes with Vader's title.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2025 11:38 PM (npFr7)

252 Do you burn Bonsai trees in the mini-stoves?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Probably.

But must light them with small birthday candles.

Posted by: Proportional Miklos at November 24, 2025 11:38 PM (N7hqt)

253 Do you even have snow in texas?
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Years ago, on a busiess trip to Texas, we were in Houston for two weeks. On Saturday morning, it started snowing. We were staying in a Holiday Inn looking over the Interstate. The exit was sloped up and cars would be coming off the highway to a stop sign. The cars would be sliding through the stop and then one got hit and stopped sideways and that started a pileup.

Posted by: clarence at November 24, 2025 11:38 PM (GE9Fw)

254 Hordemind is spooky.
Posted by: mikeski at November 24, 2025 11:37 PM (nhCoE)

It is one of the charms of this joint.

Posted by: RickZ at November 24, 2025 11:38 PM (gKDq2)

255 197 moar tiny stoves...
Here's a couple of dummies who installed a tiny stove inside their Airstream:
https://is.gd/24Oa07
Posted by: Soothsayer
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The vibes is right.
What's not right is that one can no longer purchase a furnace for the travel trailer that does not require a fan or fans that are usually 12v.

Furnace in my old travel trailer was convection circulation. No fan, no electricity required. Have no idea why they were discontinued.


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 11:38 PM (+Omlu)

256 210 Posted by: Count de Monet at November 24, 2025 11:20 PM (wVcYX)

She would be better served making a radiant candle or a rocket stove with blower....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfQ3e1is4F4

Posted by: sven at November 24, 2025 11:38 PM (MUJd1)

257 Here's a couple of dummies who installed a tiny stove inside their Airstream:

https://is.gd/24Oa07
Posted by: Soothsayer

Meghan is cute.

But wow, the level of hipster in 20 seconds of that video has me jonesing for avocado toast.

Posted by: mikeski at November 24, 2025 11:39 PM (nhCoE)

258 251 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2025 11:38 PM (npFr7)

Harth like Darth not hearth like Earth....

Ohio baby....open hearth country

Posted by: sven at November 24, 2025 11:39 PM (MUJd1)

259 Here's a couple of dummies who installed a tiny stove inside their Airstream:
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There is a saying about "more money than sense"


An Airstream ain't cheap.

Posted by: Miklos so observes at November 24, 2025 11:42 PM (N7hqt)

260 You know, somebody ought to manufacture and sell tiny coal stoves for RV's cabins, and trailers. Fit them with an automatic stoker, and a 12 volt computer fan for for forced-air combustion. Rig them to burn pea-size coal. You could sell the coal in those square 5-gallon carboys.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2025 11:42 PM (npFr7)

261 While we tend to be cynical about welfare bums, I have learned from working with a local charity that there are those whom fate has simply crushed.

Posted by: Mike Hammer

___

It is sad. It's easy to be angry at the Tiktok rage bait. Up close, when you get to know the people, it just makes you so sad. I got to a point I just couldn't volunteer anymore.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 11:42 PM (ys6FW)

262 Hearth is pronounced just like hearse. Amirite?
Posted by: RickZ at November 24, 2025 11:34 PM (gKDq2)

Yeah. Her-th.

But har-th sounds more old timey.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 11:43 PM (zZu0s)

263
If you have a gas or oil furnace, the best way to get heat is power your furnace directly using a small generator.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 11:43 PM (z2RVL)

264 259 Posted by: Miklos so observes at November 24, 2025 11:42 PM (N7hqt)

Gramps and Gran had a nice airstream we used to go back and forth to Alberta....was a wonderful trailer...

Posted by: sven at November 24, 2025 11:44 PM (MUJd1)

265 260 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2025 11:42 PM (npFr7)

Eh maybe, I think this guy is either a genius or a nut.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDTyOAOxfjw

Posted by: sven at November 24, 2025 11:45 PM (MUJd1)

266 There was the Snowpocalypse of 2021, when the whole state froze. We are preppers so managed. It wasn't a fun time for people.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 11:35 PM (ys6FW)

We live in the middle of town, and our power and water was off for 7 days straight through that! Fortunately we had a couple of nat gas room heaters, a gas fireplace and a gas stove so with some jugs of water we could keep the place warm and stay there even without other utilities.

I remember laughing at some young neighbors fretting about how their refrigerator was off, their food was gonna spoil. Hello, it’s 25 degrees outside with a foot of ice and snow on the ground, you can’t figure out how to keep your food cold?

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 24, 2025 11:45 PM (ngbZu)

267
I don't know what a wood stove costs to buy & install, but little inverter generators are, like, $300, right now.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 11:45 PM (z2RVL)

268 Not a pot maybe, but a cup at a time certainly.
Posted by: Miklos the Izod Prepper at November 24, 2025 11:35 PM (N7hqt)

Those Swedish army stoves that run on alcohol are pretty neat for a pot of coffee, I used to use them making coffee in the back yard, when I wasn't using one of the Svea 123 gasoline stoves, or the propane stove. The propane single burner stove flames up a saucepan of coffee in good time, it is too big for the Moka pot.
I haven't had the nerve to run the Aida kerosene pressure stove since I got it at a flea market and it really does look like a brass landmine.

I have a thing about multifuel, though I haven't gotten into butane.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 11:46 PM (rbvCR)

269 If you have a gas or oil furnace, the best way to get heat is power your furnace directly using a small generator.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 11:43 PM (z2RVL)

My hydronic heating system here at Peon Manor burns gas, and its only electric consumption is a few watts for the thermostat and burner valve, and about 60 watts for the circulating pump.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2025 11:46 PM (npFr7)

270 Here's a couple of dummies who installed a tiny stove inside their Airstream:
\\

There is a saying about "more money than sense"

An Airstream ain't cheap.
Posted by: Miklos so observes at November 24, 2025 11:42 PM (N7hqt)

They are saving on operating costs by parking it in the lee of someone's big home. Just an upscale version of Cousin Eddie and his tenement on wheels RV.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 24, 2025 11:47 PM (wVcYX)

271
My hydronic heating system here at Peon Manor burns gas, and its only electric consumption is a few watts for the thermostat and burner valve, and about 60 watts for the circulating pump.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Right. And without power, you got nothing.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 11:48 PM (z2RVL)

272 I see a slice of bread and it's like WTF? It's bread.

Your marketing, your mindset, - it frightens me.

I'll be over here, polishing and reloading my revolver.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at November 24, 2025 11:48 PM (WFC1M)

273 I remember laughing at some young neighbors fretting about how their refrigerator was off, their food was gonna spoil. Hello, it’s 25 degrees outside with a foot of ice and snow on the ground, you can’t figure out how to keep your food cold?

Posted by: Tom Servo
___

That week truly made me aware that some people don't have common sense to survive.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 11:49 PM (ys6FW)

274 I have a thing about multifuel, though I haven't gotten into butane.
Posted by: Kindltot

HUH

OW

Posted by: Miklos notes that James Brown was originally billed as "Butane James and the Famous Flames" at November 24, 2025 11:49 PM (N7hqt)

275 Since 3AM here thunderbolt and lightening.

Very, very frightening me!

Start the day.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 24, 2025 11:50 PM (UzN9/)

276 Right. And without power, you got nothing.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 11:48 PM (z2RVL)

I have 4 functional generators, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2025 11:50 PM (npFr7)

277 273 Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 11:49 PM (ys6FW)

Western civ is dying because our lives are too easy, people cannot think their way out of a paper bag so to speak if they are below 30 unless they were raised to do so.

Take the sven energy challenge and as sub 30 somethings where energy or groceries come from.

Posted by: sven at November 24, 2025 11:51 PM (MUJd1)

278
Hello, it’s 25 degrees outside with a foot of ice and snow on the ground, you can’t figure out how to keep your food cold?

Posted by: Tom Servo

Remember that scene in JAWS?

Quint looked at Hooper and said, "Cage goes in the water? You go in the water?....

shark's in the water."

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 11:51 PM (z2RVL)

279
You put food outside?

You go outside to get food?

Animal's outside.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 11:52 PM (z2RVL)

280 I have 4 functional generators, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I...I have an alternator...you looked at it...once

Posted by: the Wretched Panhard at November 24, 2025 11:53 PM (N7hqt)

281 And without power, you got nothing.
Posted by: Soothsayer
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That's why I want my little convection furnace.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 11:53 PM (+Omlu)

282 Eh maybe, I think this guy is either a genius or a nut.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDTyOAOxfjw
Posted by: sven at November 24, 2025 11:45 PM (MUJd1)

I'll go with "self-deluded". That coffee-warmer candle is what, maybe one ounce of paraffin wax? Which is petroleum. And it might burn 4 hours. The BTU per hour will be minuscule.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2025 11:53 PM (npFr7)

283 I...I have an alternator...you looked at it...once
Posted by: the Wretched Panhard at November 24, 2025 11:53 PM (N7hqt)

Not an alternator, a generator.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2025 11:54 PM (npFr7)

284 This is going to be hard to describe, but I made a coffee water heater using a mini Radio Shack butane torch. This:
https://shorturl.at/mIEJ8

The torch slips onto a bracket, and blows into a 1/2" copper tube, which is sharpened at the other end. The tube has copper crosspieces soldered to collect heat. The sharpened end , with a few twists, cuts a nice water-tight hole through both sides of a 10 oz. styrofoam cup. Boils 10 oz. of water in about 5-10 minutes. Instant coffee in a second cup finishes the job.

Have I mentioned that I travel *really* light while motorcyle campng? The torch, tube, and small zip lock bag of coffee, all fit in the cup.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 24, 2025 11:55 PM (XeU6L)

285 Not an alternator, a generator.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

YOU REMEMBER!!!!

Posted by: the Wretched Panhard at November 24, 2025 11:56 PM (N7hqt)

286
And that's Another way to get Power in an Emergency:

Use your Car's Alternator.

All you need is an Inverter.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 11:56 PM (z2RVL)

287 In MeghanandMatt's tiny wood stove in the Airstream video, I didn't catch any reference to fire extinguishers, tiny sand buckets, tiny water buckets, tiny fire blankets, or carbon monoxide sensors/alarms.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 24, 2025 11:57 PM (wVcYX)

288 Posted by: sven at November 24, 2025 11:51 PM (MUJd1)

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It is sad. I know people who can't cook and think that's funny. I think they are the first to go if TSHTF.



Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 11:57 PM (ys6FW)

289 After all I have read in the last week, I am pretty sure Trump became a Republican the moment he realized what the Dems and Epstein were doing.

All of the pictures of Trump with Epstein that the left are claiming is proof that they were BFFs were taken at DNC fundraisers, back when Trump was one of the biggest DNC donors. Trump hosted a lot of DNC fundraisers at his properties.

Something happened around 2012-14 and all of the sudden Trump is starting to cut ties with the dems

Trump said back around 2015 "you guys need to look into this Epstein guy". He was suggesting this to the FBI and the media.

Recently released emails prove that dems colluded with Epstein to take Trump down and failed. They also prove that Epstein absolutely hated Trump.

Deep state dems arrest Epstein to try and take some of the heat off and they decided ultimatley to kill Epstein to shut him up.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at November 24, 2025 11:58 PM (kDHiw)

290 282 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2025 11:53 PM (npFr7)

His veggie oil lamp works, I have used a similar getup in Montana.... I think if/when I build the cabin I intend to die in it will have a nice in ground rocket stove mason heat sing under the wood with the place built around the exhaust....we'll do it Deadwood style.

Posted by: sven at November 24, 2025 11:58 PM (MUJd1)

291 Use your Car's Alternator.

All you need is an Inverter.
Posted by: Soothsayer

I read that as "cat's alternator"

Sorry

Posted by: Miklos thinks a dog will warm bed nore than 11 cats at November 24, 2025 11:59 PM (N7hqt)

292 287 Posted by: Count de Monet at November 24, 2025 11:57 PM (wVcYX)

Fire, like Muzzies, Furries, and crimmigrants are always safe and we should be welcoming....

//Cute Asian Looking Gal near an Airstream Bonfire

Posted by: sven at November 24, 2025 11:59 PM (MUJd1)

293
Sure, use Toonce's alternator.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 11:59 PM (z2RVL)

294 Posted by: Miklos notes that James Brown was originally billed as "Butane James and the Famous Flames" at November 24, 2025 11:49 PM (N7hqt)

This makes me smile. +1

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 25, 2025 12:00 AM (wVcYX)

295 289 Posted by: Lemmiwinks at November 24, 2025 11:58 PM (kDHiw)

Trump was clean, and how do I know he was clean?

There is no way Hillary, and Joe AND Kamala would not have had it leaked ala Joe the Plumber by helpful rogue agents from Cincy if there was a there there.

Posted by: sven at November 25, 2025 12:01 AM (MUJd1)

296
That week truly made me aware that some people don't have common sense to survive.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
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In the aftermath of The Storm here, I figured that half the people in my neighbood would have been dead in three weeks, if left to their own resources.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 25, 2025 12:01 AM (XeU6L)

297 When Hurricane Helene hit, my AO was without power for about two weeks, depending where you lived. I had generators, and a land-line phone (never went out) so I was fine, but if I had not gotten a refuel (propane) about halfway through that time, I would have been SOL. If I hadn’t had the land-line phone, I wouldn’t have been able to order the refill: the cell phone towers were out! Multiple backups is a thing.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 25, 2025 12:01 AM (APZWP)

298 @289

>>Deep state dems arrest Epstein to try and take some of the heat off and they decided ultimatley to kill Epstein to shut him up.


There are a lot of wild and fascinating data points from being hired by Bill Barr's dad to being murdered in a prison run by Bill Barr to the Epstein Saga, Hollywood could easily do a Spotlight style movie on Epstein.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 25, 2025 12:01 AM (XV/Pl)

299 284 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 24, 2025 11:55 PM (XeU6L)

Yes that is neo Hobo tech from the GD.....

I am very serious, I have been experimenting hard with off-grid applications up to and including Jackerys, and AGM solar batteries and passive water filtration...

Posted by: sven at November 25, 2025 12:05 AM (MUJd1)

300 I remember laughing at some young neighbors fretting about how their refrigerator was off, their food was gonna spoil. Hello, it’s 25 degrees outside with a foot of ice and snow on the ground, you can’t figure out how to keep your food cold?

Posted by: Tom Servo
___

That week truly made me aware that some people don't have common sense to survive.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 11:49 PM (ys6FW)

In college, before my roomie and I got a fridge at Christmas, once November hit, we'd hand six-pack cans of beer in mesh laundry bags out our 4th story window. In the mountains? In the winter? Instant cold beer.

Some people are born dumb and some people work really, really hard at being dumb.

Posted by: RickZ at November 25, 2025 12:05 AM (gKDq2)

301 In the aftermath of The Storm here, I figured that half the people in my neighbood would have been dead in three weeks, if left to their own resources.

Posted by: Mike Hammer

--
I encourage people to keep some emergency food laid by just in case. Of course that doesn't help if you don't have a plan for water or fuel. My idea is a failure to plan is a plan to fail
I forget who made the quote famous

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 25, 2025 12:07 AM (ys6FW)

302 Multiple backups is a thing.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

I believe in multiple extra redundant spare supplemental additional extra spare redundant capacity.

Posted by: Miklos to the x power at November 25, 2025 12:07 AM (N7hqt)

303 In college, before my roomie and I got a fridge at Christmas, once November hit, we'd hand six-pack cans of beer in mesh laundry bags out our 4th story window. In the mountains? In the winter? Instant cold beer.

Some people are born dumb and some people work really, really hard at being dumb.
Posted by: RickZ at November 25, 2025 12:05 AM (gKDq2)


(climbs to fifth floor with fishing line and treble hook)

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 12:08 AM (npFr7)

304 When Hurricane Helene hit, my AO was without power for about two weeks, depending where you lived.
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No water, power, cell, telephone. One full month. No groceries, or gasoline for a couple of weeks. It was an interesting experience. The entire county pitch-black. Many roads impassable.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 25, 2025 12:08 AM (XeU6L)

305 My #300: hand s/b hang.

Stubby fingers. Never could be a pianist.

Posted by: RickZ at November 25, 2025 12:08 AM (gKDq2)

306 302 Posted by: Miklos to the x power at November 25, 2025 12:07 AM (N7hqt)

"Be prepared"....like a combination of Batman and the Professor from Gilligan's Island.

Posted by: sven at November 25, 2025 12:09 AM (MUJd1)

307 (climbs to fifth floor with fishing line and treble hook)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 12:08 AM (npFr7)

Luckily, to foil your rather excellent plan, the 4th floor was the top floor.

Posted by: RickZ at November 25, 2025 12:10 AM (gKDq2)

308 In college, before my roomie and I got a fridge at Christmas, once November hit, we'd hand six-pack cans of beer in mesh laundry bags out our 4th story window. In the mountains? In the winter? Instant cold beer.

Some people are born dumb and some people work really, really hard at being dumb.
Posted by: RickZ

Every room at the dorms where I lived in Hungary had plastic bags dangling outside each and every window.

In Winter, the Great Outdoors is one giant walk-in freezer.

Which is also why pig killing is done when it is reliably cold.

Posted by: Miklosian memories at November 25, 2025 12:12 AM (N7hqt)

309 304 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 25, 2025 12:08 AM (XeU6L)

Hurricane Laura rocked the US 171 corridor pretty well knocked out power for a month, and water for two weeks.

Folks covered down as best they could and I used an inverter and jump box to safe harbor our phones when they came back up after 10 days.

We ran to Shreveport every other day to get fuel for locals for their gennies.

Part of why I now have 400 watts of 12v solar and 1600 amp hours of battery to charge.

Posted by: sven at November 25, 2025 12:12 AM (MUJd1)

310 307 (climbs to fifth floor with fishing line and treble hook)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 12:08 AM (npFr7)

Luckily, to foil your rather excellent plan, the 4th floor was the top floor.

Posted by: RickZ at November 25, 2025 12:10 AM

Beer party on the roof!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 25, 2025 12:13 AM (HlyYF)

311 Off-grid?

1. co-generation. Get a Diesel genset, say 10-25 kW. Put a suitable radiator inside your house, and run insulated hoses to the Diesel engine. Let the waste heat rejected by the engine keep your house warm.

2. Outdoor wood-burning boiler, to supply hot water to radiators inside house. Fire safety, and no smoke inside house.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 12:13 AM (npFr7)

312 No water, power, cell, telephone. One full month. No groceries, or gasoline for a couple of weeks. It was an interesting experience. The entire county pitch-black. Many roads impassable.

Posted by: Mike Hammer
----

How are things now, a year later? Mostly back to normal? Or still working on it?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 25, 2025 12:13 AM (ys6FW)

313 Wandered off to watch Rick Beato's latest. He dissects the Beatles' You Won't See Me. I appreciate his analysis, and also have to laugh at the crazy grin he gets when listening to the Beatles.

This is one of his long live-feed videos. I hammer on the 5-sec jump button at the start until he gets on-topic, and also through the promos he does for his courses. Easier than watching the whole 37 minutes.

Beato:
https://youtu.be/i-9RR_Sugcg

Beatles:
https://youtu.be/OsjTO0yZQjk

Posted by: mindful webworker - time after time you refuse to even listen at November 25, 2025 12:14 AM (LaTF/)

314 Stubby fingers. Never could be a pianist.
Posted by: RickZ

*major accident*

Doc...just tell me...am I gonna live?

Doc-Yes, you'll be fine after recovery

BUT DOC-will I be able to play the piano?

Doc-yes. of course

THANKS DOC

Posted by: Miklos had never played the piano at November 25, 2025 12:17 AM (N7hqt)

315 311 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 12:13 AM (npFr7)

Absolutely if/when I give up my work on the contract here and go north somewhere I fully intend to use dedicated batteries with layered generation to power the house/bungalow.

The wife and I may buy one last traditional home to have the lad kick us out of if he ever marries and procreates.

I want to live simple on my way out.

Posted by: sven at November 25, 2025 12:18 AM (MUJd1)

316 Outdoor wood-burning boiler, to supply hot water to radiators inside house. Fire safety, and no smoke inside house.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Not sure about today, but 20 years ago here in SC you could order, or go and pick up a load of coal.

More energy dense than wood, doesn't rot, needs no special storage....

Posted by: carbon-based life form Miklos at November 25, 2025 12:20 AM (N7hqt)

317 Just caught up with comments and I am headed to bed, it has been a tiring day. If I don't see some of you, have a very Happy Thanksgiving.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 25, 2025 12:22 AM (0nHVk)

318 Happy Thanksgiving, Debby.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 25, 2025 12:23 AM (ys6FW)

319 'Night, Debby. Happy Thanksgiving to you as well!

Posted by: JQ at November 25, 2025 12:23 AM (rdVOm)

320 -----
It is sad. I know people who can't cook and think that's funny. I think they are the first to go if TSHTF.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
---

Ha. You can't cook without fresh meat and veggies.
I HAS CANS!

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 25, 2025 12:24 AM (+Omlu)

321 Eric ericsson said that the sellout of Ukraine to putin's deal was pushed by witkoff and j.d. vance because they think America is in decline! They think putin should control europe and china should control asia and africa. All right magas do you think America is in decline?

Posted by: raimondo at November 25, 2025 12:25 AM (eTYd7)

322 Not sure about today, but 20 years ago here in SC you could order, or go and pick up a load of coal.

More energy dense than wood, doesn't rot, needs no special storage....
Posted by: carbon-based life form Miklos at November 25, 2025 12:20 AM (N7hqt)

I think I can buy it right from the mines here. Have not checked lately. It was 47 dollars a ton in 2015.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 12:26 AM (npFr7)

323 Just caught up with comments and I am headed to bed, it has been a tiring day. If I don't see some of you, have a very Happy Thanksgiving.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at November 25, 2025 12:22 AM (0nHVk)

Same to you, Debby!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 12:27 AM (npFr7)

324 321 Posted by: raimondo at November 25, 2025 12:25 AM (eTYd7)

I think my great great grandchildren do not need to be bankrupted to pay debts spreading glee gang bullshit and being involved in every war everytime everywhere...

send your fucking chiildren Retardo my family has bled enough for the Durkas.

Posted by: sven at November 25, 2025 12:27 AM (MUJd1)

325 Night Debby

Posted by: sven at November 25, 2025 12:28 AM (MUJd1)

326 Ha. You can't cook without fresh meat and veggies.
I HAS CANS!

Posted by: Braenyard

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You are better off than so many. Canned food will last a while past the date on the can.
I've been making experimental Spam meals. Unlike the Monty Python guys, I like spam

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 25, 2025 12:29 AM (ys6FW)

327 I think I can buy it right from the mines here. Have not checked lately. It was 47 dollars a ton in 2015.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 12:26 AM (npFr7)

...

Isn't that a LOT cheaper than fuel oil?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 25, 2025 12:30 AM (bss/y)

328 builditsolar.com
Plenty of projects for the home builder.

Posted by: clarence at November 25, 2025 12:31 AM (GE9Fw)

329 I've been making experimental Spam meals. Unlike the Monty Python guys, I like spam
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

The Hawaiian love of Spam may explain Mazie Hirono.

In part

Posted by: Miklos is Spam-friendly, but as part of a bourbon-and-grits balanced diet at November 25, 2025 12:33 AM (N7hqt)

330 I certainly don't keep a surplus of Spam on hand because I think happy days are here again.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 25, 2025 12:33 AM (ys6FW)

331 328 Posted by: clarence at November 25, 2025 12:31 AM (GE9Fw)

Good tips, I am doing some serious soul searching on where I am going to get land, and what solution I will use for the physical plant....

I am studying everything from Quonset huts to air shaped foam construction, and I will guide my passive thermal solutions to the material and region.

Posted by: sven at November 25, 2025 12:34 AM (MUJd1)

332 324 321 Posted by: raimondo at November 25, 2025 12:25 AM (eTYd7)

I think my great great grandchildren do not need to be bankrupted to pay debts spreading glee gang bullshit and being involved in every war everytime everywhere...

send your fucking chiildren Retardo my family has bled enough for the Durkas.
Posted by: sven at November 25, 2025 12:27 AM (MUJd1)

The Declaration of Independence was based on the idea that the people of a country should not only decide their own destiny, but be held accountable for it.

The arrogance of the US government since WW2 has been a huge negative to the world fixing problems... why? You cannot fix someone else, they have to fix themselves.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 12:35 AM (mP0Kj)

333 On energy? I've got $50K worth of solar and battery on my house... yet somehow PGE tells me I am not energy efficient...

Kinda makes ya go... hmmmm.... maybe solar don't work at night or when it's cloudy, like today.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 12:38 AM (mP0Kj)

334 >> Hestia was the Olympic goddess of the hirth.

That reminds me. They recently, modelling the formation of the Moon, came up with a new type of astronomical object they dubbed a "synestia", named after "syn" + "Hestia".

A synestia is sort of disc-shaped blob, sort of shaped like a red-blood cell, thinner in the middle, of rotating vaporized and condensing rock. It has too much angular momentum to condense into a spinning spherical planet. The inner region does form a planet, while the outer region coalesces into a big Moon.

And yep, there is a band named "Synestia".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 25, 2025 12:38 AM (w6EFb)

335 Welp. Looks like the last remaining coal mine that sells to the public is (was?) the Dodds Coal Mine in Ryley, AB, which is about 3 hours north of me. With commie faggot Trudeau's carbon tax, it's now close to 200 dollars a ton.

If I were using coal for heat, I might have to start guerilla mining. The shit outcrops all along the badlands of the Red Deer river. Guy could float down the river on a rubber raft, haul ashore in some secluded spot, trek up the bank to a coal seam, mine a few hundred pounds, put it in sacks, and drag it down to the raft. Float downstream to the next boat ramp, and have a helper pick me up.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 12:39 AM (npFr7)

336 The Hawaiian love of Spam may explain Mazie Hirono.

In part

Posted by: Miklos is Spam-friendly, but as part of a bourbon-and-grits balanced diet

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I'm not a sex-addled, syphilis-brained Senator, but do love Spam.
Spam breakfast tacos are my favorite.
Also Spam and egg with rice.

Slicing the Spam thin into matchstick pieces is the way. They fey u l and get crispy.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 25, 2025 12:40 AM (ys6FW)

337 I certainly don't keep a surplus of Spam on hand because I think happy days are here again.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

So

You do not live a Humid Subtropical Zone

Power goes out here

Reliably but unpredictably

Posted by: Miklos pops his Izod polo shirt collar while Prepping at November 25, 2025 12:41 AM (N7hqt)

338 Fry up and get crispy.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 25, 2025 12:41 AM (ys6FW)

339 sven, the owner of the site lives (lived?) here in Montana. He did a lot the projects on the site with his own house.

Posted by: clarence at November 25, 2025 12:42 AM (GE9Fw)

340 339 Posted by: clarence at November 25, 2025 12:42 AM (GE9Fw)

If the wife takes a job in Butte we will be back, probably settle in Whitehall or Walkerville.

Posted by: sven at November 25, 2025 12:43 AM (MUJd1)

341 They fey u l and get crispy.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary


It is the Knowledge of the the spoken of, but never spoken about, mysterious "fey u l " that I seek

Posted by: Miklos attempts to meditate at November 25, 2025 12:44 AM (N7hqt)

342 Good tips, I am doing some serious soul searching on where I am going to get land, and what solution I will use for the physical plant....

I am studying everything from Quonset huts to air shaped foam construction, and I will guide my passive thermal solutions to the material and region.
Posted by: sven at November 25, 2025 12:34 AM (MUJd1)

If I were building new, I would search for a south-facing hillside, dig into it, build a poured-concrete house, with triple-glazed glass south wall under an overhang, and backfill and sod over it. Passive solar ought to provide most of the heat. Out door wood burner, with radiators in a few key rooms.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 12:44 AM (npFr7)

343 Let me know when/if you come this way. I live in Butte.

Posted by: clarence at November 25, 2025 12:45 AM (GE9Fw)

344 You do not live a Humid Subtropical Zone

Power goes out here

Reliably but unpredictably

Posted by: Miklos pops his Izod polo shirt collar while Prepping

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I fry it on the driveway with the eggs in TX summer. Isn't that what people do?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 25, 2025 12:45 AM (ys6FW)

345 I am studying everything from Quonset huts to air shaped foam construction, and I will guide my passive thermal solutions to the material and region.
Posted by: sven

I am a fan of aircrete

Posted by: Miklos sees options at November 25, 2025 12:46 AM (N7hqt)

346 I am sure this article has touched all the internet people,
its really really fastidious paragraph on building up new
blog.

Posted by: Netflix at November 25, 2025 12:47 AM (sIo+Z)

347 If the wife takes a job in Butte we will be back, probably settle in Whitehall or Walkerville.
Posted by: sven at November 25, 2025 12:43 AM (MUJd1)

Whitehall is a nice town. So is Boulder. And I think some of the homes along the Boulder River south of the town get geothermal heat from the aquifer that feeds Boulder Hot Springs. Might want to check that out.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 12:47 AM (npFr7)

348 It is the Knowledge of the the spoken of, but never spoken about, mysterious "fey u l " that I seek

Posted by: Miklos attempts to meditate at November 25, 2025 12:44 AM (N7hqt)

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$20 same as in town.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 25, 2025 12:48 AM (ys6FW)

349 November 25, 2025 12:47 AM (sIo+Z)

Been a while since a spammer made it past the traps Pixy and the hamsters laid out.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 25, 2025 12:49 AM (8QVSJ)

350 I fry it on the driveway with the eggs in TX summer. Isn't that what people do?
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

That is why I had the old tin roof replaced with cast iron skillets I bought at flea markets and yard sales.

Now I need a cheap second hand cherry picker so I can get up there and cook

Posted by: Miklos sees up and downsides at November 25, 2025 12:50 AM (N7hqt)

351 I am a fan of aircrete
Posted by: Miklos sees options at November 25, 2025 12:46 AM (N7hqt)

I watched a youtube video a while back of a guy making air-entrained concrete by mixing whipped dish-washing detergent foam into a slurry of Portland cement, chopped fiberglass, and a little Plaster of Paris. Resulting blocks can be drilled, sawn, and will float on water.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 12:51 AM (npFr7)

352 Slicing the Spam thin into matchstick pieces is the way. They fey u l and get crispy.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 25, 2025 12:40 AM (ys6FW)

cubed fine and mixed into macaroni and cheese.

Corned beef is good if fried slightly and mashed into crumbles, and add to egg flour soup -- or any soup, really.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 12:51 AM (rbvCR)

353 $20 same as in town.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

Deal

Posted by: Miklos notes that $ also denominates the Mexican peso, so about a buck ten at November 25, 2025 12:52 AM (N7hqt)

354 I bought some stewing beef, taters, and a turnip today. Going to build a stew in the crock pot tomorrow morning.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 12:53 AM (npFr7)

355 I watched a youtube video a while back of a guy making air-entrained concrete by mixing whipped dish-washing detergent foam into a slurry of Portland cement, chopped fiberglass, and a little Plaster of Paris. Resulting blocks can be drilled, sawn, and will float on water.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 12:51 AM (npFr7)

Is this the guy who is making panels of foam-crete? I am thinking one guy who was grinding up styrofoam into tiny chunks to add to it as well

Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 12:54 AM (rbvCR)

356 How are things now, a year later? Mostly back to normal? Or still working on it?
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
---------

All services restored as of a year ago. Many destroyed homes/businesses, some bridges still out. All critical infrastructure restored (especially water). My partcular concern, which I have harped on here, remains the Veterans Restoration Quarters, where we are still feeding Vets, some almost elderly, in a tent. We have temporary shelter, but it is going to take about 2 years, and $2 million to restablish our facility.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 25, 2025 12:54 AM (XeU6L)

357 And I think some of the homes along the Boulder River south of the town get geothermal heat from the aquifer that feeds Boulder Hot Springs. Might want to check that out.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 12:47 AM (npFr7)

Boise has a residential district which uses geothermal water for heating. There's only a limited quantity available, so its use is tightly regulated. No hooking up a new house to it without a permit, and I'm sure a permit would be hard to get.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 25, 2025 12:56 AM (8QVSJ)

358 Deal

Posted by: Miklos notes that $ also denominates the Mexican peso, so about a buck ten

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Slice the Spam thin, so it gets crispy and delicious. I like making it into matchsticks. For my tacos and such.it is delicious. That is all.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 25, 2025 12:58 AM (ys6FW)

359 Is this the guy who is making panels of foam-crete? I am thinking one guy who was grinding up styrofoam into tiny chunks to add to it as well
Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 12:54 AM (rbvCR)

I don't know. Guy sounded kind of ethnic, maybe Pakistani. Lots of bloviation about how this is "new magic". There's a lot of shit like that on youtube.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 01:00 AM (npFr7)

360 Slicing the Spam thin into matchstick pieces is the way. They fey u l and get crispy.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 25, 2025 12:40 AM (ys6FW)

Mom made a fast meal out of sliced SPAM and a quickie B-B-Q sauce of white vinegar and brown sugar. She'd cook itover medium ow heat, turning the pieces around, until the liquid became a syrup. Had that often as a kid. On ocassion, I will make my version of it, adding dried Thai bird chilis for heat.

Posted by: RickZ at November 25, 2025 01:00 AM (gKDq2)

361 cubed fine and mixed into macaroni and cheese.



Cube it fine
Lady of mine

I put the macaroni
In yo cheese

Posted by: ONT karaoke at November 25, 2025 01:01 AM (N7hqt)

362 All services restored as of a year ago. Many destroyed homes/businesses, some bridges still out. All critical infrastructure restored (especially water). My partcular concern, which I have harped on here, remains the Veterans Restoration Quarters, where we are still feeding Vets, some almost elderly, in a tent. We have temporary shelter, but it is going to take about 2 years, and $2 million to restablish our facility.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.

---
It was sad to see the damage done to NC mountains. I am glad there is recovery. I'm sorry the vets are still eating out of a tent.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 25, 2025 01:04 AM (ys6FW)

363 Mom made a fast meal out of sliced SPAM and a quickie B-B-Q sauce of white vinegar and brown sugar. She'd cook itover medium ow heat, turning the pieces around, until the liquid became a syrup. Had that often as a kid. On ocassion, I will make my version of it, adding dried Thai bird chilis for heat.
Posted by: RickZ

And Kaboom

Probably added some stale Kaboom

Posted by: Miklos still eat like de po folks too at November 25, 2025 01:04 AM (N7hqt)

364 Corned beef is good if fried slightly and mashed into crumbles, and add to egg flour soup -- or any soup, really.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 25, 2025 12:51 AM (rbvCR)

With that corned beef, I pan fry diced potatoes. Once almost done, I add diced red pepper. Once that softens a bit, I add a diced onion; by now the potatoes are done. I stir that in then add the corned beef, breaking it up a bit. I let it sit for a minute or two before stirring to completely warm the corned beef through. Serve a helping topped with your favorite egg preparation.

Posted by: RickZ at November 25, 2025 01:05 AM (gKDq2)

365 We have temporary shelter, but it is going to take about 2 years, and $2 million to restablish our facility.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.

You mentioned a site for donations a while back

Posted by: Miklos feels Thankful at November 25, 2025 01:06 AM (N7hqt)

366 With that corned beef, I pan fry diced potatoes. Once almost done, I add diced red pepper. Once that softens a bit, I add a diced onion; by now the potatoes are done. I stir that in then add the corned beef, breaking it up a bit. I let it sit for a minute or two before stirring to completely warm the corned beef through. Serve a helping topped with your favorite egg preparation.
Posted by: RickZ

Umm

Do what?

Posted by: Any and all Waffle House Hash Brown master at November 25, 2025 01:08 AM (N7hqt)

367 ONT confession: I was old before knowing there is corned beef not from a can.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 25, 2025 01:09 AM (ys6FW)

368 ONT confession: I was old before knowing there is corned beef not from a can.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

Should I tell her about corn likker?

Posted by: Moonshiner Miklos at November 25, 2025 01:12 AM (N7hqt)

369 >>>If I were building new, I would search for a south-facing hillside, dig into it, build a poured-concrete house, with triple-glazed glass south wall under an overhang, and backfill and sod over it. Passive solar ought to provide most of the heat. Out door wood burner, with radiators in a few key rooms.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
--

Whole Earth Catalog called them berm houses. Purchased plans for them and barn houses and ranch layouts through the catalog from Canada.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 25, 2025 01:14 AM (+Omlu)

370 We have temporary shelter, but it is going to take about 2 years, and $2 million to restablish our facility.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 25, 2025 12:54 AM (XeU6L)

Would some oilfield camp skid shacks work as a dining hall? Some of those camp diners can feed 40 to 50 people no problem. And the skid shacks can be gussied up to look pretty respectable, like modular housing.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 01:14 AM (npFr7)

371 Should I tell her about corn likker?

Posted by: Moonshiner Miklos

----
Just don't take me on a snipe hunt.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 25, 2025 01:15 AM (ys6FW)

372 Whole Earth Catalog called them berm houses. Purchased plans for them and barn houses and ranch layouts through the catalog from Canada.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 25, 2025 01:14 AM (+Omlu)

I think the general term for them is "earth-sheltered houses". Get well into the ground, and the year-round temperature is about 50 F, so your heat loss to the surroundings is small.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 01:17 AM (npFr7)

373 Just don't take me on a snipe hunt.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

Nope

You gotta pay taxes on that

Got Wesley Snipe put in jail

Posted by: cautionary Miklos at November 25, 2025 01:18 AM (N7hqt)

374 Goodnight, Horde. Off to dream up more spam recipes.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 25, 2025 01:22 AM (ys6FW)

375 Chilly here tonight-- right at freezing. Cat has decided to sleep indoors, and I don't blame him!

Posted by: JQ at November 25, 2025 01:23 AM (rdVOm)

376 'Night, Mary!

Posted by: JQ at November 25, 2025 01:24 AM (rdVOm)

377 Chilly here tonight-- right at freezing. Cat has decided to sleep indoors, and I don't blame him!
Posted by: JQ

*offers non-alcoholic catnip infused Jello shot*

Posted by: Genial late Nite bartender Miklos at November 25, 2025 01:25 AM (N7hqt)

378 Yep. Cold here tonight, down into the 'teens. I will probably armor up and run the snowblower tomorrow. Right now, the rack beckons. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 25, 2025 01:26 AM (npFr7)

379 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at November 25, 2025 01:26 AM (SRRAx)

380
You mentioned a site for donations a while back
Posted by: Miklos
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Yeah...didn't want to be bleggy. I think that understanding what we were doing before The Storm is critical to understanding what we are about. The facility was completely destroyed. Though the structure survived, the 5 foot wall of muck/mud and water made it unusable.

This : https://shorturl.at/hZL7m

Donations :
https://www.abccm.org/donations/vrqrebuild/

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 25, 2025 01:26 AM (XeU6L)

381 Hey everybody. Popping in for a short time tonight.

Just read that today is the 54th anniversary of DB Cooper's heist.

What do people here think happened to him? It always seemed/sounded to me like he died soon after... but then I have the impression next to none of the cash was ever found.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 25, 2025 01:27 AM (xqw19)

382
341 They fey u l and get crispy.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

Fry up and get crispy.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

Look, try as you might with that "correction", your op's cover is blown. Now, where is this fey Underwriter's Laboratory of which you spoke located?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at November 25, 2025 01:27 AM (xG4kz)

383 'Night, AOP

Posted by: JQ at November 25, 2025 01:27 AM (rdVOm)

384 Thanks, Miklos... Cat is sleeping now. Catnip will have to wait, LOL. I'll be turning in soon and don't need him bouncing off the walls while I try to sleep!

Posted by: JQ at November 25, 2025 01:29 AM (rdVOm)

385
Would some oilfield camp skid shacks work as a dining hall? Some of those camp diners can feed 40 to 50 people no problem. And the skid shacks can be gussied up to look pretty respectable, like modular housing.
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The problem is that we have to provide living quarters also. Currently, we have arranged to rent a portion of a largish motel...but there are no dining facilities, so, we have to make do with some motel parking area space.

Sounds like a great idea, were there skid shacks about.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 25, 2025 01:31 AM (XeU6L)

386 Wandering back through to clock out for the night. 🕧

Turkey and three kinds of pie preps already started.

https://youtu.be/IFQhwB7GBrM

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Pies will not include vanilla fudge. at November 25, 2025 01:36 AM (LaTF/)

387 Sounds like a great idea, were there skid shacks about.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.

FEMA has large capacity mobile kitchens, larger than what you need.

Hmm

Most US Military food service is provided by contractors (I worked with one).

Perhaps they have field kitchens and could be persuaded or paid to provide one.

Posted by: this has started Miklos thinking at November 25, 2025 01:40 AM (N7hqt)

388 Thought

America needs more Amish, and many fewer Ahmads

Amish build people houses

Posted by: Miklos has Thoughts at November 25, 2025 01:45 AM (N7hqt)

389 @mattvanswol . 4h

Patrick Tyson of North Carolina has been charged with arson after SETTING A WOMAN ON FIRE after she refused to get him a beer.

He has been arrested 5 previous times for assaulting a woman + breaking/entering.

He was previously let out on bond for $48...

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 25, 2025 01:50 AM (+Omlu)

390
The Artemis II rocket is full stacked in the VAB:
https://is.gd/RKhLe3

Click on that and embiggen. Note the movable floor platforms that snug up to the rocket stack. Those have to be custom built for each rocket design. And those movable floors are something else, YUGE.

That was all perfected back in the '60s for the Saturn V.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 25, 2025 01:53 AM (w6EFb)

391 😴

fin

Posted by: clarence at November 25, 2025 01:55 AM (GE9Fw)

392
FEMA has large capacity mobile kitchens, larger than what you need.

Hmm
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FEMA: "Is your facility open to all gender/race/etc?"

Uh, no, just qualified male Vets.
*splat*

That does not mean that we have not sought/obtained some FEMA grant money, but it is a lot more complex than most people imagine.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 25, 2025 01:57 AM (XeU6L)

393 Most US Military food service is provided by contractors (I worked with one).

Perhaps they have field kitchens and could be persuaded or paid to provide one.
Posted by: this has started Miklos
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The food itself is donated.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 25, 2025 01:59 AM (XeU6L)

394 That does not mean that we have not sought/obtained some FEMA grant money, but it is a lot more complex than most people imagine.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

No, I am thinking that the contractors who sell to the DoD on scalable field kitchens might be amenable.

At a minimum, it would probably be tax deductible.

And people like the Secretary of War, or even the CiC himself, might look kindly, if attention can be got.

Posted by: Miklos has Thoughts at November 25, 2025 02:02 AM (N7hqt)

395 @OliLondonTV . 1h

Greta Thunberg BANNED from Venice after climate activists poured green dye in the Grand Canal in the name of fighting climate change.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 25, 2025 02:02 AM (+Omlu)

396 Several people facing charges after shooting injures 4 at Christmas tree lighting ceremony.

Concord NC.

Apparently related:
Keyvyonn Rayshaund Bostic
Nasir Ahmad Bostic

Probably Presbyterians.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 25, 2025 02:04 AM (XeU6L)

397
They are nowhere near the pace of stacking YUGE rockets they were in the Apollo glory days. I was just looking. Apollo 8 was Christmas of '68. Apollo 9, testing the LM in LEO was March of '69. Then Apollo 10, dress rehearsal, May, and then Apollo 11 and One Small Step on Jun 20.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 25, 2025 02:04 AM (w6EFb)

398 Greta Thunberg BANNED from Venice after climate activists poured green dye in the Grand Canal in the name of fighting climate change.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 25, 2025 02:02 AM (+Omlu)

Her parents need a ass kicking. What a little scrunt.
I'm sure the fish loved that dye all in their gills... wait. Venice canals, um nevermind.

Posted by: Reforger at November 25, 2025 02:07 AM (03GBw)

399 And people like the Secretary of War, or even the CiC himself, might look kindly, if attention can be got.

Posted by: Miklos
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We've been working such D.C. connections that we have. But, there are bureaucratic swamps to wade through, regulations, state, Fed, local.

We're doing alright, but far from optimum.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 25, 2025 02:08 AM (XeU6L)

400 Believe me, there is not a string to be pulled, or an ear to be bent that we have not pursued, or continue to pursue.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 25, 2025 02:18 AM (XeU6L)

401 Okay, time for me to say g'night. A bit worn down lately.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 25, 2025 02:20 AM (XeU6L)

402
We're doing alright, but far from optimum.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
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Good publicity greases skids.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 25, 2025 02:21 AM (+Omlu)

403 Should I tell her about corn likker?

Yes, tell about the corn licker!

Posted by: creamed corn at November 25, 2025 02:23 AM (lUJxw)

404 G'night, Mike Hammer. Bless you.

Posted by: JQ at November 25, 2025 02:28 AM (rdVOm)

405 JQ at November 25, 2025 02:28 AM (rdVOm)
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So, you've been lurking around all night without a peep.
You and Blinkey back in the corner table quietly critiquing commentary?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 25, 2025 02:40 AM (+Omlu)

406 @mercoglianos .12h

Russian Shadow Tanker Blocked from Sailing to Venezuela from Cuba | USS Stockdale vs MT Seahorse

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 25, 2025 02:44 AM (+Omlu)

407 My Liberal 34 year old son... who I am supporting.... just called me a Racist...

I walked away... not sure how to respond.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 02:48 AM (mP0Kj)

408 Her parents need a ass kicking. What a little scrunt.
I'm sure the fish loved that dye all in their gills... wait. Venice canals, um nevermind.
Posted by: Reforger at November 25, 2025 02:07 AM (03GBw)

the idea that people still being educated, have to be listened too?

WTF?

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 02:50 AM (mP0Kj)

409 407 My Liberal 34 year old son... who I am supporting.... just called me a Racist...

I walked away... not sure how to respond.
Posted by: Romeo13
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Not sure I would have survived that with my dad.
But I am sure my evening time has ran out.
Hopefully sleep will come tonight and I'll see yall
on the flip side. 'night.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 25, 2025 02:52 AM (+Omlu)

410 So the mascot of the annoited has moved back to the pagan druid environmental cult. The kill the Jews money dry up?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 25, 2025 02:54 AM (sAmhv)

411 Not exactly lurking. More like peeking in from time to time, when taking breaks from little chores around the house.

Posted by: JQ at November 25, 2025 02:58 AM (rdVOm)

412 My Liberal 34 year old son... who I am supporting.... just called me a Racist...
I walked away... not sure how to respond.
Posted by: Romeo13
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Wow. But he's okay with a "racist" paying his way, huh?

Posted by: JQ at November 25, 2025 02:59 AM (rdVOm)

413 412 My Liberal 34 year old son... who I am supporting.... just called me a Racist...
I walked away... not sure how to respond.
Posted by: Romeo13
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Wow. But he's okay with a "racist" paying his way, huh?
Posted by: JQ at November 25, 2025 02:59 AM (rdVOm)

Yeah... funny... just like a few Ex Lady friends... just a few words can change shit.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 03:04 AM (mP0Kj)

414 Pay my rent, Hitler!

Posted by: stuff the resistance definitely said at November 25, 2025 03:05 AM (WQ7Xk)

415 Dang, Romeo13. Sorry for your troubles.

My parents were very strict. If I'd sassed or insulted them, especially as an adult under their roof, I would've found my ass out on the street, pronto, with no apology.

Posted by: JQ at November 25, 2025 03:08 AM (rdVOm)

416 Yeah... funny... just like a few Ex Lady friends... just a few words can change shit.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 03:04 AM (mP0Kj)

Eject his sorry ass. At some point, even the hardest of kids needs to be cut off.

Kicked the boy out at 18 because he smoked dope in my house (forbidden), and because he couldn't keep a damned job. These are not high bars, but he couldn't seem to get over them.

After a year, he has figured out that he:

Can't couchsurf with a baby on the way.
Can't feed himself by begging and then feed his "wife" as well.
Needs to be a little bit grateful for the housing we have graciously provided him, until the kid is born and maybe longer if he can get his ass on the straight and narrow.

The first time he misses his rent to us, we sell the condo out from under his ass.

They don't learn if they don't feel the pain, I guess.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 25, 2025 03:21 AM (6Bc88)

417 415 Dang, Romeo13. Sorry for your troubles.

My parents were very strict. If I'd sassed or insulted them, especially as an adult under their roof, I would've found my ass out on the street, pronto, with no apology.
Posted by: JQ at November 25, 2025 03:08 AM (rdVOm)

Yeah... trying hard not to over respond...

But... this hit a really bad emotional issue. one where I was flat out discriminated against as a White Male for promotions in the Navy... which has cost me thousands of dollars in retirement every year for the rest of my life.

I'm a Sigma... so trying to rationalize shit... but...

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 25, 2025 03:26 AM (mP0Kj)

418 MISSON ACCOMPLISHED: ctHILLARY'25

" I Wish There Could Be A National System To Alert Us "We Have Solved" The Problem That Is Trump" ctHILLARY, 2025 -- Terror: TransAmerica !!! This is Clinton's Bridge to the 21st Century.

-- knowing FULL WELL that zizi/Trans-Terror was always their ultimate objective: to Pit Man against other MEN, until we exist no more.

the Brennan undead getting you to dance to whatever tune they play: TRUMP -- CEDE US VENEZEULA or LOSE YOUR GOP/BASE
The Hard-Left Shooters Leading a Gun Culture Revolution...

and ...
Furious Republican Warns More 'Explosive' Resignations Coming...

The Coup against ICEKingJOE will be nothing compared to what they do to Trump... is there really a choice?

As-if we (meaning, normal people, being collateral targets, among the gang who doesn't intend to shoot strait) should not take that literally...

The Truly Evil are abetted by the Venal and the WEAK. And LIBs (especially ctHILLARY [and the ctHARRIS/19] know that America will NOT be destroyed by it's enemies, but by those who's job it was to protect it.

forWAR'd !!!

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at November 25, 2025 03:27 AM (UMIdP)

419 At 34, I was single (freshly divorced) living with a roommate. Had a fulltime job with excellent bennies, paying on a car note & insurance-- no bus system-- and paying off XH's credit card debt. Long story, but worth every penny to be rid of him.

Anyway... it was rough at first. Hard to keep the lights & utilities on. No phone. (This was before cell phones) but I fking *DID IT* without crying to mommy and daddy.

Rent was #1 priority. Keep that roof over my head. I had a beat-up SUV and figured I could live in that, as long as I made the payments, if necessary. Roommate saved the day! She was awesome.

Posted by: JQ at November 25, 2025 03:27 AM (rdVOm)

420 All services restored as of a year ago. Many destroyed homes/businesses, some bridges still out. All critical infrastructure restored (especially water). My partcular concern, which I have harped on here, remains the Veterans Restoration Quarters, where we are still feeding Vets, some almost elderly, in a tent. We have temporary shelter, but it is going to take about 2 years, and $2 million to restablish our facility.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 25, 2025 12:54 AM (XeU6L)

You can order up an entire man camp from suppliers in the Lower 48. Packaged living quarters, shower and toilet facilities, kitchen facilities and dining halls. It sure wouldn't cost $2M, particularly delivered to NC. If you need a source I can find you one. I had them delivered to Western Alaska by barge after barging them up from Seattle to Anchorage, which isn't cheap but still pays for construction purposes up there. Can't be that much to just truck them to your site.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 25, 2025 03:28 AM (6Bc88)

421 Rent was #1 priority. Keep that roof over my head. I had a beat-up SUV and figured I could live in that, as long as I made the payments, if necessary. Roommate saved the day! She was awesome.
Posted by: JQ at November 25, 2025 03:27 AM (rdVOm)

I left home at 17, and managed to suck hind tit more often than not until I made it. There are good choices, and bad choices, but eventually there is only one choice, and you take it.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 25, 2025 03:30 AM (6Bc88)

422 Romeo13-- the kid is disrespecting you, in *your* home. He is an adult. He should know better than to bite the hand what feeds him.

Apparently, he doesn't. IMO, it's time for the lesson.

If he receives mail at your home, he is a legal resident at your address.

Eviction would be required, I believe. Serve the papers & see what happens?

Posted by: JQ at November 25, 2025 03:35 AM (rdVOm)

423 I might as well just get up

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 03:37 AM (+qU29)

424 I left home at 17, and managed to suck hind tit more often than not until I made it. There are good choices, and bad choices, but eventually there is only one choice, and you take it.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK
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Yeah. We're not even going into my teen years, LOL. I'd been in much worse situations before.

Posted by: JQ at November 25, 2025 03:37 AM (rdVOm)

425 My guess is that deadly prank wasn't because he was in the click

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 03:39 AM (+qU29)

426 Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 03:39 AM
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Musloids. Kid could've been anything-- gay, Christian, wrong sect of musloid-- whatever "reason" to killkillkill ya know?

Posted by: JQ at November 25, 2025 03:45 AM (rdVOm)

427 Nite, all. Gotta be out before Pixytime, LOL.

Posted by: JQ at November 25, 2025 03:54 AM (rdVOm)

428 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at November 25, 2025 04:00 AM (RuTUS)

429 The writing in the red band on the French toast says 'Doitsu Fu" which means 'German style'.

Posted by: STV at November 25, 2025 12:16 PM (XMeSM)

De Children of De Night Cafe

draculaparrot.jpg
Technically, it's called Pesquet's Parrot,
but its nickname is much more descriptive --
the Dracula Parrot

Rescuing the original "Dracula parrots," bats.

Soundtrack of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.

Orcas chase (blue?) whale. The sea bird flies above waiting to eat whatever the loser leaves behind.

Even when a hyena is happy, it sounds weird and evil.

Unknown crashing noise spooks neighborhood.

Kangaroos pretend they weren't doin' nuffin' when humans roll up.

Sound on: Goats get their horns locked and make a racket about it.

Meteor Crater in Arizona. I thought it might be AI but it's legit. I didn't think a crater would so clearly remain a crater after so many years. I guess it's a young crater, just 50,000 years old. Some call it the "best-preserved meteorite crater on Earth." I feel a little stupid that this is new to me. Feels like something I should have remembered from In Search Of...

If Dracula lived in the bayou, would his castle be surrounded by gators? I think so.

Playing peak-a-boo with a tiger kitten. This better not be AI.

The highway tax is one whole carrot.

A haunted tree. Okay it's not haunted but this video plays spooky carnival music and I want to keep with the post's spooky theme.

A subsun, an illusion of a glowing form caused by sunlight hitting ice particles from directly above. This must have caused a bunch of ghost sightings.

This honey badger is so aggressive he doesn't care that this elephant is sixty times his size but the elephant is going to teach him that that is an important factor in a fight.

The most demonic animal of all -- a baby penguin.

Ghost!


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1 Sure is empty in here

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2025 07:12 PM (sDNVV)

2 Hey Ben Had!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 24, 2025 07:13 PM (22p5n)

3 Stop torturing that tiger cub.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 24, 2025 07:15 PM (pkeXY)

4 !!driveby.

Posted by: clarence at November 24, 2025 07:15 PM (GE9Fw)

5 SMH, I see you are with your youngest and granddaughters. I know you are loving it. A very Happy Thanksgiving to you all.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2025 07:16 PM (sDNVV)

6
That baby penguin could teach Big Mike a thing or two about swallowing food whole.

And that's saying something!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 24, 2025 07:16 PM (xG4kz)

7 I'm going to guess that "variety of animals show up at night" film ended with AI--the other animals were believable, but I'm not buying the bear as being real.

Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 07:17 PM (TN0g+)

8 chilly!

g'night everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 24, 2025 07:17 PM (Cjt/F)

9 >>>Playing peak-a-boo with a tiger kitten.

Thought going through the cub's head: Just wait until I'm bigger.

Posted by: No Name Today at November 24, 2025 07:18 PM (8mulE)

10 I don't care what anyone says, that bird got bit.

As for Ravens, they are my favorite bird. We have tons of them around here. They will hold a "conversation" with you, if you don't mind sounding like a crazy person to everyone else around you.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 07:19 PM (CTMu4)

11 I'm guessing the Dracula Parrot isn't a fan of garlic.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at November 24, 2025 07:19 PM (31p00)

12 * throws sock_rat a down comforter*

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2025 07:19 PM (sDNVV)

13 The most demonic animal of all -- a baby penguin.

Truth. And the normalization of penguins is Big Penguin's greatest trick.

This marks three consecutive Cafés with penguins happy footing through. Even the world-class janitorial team that Ace has assembled will have difficulty ameliorating, much less eradicating the pernicious mephiticism of their bouquet.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 24, 2025 07:21 PM (0sNs1)

14 The meteor crater clip is distorted photography. You can walk to the bottom (I have) and it is not too steep.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 24, 2025 07:22 PM (8VwBr)

15 Meteor Crater in Arizona. I thought it might be AI but it's legit. I didn't think a crater would so clearly remain a crater after so many years. I guess it's a young crater, just 50,000 years old.

Wiki:
"One of the features of the crater is its squared-off outline, believed to be caused by existing regional jointing (cracks) in the strata at the impact site."

Nah, the simulation hardware wasn't that good 50k years ago, so stuff from back then still looks kind of pixelated.

Posted by: mikeski at November 24, 2025 07:22 PM (nhCoE)

16 Stop torturing that tiger cub.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 24, 2025 07:15 PM (pkeXY)

Worst part is, if you play with them, they won't learn to stay away from humans. No matter where you put them, if they encounter humans they will do what comes naturally.

And messing with them young means they can't go back in the wild, because other tigers don't want them around. Too much human stank and habits.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 07:22 PM (CTMu4)

17 There's a meteor crater at Cumberland gap on the KY side, with a town inside of it. They didn't realize until just recently that it was a crater.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at November 24, 2025 07:24 PM (Hw6WF)

18 Good evening, horde!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 24, 2025 07:24 PM (zYpTz)

19 "hiker captures his own shadow"

It's called a glory, and despite the colors, is not related to the rainbow. (Just wait. The Alphabet People will probably claim it as their own if they are paying attention.)

You can also see it in the clouds below your airplane's shadow, if you stop staring at the screen and look out the window.

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at November 24, 2025 07:24 PM (iDFVA)

20 The meteor crater clip is distorted photography. You can walk to the bottom (I have) and it is not too steep.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 24, 2025 07:22 PM (8VwBr)

Not too far from here. I haven't visited yet, but the plan is to do so in the coming months.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 07:25 PM (CTMu4)

21 That's a creepy looking bird.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2025 07:26 PM (viF8m)

22
* Alfred Hitchcock intonement *

Good evening, Dash my lace wigs!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 24, 2025 07:26 PM (0sNs1)

23 As for Ravens, they are my favorite bird. We have tons of them around here. They will hold a "conversation" with you, if you don't mind sounding like a crazy person to everyone else around you.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 07:19 PM (CTMu4)

I have a family of crows that I feed. They talk to me too, usually at 5 am telling me it's time for breakfast. They stop by a couple of times a day and let me know they're here. I'm ready a book about Corvids (crows, raven, jays and magpies). Fascinating stuff really about how intelligent they are, higher than chimps or democrats.

Posted by: Beartooth at November 24, 2025 07:26 PM (0714D)

24 No noodin bastiges.

Posted by: scampydog at November 24, 2025 07:27 PM (41CYW)

25 Ubehebe Crater. Right next to the Little Hebe.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 24, 2025 07:27 PM (TTak+)

26 Carolla has a funny routine about using trained assault crows as security guards.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 07:28 PM (BI5O2)

27 This honey badger is so aggressive he doesn't care that this elephant is sixty times his size but the elephant is going to teach him that that is an important factor in a fight.

Elephant needs to get some more elevation on that if he's gonna be an NFL place-kicker.

Posted by: mikeski at November 24, 2025 07:28 PM (nhCoE)

28 Fascinating stuff really about how intelligent they are, higher than chimps or democrats.
Posted by: Beartooth at November 24, 2025 07:26 PM

The latter isn't that high of a bar.

Posted by: Jasmine C. from Dallas at November 24, 2025 07:28 PM (0sNs1)

29
Middlesboro crater, it's called I see looking it up. They first suspected in only in 1966.

They taken to calling these and other impact features "astroblemes" meaning "star wounds".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 07:28 PM (w6EFb)

30 Meteor Crater in Arizona. I thought it might be AI but it's legit. I didn't think a crater would so clearly remain a crater after so many years. I guess it's a young crater, just 50,000 years old.


When I visited I thought "Wow! The impact just missed the gift shop. What luck!!"

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2025 07:29 PM (cYBz/)

31 >>>A variety of animals coming to drink water at night

Skunks are bullies.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 07:29 PM (dK+Kv)

32 Salvatore “Waddles” Ghiaccio - il pinguino de tutti pinguini - is reading the Ace of Spades comment section. He suddenly curses softly under his breath, grabs a Pilchard Perfecto from his humidor and crams it in his mouth.
“Ya know, Beaks, I don't know what's up with this Dinkletrax boid. I have reached out to da guy and tried to come to a…a… say, Marco, what is it when da Democrats and Republicans vote da same way on some scheme to fleece da taxpayer?”
“Dat’s called a bi-paisan vote, boss”.
“Yeh, dat’s it, I been lookin’ for a bi-paisan solution, and dis goomba just keeps giving’ me da raspberries. I t'ink da woild would be a better place with fewer and better Dunkletrixes. Now, I don’t know how to make ‘em better, but I got a good idea about how to make ‘em fewer. So, Beaks, I got a job for yez.”
“Yeh, boss?”
“Dunkletax hangs out in a bar called de Frisky Ewok. I want yez to drive by dere, make sure he’s inside, and lob a pineapple at ‘im. Capish?”
“Sure,sure, boss, a piece a’cake”. To be continued...

Posted by: Paco at November 24, 2025 07:29 PM (mADJX)

33 Good evening Dash!!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2025 07:30 PM (cYBz/)

34 Dash, check your phone, please.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2025 07:30 PM (sDNVV)

35 No noodin bastiges.
Posted by: scampydog

Ben Had announced the cafe at 7:13 (willowing me at 7:12), but she didn't use the N word.

Posted by: mikeski at November 24, 2025 07:30 PM (nhCoE)

36 They taken to calling these and other impact features "astroblemes" meaning "star wounds".
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 07:28 PM (w6EFb)

both of which would be great names for a metal band.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 24, 2025 07:30 PM (0aYVJ)

37 Continued from 32
Two hours later, Beaks returns.
“So, how’d it go, Beaks?”
“Well, I drove by da bar, and he was dere, alright, so’s I chucked a pineapple at ‘im, just like youse told me”.
“And?”
“He caught da pineapple one-handed, den he sliced it up and ate it. Said it was delicious and sends his regards.”
“What?!? I didn’t mean to t’row a pineapple like what grows on palm trees, ya moax! I meant a grenade!”
“Gee, boss, don’t take dat altitude. I didn’t know da jargon. And, when yez t’ink about it, a grenade looks more like a artichoke, wouldn’t ya say?”
Waddles’ subsequent short but vitriolic speech is redacted inasmuch as this is a family blog.

Posted by: Paco at November 24, 2025 07:32 PM (mADJX)

38 scampydog, what part of the Cafe is open did you miss? I'm just messing with you !

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2025 07:32 PM (sDNVV)

39 I have a family of crows that I feed. They talk to me too, usually at 5 am telling me it's time for breakfast. They stop by a couple of times a day and let me know they're here. I'm ready a book about Corvids (crows, raven, jays and magpies). Fascinating stuff really about how intelligent they are, higher than chimps or democrats.
Posted by: Beartooth at November 24, 2025 07:26 PM (0714D)

Crows are interesting, but they're like C student ninth graders, while Ravens are Stanford grad students in one of the hard sciences.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 07:33 PM (CTMu4)

40
We have Fish Crows down at our place in Sussex County. They are a distinct species from the Common Crow and the Common Raven. Their calls are distinctly different from these other two corvids.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 24, 2025 07:33 PM (xG4kz)

41 24 No noodin bastiges.

Posted by: scampydog at November 24, 2025 07:27 PM (41CYW)

The declaration of nood was just.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 07:33 PM (dK+Kv)

42 When I visited I thought "Wow! The impact just missed the gift shop. What luck!!"
Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2025 07:29 PM (cYBz/)

Heh.

Thankfully it hit not that far from the interstate.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 07:34 PM (CTMu4)

43 Technically, it's called Pesquet's Parrot,
but its nickname is much more descriptive --
the Dracula Parrot

Polly want a cracker Your Soul

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2025 07:35 PM (ynpvh)

44 while Ravens are Stanford grad students in one of the hard sciences.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 07:33 PM (CTMu4)

You mean they are DEIing hard while smoking weed and dumping kn the white man and how gravity is racist?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 07:35 PM (zZu0s)

45 Polly want a cracker Your Soul
Posted by: jim

Too late! I've sold it multiple times. What could go wrong?

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2025 07:36 PM (cYBz/)

46 >>> They taken to calling these and other impact features "astroblemes" meaning "star wounds".
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 07:28 PM (w6EFb)

both of which would be great names for a metal band.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 24, 2025 07:30 PM (0aYVJ)


Astroblemes would be a prog metal group. Starwounds would be a stoner metal group.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 24, 2025 07:36 PM (3uBP9)

47 Technically, it's called Pesquet's Parrot,
but its nickname is much more descriptive --
the Dracula Parrot

Polly want a cracker Your Soul

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2025 07:35 PM (ynpvh)

Those have red heads.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 07:36 PM (dK+Kv)

48
I think the highest resolution dating of the Meteor Crater impact is 56Kya now. And there was a recent paper, where they think that impact event caused a landslide in the Grand Canyon, which dammed the river and let to the formation of lake, which lasted about 1000 years before it burst.

There's ancient driftwood high up in caves, and they dated that wood to the same 56K years ago.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 07:36 PM (w6EFb)

49 Sign that Elephant up!

Posted by: SAINTS COACH at November 24, 2025 07:37 PM (8I4hW)

50 Geeze Ace, you've never seen that crater? Have you seen Starman?

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at November 24, 2025 07:38 PM (r+xel)

51 33 Good evening Dash!!
Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2025 07:30 PM (cYBz/)

Tonypete! *waves wildly

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 24, 2025 07:38 PM (zYpTz)

52 Meteor Crater in Arizona. I thought it might be AI but it's legit. I didn't think a crater would so clearly remain a crater after so many years. I guess it's a young crater, just 50,000 years old.[i/]

It's big enough that you can clearly see the raised lip from I-40. Been there, done that.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 24, 2025 07:39 PM (/HDaX)

53 You mean they are DEIing hard while smoking weed and dumping kn the white man and how gravity is racist?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 07:35 PM (zZu0s)

Don't tell me Stanford is full of dodo birds now too.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 07:39 PM (CTMu4)

54 We have Fish Crows down at our place in Sussex County. They are a distinct species from the Common Crow and the Common Raven. Their calls are distinctly different from these other two corvids.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 24, 2025 07:33 PM (xG4kz)

I have albums from Counting Crows and from Black Crowes, and a 45 from just plain Crow ("Cottage Cheese," yes, that is seriously the song title, circa 1970, beyond awesome, and, no, it is not an instrumental). I guess I need to add some tunes from the Fish Crows.

Posted by: Schroedinger's Cat Wears the Emperor's New Clothes at November 24, 2025 07:40 PM (bWR5k)

55 DH to dogs: Oh, is it treat time? Is that why you are following me?

Me: When is it NOT treat time?



I'm fixing up a batch of Apple Bacon Jam. The whole house smells lovely just now.

Plus I got a cast iron dragon to put on the wood stove, and it has steam coming out its nose.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 24, 2025 07:40 PM (6Bc88)

56 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2025 07:41 PM (+qU29)

57 We're heading out on a cruise, and we'd love to have you join us!

We'll be the ones with upside-down pineapples on our cabin doors. IYKYK.

Posted by: Lena, Whoopi, Joy, Triggly, and Lizzo at November 24, 2025 07:41 PM (iN5AS)

58 “Dunkletax hangs out in a bar called de Frisky Ewok. I want yez to drive by dere, make sure he’s inside, and lob a pineapple at ‘im. Capish?”

Posted by: Paco at November 24, 2025 07:29 PM (mADJX)

Dunkletax...Dinkletrax...lol

Duncanthrax is working up an eloquent thrashing for you right now. I'd lay money on it.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 24, 2025 07:41 PM (zYpTz)

59 There's ancient driftwood high up in caves, and they dated that wood to the same 56K years ago.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 07:36 PM (w6EFb)

Could that driftwood have been put there by an ancient civilization, with an intelligence far beyond anything this planet had ever seen before?

Posted by: Graham Handcocked at November 24, 2025 07:41 PM (CTMu4)

60 There's ancient driftwood high up in caves, and they dated that wood to the same 56K years ago.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 07:36 PM (w6EFb)

Holy cow. that is seriously cool. Imagine being around when the lake drained. What little I know of dams, is that the water erosion is slow, then sudden.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 24, 2025 07:42 PM (0aYVJ)

61
They taken to calling these and other impact features "astroblemes"

Sounds like Miracle Max from "The Princess Bride"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at November 24, 2025 07:43 PM (xG4kz)

62 17 There's a meteor crater at Cumberland gap on the KY side, with a town inside of it. They didn't realize until just recently that it was a crater.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at November 24, 2025 07:24 PM (Hw6WF)


They're always in the last place you look.

Posted by: Gref at November 24, 2025 07:43 PM (5rh/l)

63 I have albums from Counting Crows and from Black Crowes, and a 45 from just plain Crow ("Cottage Cheese," yes, that is seriously the song title, circa 1970, beyond awesome, and, no, it is not an instrumental). I guess I need to add some tunes from the Fish Crows.
Posted by: Schroedinger's Cat Wears the Emperor's New Clothes at November 24, 2025 07:40 PM (bWR5k)

Nothing from Jim Crowchee?

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 07:43 PM (CTMu4)

64 I have albums from Counting Crows and from Black Crowes, and a 45 from just plain Crow ("Cottage Cheese," yes, that is seriously the song title, circa 1970, beyond awesome, and, no, it is not an instrumental). I guess I need to add some tunes from the Fish Crows.
Posted by: Schroedinger's Cat Wears the Emperor's New Clothes at November 24, 2025 07:40 PM (bWR5k)

Nothing from Jim Crowchee?
Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 07:43 PM (CTMu4)

One square!

Posted by: Sheryl Crow at November 24, 2025 07:44 PM (wVcYX)

65 Dear bastiges, my apologies for my lack of noticing the nood calls on previous thread. Consider this my formal retraction.

Posted by: scampydog - Roman Moroney at November 24, 2025 07:44 PM (41CYW)

66 Could that driftwood have been put there by an ancient civilization, with an intelligence far beyond anything this planet had ever seen before?
Posted by: Graham Handcocked at November 24, 2025 07:41 PM (CTMu4)

Don't be silly, at that time they were learning to build incredibly complex walls in Cuzco with flint and bearskins

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 07:45 PM (rbvCR)

67 tcn, Thank you again for the delicious salmon you provided for the MoMe.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2025 07:45 PM (sDNVV)

68 Plus I got a cast iron dragon to put on the wood stove, and it has steam coming out its nose.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 24, 2025 07:40 PM (6Bc8

I want one of those. Even though I have no wood stove.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 24, 2025 07:45 PM (zYpTz)

69 Probably okay to play with cheetah cubs though. They're not terribly strong, and if they hang around humans then they're not getting bullied by hyenas and lions like they usually are.
Also they're friend shaped.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 24, 2025 07:45 PM (gKWVE)

70 Top pic:

"Polly want carrion. Right f*cking now!"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2025 07:46 PM (npFr7)

71 Evening.

That dog in the last video wasn't showing live, he was showing submission.

Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at November 24, 2025 07:46 PM (b3guP)

72 Pineapples don't grow on palm trees.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at November 24, 2025 07:46 PM (Tn9sO)

73 Consider this my formal retraction.
Posted by: scampydog - Roman Moroney at November 24, 2025 07:44 PM (41CYW)

The internet is forever. You know that.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 24, 2025 07:48 PM (6Bc88)

74 67 tcn, Thank you again for the delicious salmon you provided for the MoMe.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2025 07:45 PM (sDNVV)

Let's hope for another good year on the river, shall we?

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 24, 2025 07:48 PM (6Bc88)

75 Don't be silly, at that time they were learning to build incredibly complex walls in Cuzco with flint and bearskins
Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 07:45 PM (rbvCR)

See, that's what I find funny. I couldn't care less about his "theories" of ancient aliens, or whatever he's on about.

What I find interesting is that we keep finding out civilizations do in fact, go back further than we previously thought.

And some of the Poobahs of archeology don't like being proven wrong on the timelines.

Whether it's aliens, or just humans who were a damn lot smarter than we've given them credit for, far further back in history than we thought... all I know is there's no such thing as settled freakin' science.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 07:49 PM (CTMu4)

76 tcn, we shall.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2025 07:49 PM (sDNVV)

77 >>> I have albums from Counting Crows and from Black Crowes, and a 45 from just plain Crow ("Cottage Cheese," yes, that is seriously the song title, circa 1970, beyond awesome, and, no, it is not an instrumental). I guess I need to add some tunes from the Fish Crows.
Posted by: Schroedinger's Cat Wears the Emperor's New Clothes at November 24, 2025 07:40 PM (bWR5k)

Nothing from Jim Crowchee?
Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 07:43 PM (CTMu4)

One square!
Posted by: Sheryl Crow at November 24, 2025 07:44 PM (wVcYX)

Don't forget Old Crow Medicine Show

Posted by: banana Dream at November 24, 2025 07:49 PM (3uBP9)

78
The Meteor Crater impactor was around 100m, about a football field in diameter, and impact energy was 10 MT. A pretty good nuking, but just 1/5th of a Tsar Bomba.

In contrast, the Dino-killer energy was 2 *million* Tsar Bombas.

So the AZ impact was a "local news story", not a global ELE event.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 07:49 PM (w6EFb)

79 My personal favorite for alternative name for a raven is "Halloween chicken."

Posted by: Nancy@7000ft at November 24, 2025 07:49 PM (wYaAc)

80 LOL, you missing Halloween, Ace?

Posted by: GWB at November 24, 2025 07:49 PM (AlQPO)

81 both of which would be great names for a metal band.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

Astroblemes would be a prog metal group. Starwounds would be a stoner metal group.
Posted by: banana Dream

I think Astrobleme is darkwave, and Starwounds is dream pop.

.....and I saw Starwounds open for Lovespirals at First Avenue in 2003.

https://youtu.be/qrRHYl6c4AY

Posted by: mikeski at November 24, 2025 07:49 PM (nhCoE)

82 Meteor Crater, the Grand Canyon, the Petrified Forest, the Lost Dutchman Mine, the Superstition Mountains; all in Arizona. You folks in AZ ought to get out before the next severe cosmic or paranormal abnormality hits!

Posted by: Gref at November 24, 2025 07:50 PM (5rh/l)

83 It’s already dark. Like dark dark.

Like my soul.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 24, 2025 07:50 PM (j2BVb)

84 I want one of those. Even though I have no wood stove.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 24, 2025 07:45 PM (zYpTz)

Amazon:

Plow & Hearth Dragon Wood Stove Steamer | Cast Iron Fireplace Humidifier | Matte Black | Rust Resistant | Functional Kettle Alternative | 2.75 QT Capacity

Very cool, indeed.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 24, 2025 07:50 PM (6Bc88)

85 If Ella married a Mr. Salmon, she'd probably hate seeing her name on an alphabetized list as Salmon, Ella.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 24, 2025 07:50 PM (0sNs1)

86 SMH, I see you are with your youngest and granddaughters. I know you are loving it. A very Happy Thanksgiving to you all.
Posted by: Ben Had
___

Not until Wednesday. Will be there over the weekend though.

I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 24, 2025 07:50 PM (22p5n)

87 Pineapples don't grow on palm trees.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at November 24, 2025 07:46 PM (Tn9sO)

No, but you sure do like to shove them up your fairy backside, you skinny poofter.

Posted by: Zombie Sean Connery at November 24, 2025 07:51 PM (CTMu4)

88 48
I think the highest resolution dating of the Meteor Crater impact is 56Kya now. And there was a recent paper, where they think that impact event caused a landslide in the Grand Canyon, which dammed the river and let to the formation of lake, which lasted about 1000 years before it burst.

There's ancient driftwood high up in caves, and they dated that wood to the same 56K years ago.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 07:36 PM (w6EFb)

Reminds me of how they determined the asteroid that kilt the dinos happened during North America spring based on the fish that died having tiny glass spherules stuck in their gills and based on their bone layer growth.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2025 07:51 PM (ynpvh)

89 SMH, Happy Birthday on your special day.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2025 07:52 PM (sDNVV)

90 Plow & Hearth Dragon Wood Stove Steamer
Very cool, indeed.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 24, 2025 07:50 PM (6Bc8

I can always stick it on the mantel of my non-functional fireplace, and just admire it.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 24, 2025 07:53 PM (zYpTz)

91 87 Pineapples don't grow on palm trees.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at November 24, 2025 07:46 PM (Tn9sO)

No, but you sure do like to shove them up your fairy backside, you skinny poofter.

Posted by: Zombie Sean Connery at November 24, 2025 07:51 PM (CTMu4)

::: cuts down a palm tree, leaving it's trunk at 2ft above the ground, grows a pineapple in a large pot on top of said trunk :::

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2025 07:53 PM (ynpvh)

92 Plus I got a cast iron dragon to put on the wood stove, and it has steam coming out its nose.
Posted by: tcn

Scaled up, wouldn't we have a Brazen Bull?

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2025 07:53 PM (cYBz/)

93
Sorry, Meteor Crater impactor was just half that, 50m, so half a football field. I was confusing that with something else. But energy was 10 MT.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 07:53 PM (w6EFb)

94 Pineapples don't grow on palm trees.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at November 24, 2025 07:46 PM (Tn9sO)

Shut up, Wesley.

Posted by: GWB at November 24, 2025 07:53 PM (AlQPO)

95 Meteor Crater was pretty cool. Was quite a bit larger than I had imagined.

Posted by: scampydog at November 24, 2025 07:54 PM (41CYW)

96 If Ella married a Mr. Salmon, she'd probably hate seeing her name on an alphabetized list as Salmon, Ella.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

A grade/high school classmate of mine - Patty Rice - was the source of 12 years of hilarity during the roll call the first day of classes.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2025 07:54 PM (cYBz/)

97 It’s already dark. Like dark dark.

Like my soul.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 24, 2025 07:50 PM

Nay, nay, lady. You are a nacreous and splendiferous beacon shining in our otherwise drab and dreary existences.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 24, 2025 07:55 PM (0sNs1)

98 It's definitely a 2 dog night and all I have is 1 dog.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2025 07:55 PM (viF8m)

99 Dewey Crow?

Not anymore he don't.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 07:55 PM (2jpkJ)

100 95 Meteor Crater was pretty cool. Was quite a bit larger than I had imagined.

Posted by: scampydog at November 24, 2025 07:54 PM (41CYW)

Amazing what a large-enough iron rock traveling at 50,000 mph can do with all that momentum, even after being converted to great heat, evaporation said meteor...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2025 07:56 PM (ynpvh)

101 98 It's definitely a 2 dog night and all I have is 1 dog.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2025 07:55 PM (viF8m)

I have cats...do I have a cat house?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2025 07:56 PM (ynpvh)

102 LOL, you missing Halloween, Ace?
Posted by: GWB

He was looking for turkey pictures, but they're all in hiding this week.

Maybe we'll get a turkey Cafe just before Christmas.

Posted by: mikeski at November 24, 2025 07:57 PM (nhCoE)

103
nurse,

Son is driving to Seatac now from Port Townsend. His flight is at 5:30 a.m. tomorrow.

Coming here for Thanksgiving. We're so excited.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 24, 2025 07:57 PM (3ek7K)

104 SMH, it's your birthday? Happy birthday! Hope it's grand.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 24, 2025 07:57 PM (zYpTz)

105 Dumbo crows >>> all other crows

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 24, 2025 07:57 PM (wVcYX)

106
It's only the dense objects that make it to the ground and leave craters. Less denser objects, like comets and their fragments don't leave craters, but explode in massive airbursts. It's still a good nuking, but doesn't leave the crater.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 07:57 PM (w6EFb)

107 SMH, it's your birthday? Happy birthday! Hope it's grand.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
___

Wednesday. Day before Thanksgiving this year.

But thanks. : )

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 24, 2025 07:58 PM (22p5n)

108
The Tunguska Event was an example of one of those massive airbursts.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 07:58 PM (w6EFb)

109 Lol @ babylonbee

"Trump To Execute All Turkeys Pardoned By Biden's Autopen"

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 07:58 PM (BI5O2)

110 More gifts form Minneapolis Somalis.


>>@Dapper_Det
·
47s
>>🚨BREAKING: The Somali takeover of Minneapolis is worse than we thought. Fraudulent claims for autism treatment in Minnesota spiked from $3 million to $399 million in just 5 years. Illegal Alien Muslim populations are decimating our healthcare system w/ fraud in sanctuary cities.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2025 07:59 PM (viF8m)

111 108
The Tunguska Event was an example of one of those massive airbursts.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
---------
Yes, that was a biggie.

Posted by: scampydog at November 24, 2025 07:59 PM (41CYW)

112 Sheryl Crow was hot once.

On Saturday I made it a point to play “Run Baby Run”. Where were you and what were you doing (if old enough) when you found out Aldous Huxley and C.S. Lewis died?

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 24, 2025 07:59 PM (2fCWp)

113
They're all thieves.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 24, 2025 08:00 PM (3ek7K)

114 Reminds me of how they determined the asteroid that kilt the dinos happened during North America spring based on the fish that died having tiny glass spherules stuck in their gills and based on their bone layer growth.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2025 07:51 PM (ynpvh)

In spite of the hits science has taken, due to all the frauds and evil monsters who have given it a bad name lately, I do love science, sexually.

And to me it's like magic, that there are people who can dig in the dirt and discover things about our past, going back billions of years.

Or look up in the sky, and tell us what's going on gazillions of light years away.

Not to mention surgeons who can cut open a preemie baby's chest, and fix a heart that is tinier than one you get out of a box of Lucky Charms.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 08:00 PM (2jpkJ)

115
These cometary airburst events are probably more frequent than thought, too, as they don't leave the crater evidence.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 08:00 PM (w6EFb)

116 On average Somalis are retarded.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 24, 2025 08:00 PM (estQK)

117 Ye ole watering hole is a magnificent place for harvesting this week's stew.

Potatoes, carrots and onions, happy Thanksgiving!

Note: I've never tried skunk.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at November 24, 2025 08:00 PM (WFC1M)

118 It's only the dense objects that make it to the ground and leave craters. Less denser objects, like comets and their fragments don't leave craters, but explode in massive airbursts. It's still a good nuking, but doesn't leave the crater.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 07:57 PM (w6EFb)

Hot Fudge Tuesdae @ 640,000 megatons

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 24, 2025 08:01 PM (wVcYX)

119 Happy Birthday, SMH!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2025 08:01 PM (npFr7)

120 AOP!

Thanks!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 24, 2025 08:02 PM (22p5n)

121 I need to add some tunes from the Fish Crows.
Posted by: Schroedinger's Cat

And Crowbot. (Crobot. local. not sure if they've hit)

Posted by: t-bird at November 24, 2025 08:03 PM (zfkPG)

122 77 >>> I have albums from Counting Crows and from Black Crowes, and a 45 from just plain Crow ("Cottage Cheese," yes, that is seriously the song title, circa 1970, beyond awesome, and, no, it is not an instrumental). I guess I need to add some tunes from the Fish Crows.
Posted by: Schroedinger's Cat Wears the Emperor's New Clothes at November 24, 2025 07:40 PM (bWR5k)

Nothing from Jim Crowchee?
Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 07:43 PM (CTMu4)

One square!
Posted by: Sheryl Crow at November 24, 2025 07:44 PM (wVcYX)

Don't forget Old Crow Medicine Show
Posted by: banana Dream at November 24, 2025 07:49 PM (3uBP9)

AM I CHOPPED LIVER?

Posted by: Crow T. Robot at November 24, 2025 08:03 PM (2fCWp)

123 Beware The Penguins

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 24, 2025 08:05 PM (2fCWp)

124 Publius, look up the Carswell Structure, in northwest Saskatchewan. Impact crater of Proterozoic age, may have been initially 30 miles across.

And there is a large subsurface impact crater in southern Alberta, that has been delineated by seismic surveys and well drilling.

And there is a small, fairly recent, like post-glacial? one near Whitecourt, Alberta. I should go see it sometime. A day's drive for me, there and back.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2025 08:05 PM (npFr7)

125
I have a question about Charlie Brown T-Giving:

Why were the Peanuts Gang left all alone?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 08:05 PM (37Fks)

126 Old Crow was once the top-selling bourbon in the United States and gained fame among notable figures, including politicians like Henry Clay and Ulysses S. Grant, military leaders such as Confederate General Jubal Early and World War II pilot Bud Anderson, and writers like Mark Twain and Hunter S. Thompson.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 24, 2025 08:06 PM (wVcYX)

127 That tiger kitten is going to rip that guys arms off someday

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2025 08:06 PM (+qU29)

128 100 95 Meteor Crater was pretty cool. Was quite a bit larger than I had imagined.

Posted by: scampydog at November 24, 2025 07:54 PM (41CYW)

Amazing what a large-enough iron rock traveling at 50,000 mph can do with all that momentum, even after being converted to great heat, evaporation said meteor...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2025 07:56 PM (ynpvh)


Kinetic energy of an object increases by the square of its velocity. That's why banging your car into a light pole at 35 miles per hour damages your car and the light pole a whole, whole, lot more than hitting the pole at 5 mph. So remember - ALWAYS stay out of the way of anything moving at 50,000 mph!!!!!

Posted by: Gref at November 24, 2025 08:06 PM (5rh/l)

129 On average Somalis are retarded.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Ha! That's the first thing a Minneapolis friend said about the news. Said it will make the roads *much* safer. I hope they don't give Somalis trucks to drive in the winter.

Posted by: t-bird at November 24, 2025 08:07 PM (zfkPG)

130 Sooth I always wondered that.
And no one was at grandma's house

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2025 08:07 PM (+qU29)

131 Why were there so many lesbians on Peanuts?

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 24, 2025 08:07 PM (estQK)

132 That was a good kick by the elephant, straight right into the net.

I've been to the crater. I think it's in a number of movies too.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 24, 2025 08:10 PM (n5tGW)

133 Why were the Peanuts Gang left all alone?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 08:05 PM (37Fks)

Their parents went to Paris for the holidays and inadvertently left them at home

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 08:10 PM (rbvCR)

134 Why were there so many lesbians on Peanuts?
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 24, 2025 08:07 PM (estQK)

Cuz cashews go straight to their thighs?

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 08:10 PM (442Ay)

135
And no one was at grandma's house
Posted by: Skip

Yeah, Skip, makes no sense.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 08:11 PM (37Fks)

136 four seasons,
I do hope you’ve been to PT for the Wooden Boat Festival.


I love that crazy logging mill town.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 24, 2025 08:11 PM (GtiC3)

137
The Younger-Dryas impact hypothesis, the evidence for which is coming in pretty good now, was a cometary fragment shotgun blast.

The remains of that object are likely Comet Encke and the the Taurid stream.

It think the best dating 12.8Kya now, but I'm not sure. Anyway, massive comet broke up into pieces, and the Erf plowed into that debris stream, getting a shotgun blast of dirty snowball impactors. Imagine 10 megaton nuke blasts going off all over NA, and the ice sheets.

Interestingly, Africa was apparently the safest place to be during that, suffering the least effects.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 08:12 PM (w6EFb)

138 131 Why were there so many lesbians on Peanuts?

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 24, 2025 08:07 PM (estQK)

Because trannies hadn't yet reached the top of the oppressed victim pyramid.

Posted by: Gref at November 24, 2025 08:12 PM (5rh/l)

139
It just occurred to me that South Park is a direct ripoff of Charlie Brown.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 08:12 PM (37Fks)

140 >116 On average Somalis are retarded.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 24, 2025 08:00 PM (estQK)

Not as retarded as the Fed Gov drones who approved the fraudulent claims. Deport. Them. All.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at November 24, 2025 08:13 PM (GTqXr)

141 It was very windy at the Meteor Crater when we went. It was interesting but cold.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 08:13 PM (ys6FW)

142
The Tunguska impactor was likely from the Taurid stream as well.

The problem with the Taurids is they come out of the sun when the earth crosses the stream. You can't see 'em coming. It's possible another good size chunk is lurking out there.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 08:14 PM (w6EFb)

143 Meteor Crater is right off I40. There's signage showing the exit, which indicates some sort of government recognition/status, but it's privately owned.
The admission fee is over $30. They try to tie it into "space" and "astronomy", but, when you come down to.it, you've just paid thirty+ bucks to look at a big hole in the ground.
They have a great gift shop, though, which was much more attractive to the great grandkids than the actual hole.

Posted by: buddhaha at November 24, 2025 08:14 PM (QCk9o)

144
Bob Newhart Show had a couple of good Thanksgiving & Christmas episodes.

Newhart show, too.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 08:14 PM (37Fks)

145
nurse,

We haven't been up there for that yet.

Son loves it there. He's lived there 14 years. He says he doesn't want to live anywhere else.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 24, 2025 08:14 PM (3ek7K)

146 Marxism's goal is to crash the system then forcefully replace it if they have to.

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2025 08:15 PM (+qU29)

147 I'm not sure the FedGov drones who approved the fraud were retarded. They got their money, I'd bet.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at November 24, 2025 08:15 PM (+4S8X)

148 It was very windy at the Meteor Crater when we went. It was interesting but cold.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 08:13 PM (ys6FW)

Apparently it makes its own weather.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2025 08:15 PM (npFr7)

149 Hot Fudge Tuesdae @ 640,000 megatons
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 24, 2025 08:01 PM (wVcYX)
Lucifer's Hammer could not be made into a movie today, well, not as the book by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven demands.

Posted by: Eromero at November 24, 2025 08:16 PM (LHPAg)

150 I have a question about Charlie Brown T-Giving:
Why were the Peanuts Gang left all alone?
Posted by: Soothsayer

'70s & '80s kids were free-range, but those '50s kids were something else, huh?

Posted by: mikeski at November 24, 2025 08:17 PM (nhCoE)

151 * waves to Barely ScaryMary and her Hubby*

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2025 08:17 PM (sDNVV)

152 They have a great gift shop, though, which was much more attractive to the great grandkids than the actual hole.
Posted by: buddhaha at November 24, 2025 08:14 PM (QCk9o)

It's heirs to the Barringer family that own the site, isn't it?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2025 08:17 PM (npFr7)

153 It just occurred to me that South Park is a direct ripoff of Charlie Brown.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 08:12 PM (37Fks)

I'll never forget that episode of Charlie Brown, where Schroeder's crackhead mom turns out to be a hermaphrodite, who is both Schroeder's mother AND father.

Or when Schroeder kills a guy's parents, and then feeds the kid chili made from his dead parents' flesh.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 08:18 PM (442Ay)

154 The admission fee is over $30. They try to tie it into "space" and "astronomy", but, when you come down to.it, you've just paid thirty+ bucks to look at a big hole in the ground.
They have a great gift shop, though, which was much more attractive to the great grandkids than the actual hole.
Posted by: buddhaha at November 24, 2025 08:14 PM (QCk9o)

I've paid a LOT more than $30 to look in a hole before.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 08:20 PM (442Ay)

155
BurtTC,

eewwwwwww

So glad I ate the last bit of chili last night.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 24, 2025 08:21 PM (3ek7K)

156 Mom was always home. But they just did not really get phased when you said you were going to go ride your bike around the neighborhood.

And this could be repression, but I cannot remember a creepy adult. This could also be because I was always a bit antisocial.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 08:21 PM (zZu0s)

157 Apparently it makes its own weather.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2025 08:15 PM (npFr7)

So does Rosie O'Donnell's crater.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 08:21 PM (442Ay)

158 That part of the statue of Liberty that says give us your tired, poor, bums. We need to sand blast that part off. We have more than enough

Posted by: Case at November 24, 2025 08:21 PM (5Je/N)

159 *waves at Ben Had*

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 08:22 PM (ys6FW)

160 Burt is like the Howard Stern of AoS.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 08:23 PM (zZu0s)

161 BurtTC,

eewwwwwww

So glad I ate the last bit of chili last night.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 24, 2025 08:21 PM (3ek7K)

If you've never seen the episode, the kid had it coming.

Stupid ginger Scott Tenorman.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 08:23 PM (5ghZ7)

162 Big jug of Old Crow - Crow Magnum.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 24, 2025 08:23 PM (pkeXY)

163 Burt is like the Howard Stern of AoS.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 08:23 PM (zZu0s)

Jeez man, what did I ever do to you?

I would prefer Don Rickles. Sure, I go hard in the paint, but none of it's meant to be mean.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 08:25 PM (5ghZ7)

164 110
'Fraudulent claims for autism treatment in Minnesota spiked from $3 million to $399 million in just 5 years. Illegal Alien Muslim populations '

Why didn't we just invite a bunch of rats to live here instead?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 24, 2025 08:26 PM (fd80v)

165 Why were there so many lesbians on Peanuts?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Sally liked Linus, Lucy liked Schroeder. I don't think Violet or Freida crushed on anybody, and they were minor enough characters that I had to look up their names.

So, Peppermint Patty & Marcie? Or maybe just Marcie? PP might have just been a tomboy.

Charlie Brown liked the (off-screen) little red-haired girl, and, with his luck, I guess it would be on-brand for his crush to be a lesbian.....

Posted by: watch mikeski take this too seriously at November 24, 2025 08:27 PM (nhCoE)

166 I would prefer Don Rickles. Sure, I go hard in the paint, but none of it's meant to be mean.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 08:25 PM (5ghZ7)

To be Don Rickles, you'd have to have wit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 08:27 PM (zZu0s)

167 That is the coolest looking parrot ever.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 24, 2025 08:28 PM (fGmWu)

168
Bob Newhart Show had a couple of good Thanksgiving & Christmas episodes.

Moo Goo Gai Pan!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 24, 2025 08:28 PM (pkeXY)

169 They were all like 8 years old, created like 70 years ago. None of them were really gay coded. Fucking quit it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 08:29 PM (zZu0s)

170 To be Don Rickles, you'd have to have wit.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 08:27 PM (zZu0s)

I've been told I'm halfway there.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 08:30 PM (5ghZ7)

171 The next to last video is the Spectre of the Brocken:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_(optical_phenomenon)

For further reading see:

https://is.gd/YLGHHu

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 24, 2025 08:30 PM (f5j/P)

172 Why didn't we just invite a bunch of rats to live here instead?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 24, 2025 08:26 PM (fd80v)

We did.

Demon rats!

Aaaaahahahahahahahahaha! I crack me up.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 08:30 PM (5ghZ7)

173 The admission fee is over $30. They try to tie it into "space" and "astronomy", but, when you come down to.it, you've just paid thirty+ bucks to look at a big hole in the ground.
They have a great gift shop, though, which was much more attractive to the great grandkids than the actual hole.
Posted by: buddhaha
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I've paid a LOT more than $30 to look in a hole before.
Posted by: BurtTC

Check out Kilbourne Hole, near Dona Ana, NM.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/ WzFGewA3UzeX3KHTA

Admission is free. I've driven down into it, explored around it some. Interesting place.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 24, 2025 08:30 PM (QVmho)

174 Scott Tenorman Must Die was the one South Park episode that was sort of based on a Shakespeare play

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 08:31 PM (rbvCR)

175 Fun trivia about that guy who sees his shadow in the sky, from “connections” - the circular rainbow around him is called a glory, and it results from light refracting through a mist. An English scientist was fascinated by this so he built a cloud chamber to study it, but by accident someone realized it was even better for looking at what happens to the newly discovered X-rays when they strike a target. And from playing with that for a few years came Atomic Theory, and eventually nuclear fission.

All from someone being fascinated by pretty colors in a cloud.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 24, 2025 08:34 PM (ngbZu)

176 And the right is going after every squirrel thrown out there. It's frustrating.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025

The forums etc are sprinkled with plants. So you don't really know who is going for what.

Posted by: ... at November 24, 2025 08:35 PM (E0p3T)

177 The rainbow flag is atomic!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 24, 2025 08:36 PM (pkeXY)

178 Check out Kilbourne Hole, near Dona Ana, NM.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/ WzFGewA3UzeX3KHTA

Admission is free. I've driven down into it, explored around it some. Interesting place.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 24, 2025 08:30 PM (QVmho)

Not the kind of hole I was talking about...

The rocks sorta look like the formations that make up Devil's Tower. Apparently made by volcanic rock that heats and cools over time, forming what look like near perfect "cuts" in the rock.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 08:36 PM (5ghZ7)

179 https://tinyurl.com/3afnh425

Global Study Exposes Massive Fraud in Mathematics Publishing

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at November 24, 2025 08:37 PM (NkA3/)

180 I've been told I'm halfway there.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 08:30 PM (5ghZ7

The wrong half.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 08:41 PM (FPBvm)

181 Not the kind of hole I was talking about...
Posted by: BurtTC

I know, i've paid to see those too. 10 west german deutsch marks to get in the door, 5dm to raise the window for some number of minutes.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 24, 2025 08:42 PM (QVmho)

182 The rocks sorta look like the formations that make up Devil's Tower. Apparently made by volcanic rock that heats and cools over time, forming what look like near perfect "cuts" in the rock.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 08:36 PM (5ghZ7)

Columnar jointing. Typical of basalt and andesite lava flows. The joints are shrinkage cracks that form as the once-fluid rock hardens and cools. I don't believe there is a State in the mountain west where it cannot be found.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2025 08:42 PM (npFr7)

183 a baby penguin.


===

the best! they are THE BEST!!

Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 08:44 PM (g47mK)

184 Check out Kilbourne Hole, near Dona Ana, NM.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/ WzFGewA3UzeX3KHTA

Admission is free. I've driven down into it, explored around it some. Interesting place.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 24, 2025 08:30 PM (QVmho)

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Interesting. Something to add to a road trip. Thanks!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 08:44 PM (ys6FW)

185 179 https://tinyurl.com/3afnh425

Global Study Exposes Massive Fraud in Mathematics Publishing
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at November 24, 2025

The only real answer is to dump the research university model, which only incentivizes massive fraud. (Since promotions and pay depend on publishing)

The vast majority of “scientific” papers produced in the last 30 years are complete garbage.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 24, 2025 08:47 PM (ngbZu)

186 Global Study Exposes Massive Fraud in Mathematics Publishing
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at November 24, 2025 08:37 PM (NkA3/)

This is a currently realized problem in economics, history, physics and biomedical research as well. There are some people who are claiming that this is a problem in all sciences at the moment, since it pops up whenever they look.

In economics it is not so important, and physics it is so-so, but in biomedicine it means people die.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 08:49 PM (rbvCR)

187 yep , Ozempic . and lots of it!

https://tinyurl.com/bdmu646f

Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 08:50 PM (g47mK)

188 Wolf show love until he bites your face off.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 08:50 PM (glfD5)

189 Columnar jointing. Typical of basalt and andesite lava flows. The joints are shrinkage cracks that form as the once-fluid rock hardens and cools. I don't believe there is a State in the mountain west where it cannot be found.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2025 08:42 PM (npFr7)

Right. Devil's Tower is unique in that all the rock surrounding it has blown away, leaving just the innards.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 08:52 PM (Rn0hu)

190 I know, i've paid to see those too. 10 west german deutsch marks to get in the door, 5dm to raise the window for some number of minutes.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 24, 2025 08:42 PM (QVmho)

I think the price was higher when I was there.

I was too chicken (and cheap) to pay though.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 08:53 PM (Rn0hu)

191 187 yep , Ozempic . and lots of it!

Posted by: runner
----

Repulsive fat no longer cool
Repulsive skinny super hip

Where is the normal you said you'd bring to me, you said you'd give to me? Where is the normal?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 08:55 PM (glfD5)

192 190 I know, i've paid to see those too. 10 west german deutsch marks to get in the door, 5dm to raise the window for some number of minutes.
Posted by: BifBewalski -
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Saw that in Times Square before Giuliani.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 08:56 PM (glfD5)

193 Why does it seem like so many of them overshoot on ozempic? Is it the same reason for bulimia and anorexia? They think any cushion is too much?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 08:57 PM (FPBvm)

194
Moo Goo Gai Pan!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Is this a Howard Borden line? I forget.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 08:59 PM (37Fks)

195
In the last season they "renovated" the Newhart's apartment, and all the scenes lost the magic.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 09:00 PM (37Fks)

196 The only real answer is to dump the research university model, which only incentivizes massive fraud. (Since promotions and pay depend on publishing)

The vast majority of “scientific” papers produced in the last 30 years are complete garbage.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 24, 2025 08:47 PM (ngbZu)

I have heard an argument that there is no "immune system" for research papers, and that peer review is just favors for favors at this point, with endless minutia like punctuation being the focus.

In that a PhD requires something that is unique and adding to knowledge, then the Master degree should be replicating someone else's doctoral work, or some other work in the field the student intends to PhD or graduate in.
Mastery means sufficient knowledge to understand and evaluate in one's own field, and this is the excellent way to demonstrate it.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 09:00 PM (rbvCR)

197 I've paid a LOT more than $30 to look in a hole before.
Posted by: BurtTC
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It's obvious that you don't live in the PDX area.
If all you want to do is look, the going rate is $2-$3 per song at the rack.

Posted by: buddhaha at November 24, 2025 09:00 PM (QCk9o)

198 >>>Today, the quality of academic research is often judged less by its actual scientific contribution and more by commercial metrics such as publication counts, citation numbers, or a journal’s “reputation” (impact factor).
----------

Not only research but quality of care. Is there a medical facility in your area that advertises itself as top in the field, best rated or something like that? It's not from quantifiable medical results it's from survey cards or online survey of patients.
Bah

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 09:02 PM (glfD5)

199 I feel a little stupid that this is new to me. Feels like something I should have remembered from In Search Of...

It's real, therefore teewee is not interested.

If you would come to a TX MoMee, I could talk your ears off about this stuff!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 24, 2025 09:03 PM (ULPxl)

200 "Ice Cream For Crow" is one of my later masterpieces.

Posted by: Zombie Captain Beefheart at November 24, 2025 09:03 PM (zmYmM)

201 I never thought it could be possible to make a suckier version of "Groovy Kind of Love," but Phil Collins sure pulled it off. Man does that ever suck. Wow.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 09:04 PM (BI5O2)

202 ----
Interesting. Something to add to a road trip. Thanks!
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

Be forewarned, the roads leading to it are deep sand. Don't attempt that unless you're in a group with drivers and vehicles equipped for it. It's beautiful, but dangerous to get to as you'll get stranded in an area where the cartels run their drugs through. Although that activity is surely curtailed to some point.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 24, 2025 09:05 PM (QVmho)

203 From the post on X profiles, seems a lot of people don't know whom to follow on X. Good ones here:

Depending on your definition of post-happy, these meet my postquality/postcount ratio.

@alexthechick
@Dave_in_Fla
@Nefertari_25 (Kara McKinney of OANN)
@SarahAHoyt
@EvaVlaar

I have some regional ones I follow, too.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2025 04:16 PM

My AceOfSpadesHQ list on X:

https://bit.ly/4p14sOs

People who either blog or comment here or people/organizations which have been shared in posts here.

I also have one for "Celebrities" which includes anyone from Libs of TikTok to Steve Inman to Wholesome Side of X to Riley Gaines to DataRepublican and MomofDataRepublican to The Critical Drinker to James Woods, etc.

https://bit.ly/3KecYKK

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 24, 2025 09:06 PM (P5BPp)

204 Unknown crashing noise spooks neighborhood.

__________________________________

Anyone have any guesses on this one? The sound is amplified by the weather. Too loud to be your run of the mill teenagers doing something stupid.

Posted by: Orson at November 24, 2025 09:07 PM (dIske)

205 "Anyone have any guesses on this one? The sound is amplified by the weather. Too loud to be your run of the mill teenagers doing something stupid."

Sasquatch. I blame Sasquatch.

Posted by: Z, no not him. A different Z at November 24, 2025 09:10 PM (89Sog)

206 In that a PhD requires something that is unique and adding to knowledge...
Posted by: Kindltot
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I had a friend who was working on his doctorate bitch about his dissertation subject. He had submitted his proposal to his advisor, who rejected it, and required him to narrow his subject considerably, saying that it was so broad, it was removing at least 3 or 4 future dissertations.
"Pushing back the frontiers of knowledge, one silly millimeter at a time," as he poetically put it.
Cultural reference (that will be missed by the under-29 crowd) in the quote.

Posted by: buddhaha at November 24, 2025 09:12 PM (QCk9o)

207 Sasquatch. I blame Sasquatch.
Posted by: Z, no not him. A different Z at November 24, 2025 09:10 PM (89Sog)
____________________

Heh...you're probably right. I thought maybe there is a warehouse next to the neighborhood and someone was using a fork lift to bang dirt off of metal pallets. Still, seems way to loud for that. Maybe a Diesel Hammer, better known as a steel Pile Driver.

Posted by: Orson at November 24, 2025 09:15 PM (dIske)

208 Be forewarned, the roads leading to it are deep sand. Don't attempt that unless you're in a group with drivers and vehicles equipped for it. It's beautiful, but dangerous to get to as you'll get stranded in an area where the cartels run their drugs through. Although that activity is surely curtailed to some point.

Posted by: BifBewalski

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Thanks for the warning. We have 4x4 and experience near the border. We're not likely to be in a group to help save our butts, though. May have to give it a miss.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 09:17 PM (ys6FW)

209 The children of the night,
What music they make.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 09:18 PM (77rzZ)

210 Caw, Caw Caw!

Posted by: Lesbian Seagull at November 24, 2025 09:19 PM (Q+gd/)

211 Where’d everboddy go?

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 09:25 PM (77rzZ)

212 >> It’s already dark. Like dark dark.

Patience. At ~35N, it's close to the window of earliest sunset, which will occur on the Dec. 5th. For Seattle, that will be around the 10th.

For all practical purposes that window begins Nov 30 here, where the sunset times won't change but by a few seconds, staying in the 5:17PM window. And then, sunset gets later, even as the days get shorter until the solstice.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 09:26 PM (w6EFb)

213 Great. I show up on the thread and everybody else leaves.

Guess I’ll start singing show tunes, then…

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 09:27 PM (77rzZ)

214 Listen to them, children of the night. What music they make.

Posted by: Archer at November 24, 2025 09:29 PM (YGRGv)

215 The time change has kicked my butt this year. Only 8:30 central and it feels like midnight.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 09:29 PM (ys6FW)

216 Guess I’ll start singing show tunes, then…
Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 09:27 PM (77rzZ)

Can you do Normandy out of Once Upon a Mattress?

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 09:29 PM (rbvCR)

217 “There’s no business
Like show business,
Like no business
I know!”

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 09:29 PM (77rzZ)

218 216 “Bravo, bravo, bravissimo!”

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 09:31 PM (77rzZ)

219 “You’ve got to pick pocket or two, Boys,
You’ve got to pick a pocket or two!”

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 09:33 PM (77rzZ)

220 213 Great. I show up on the thread and everybody else leaves.

Guess I’ll start singing show tunes, then…
Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 09:27 PM (77rzZ)

If you dance around in seamed stockings and garters, none of the morons will ever leave.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 24, 2025 09:34 PM (6Bc88)

221 212 >> It’s already dark. Like dark dark.

Patience. At ~35N, it's close to the window of earliest sunset, which will occur on the Dec. 5th. For Seattle, that will be around the 10th.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 09:26 PM (w6EFb)

publius, I enjoy reading your posts...always interesting.

Posted by: Joemarine at November 24, 2025 09:35 PM (y171U)

222 For all practical purposes that window begins Nov 30 here, where the sunset times won't change but by a few seconds, staying in the 5:17PM window. And then, sunset gets later, even as the days get shorter until the solstice.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 09:26 PM (w6EFb)

We lose about six minutes a day until the end of December. The sun doesn't get above the trees at Chez tcn. Luckily the trees are covered with hoar frost and look marvelous in the sun, such as it is.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 24, 2025 09:35 PM (6Bc88)

223 “The hills are alive
With the sound of music,
With songs they have sung
For a thousand years!”

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 09:35 PM (77rzZ)

224 Of course, in Barrow, the sun set a few days ago and won't come up until March. Consider yourselves lucky, I guess.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 24, 2025 09:36 PM (6Bc88)

225 "These vagabond shoes / Are longin' to stray"
"I wanna wake up / In a city that doesn't sleep"
"And find I'm king of the hill / Top of the heap"
"If I can make it there / I'll make it anywhere / It's up to you, New York, New York"

Posted by: Frank at November 24, 2025 09:37 PM (XeU6L)

226 223 “The hills are alive
With the sound of music,
With songs they have sung
For a thousand years!”
Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 09:35 PM (77rzZ)

Did I see you feeling up Julie Andrews' backside just there?

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 24, 2025 09:37 PM (6Bc88)

227 224 Sunlight is sooooo overrated.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 09:37 PM (77rzZ)

228 It's up to you, New York, New York"
Posted by: Frank at November 24, 2025 09:37 PM (XeU6L)

I put on Frank yesterday while DH was watching football. AFTER the Packers won, of course. We prefer Frank to the announcers on tv. Makes it a much better afternoon.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 24, 2025 09:38 PM (6Bc88)

229 226 Young Julie Andrews. Hubba hubba.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 09:38 PM (77rzZ)

230 We lose about six minutes a day until the end of December. The sun doesn't get above the trees at Chez tcn. Luckily the trees are covered with hoar frost and look marvelous in the sun, such as it is.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK

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Do you find that challenging? The lack of sunlight? Is it something you grow accustomed to?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 09:39 PM (ys6FW)

231 Do you find that challenging? The lack of sunlight? Is it something you grow accustomed to?
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 09:39 PM (ys6FW)

I grew up with it, so it's normal. I have always slept more in the winter than the summer. Transplants up here have some issues, particularly in the summer when it doesn't get dark, so they put aluminum foil over their bedroom windows so they can sleep, but I have never had an issue with that. DH has adjusted after 14 years.

For me, it was weird in the Lower 48 being both dark and hot at the same time. That doesn't happen up here. And I always thought I was late during the summer, because it was getting dark, which was weird.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 24, 2025 09:43 PM (6Bc88)

232 “To life, to life, L’chaim!
L’chaim, l’chaim, to life!”

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 09:44 PM (77rzZ)

233 >> reading your posts...always interesting.

If you want to see this for your location, timeanddate is the best source there is, every accurate times. You can put your exact coordinates into this URL like so:

"www.timeanddate.com/moon/@Lat, Long",

With both in decimal degrees, with positive being north for latitude, and negative being west for long. Earliest sunset and latest sunrise are a window around the solstice. That window gets tighter at higher latitudes. Things get interesting between the tropics, where it gets a bit more complex.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 09:44 PM (w6EFb)

234 Crashing noise? I bet it's something like an air chisel being used on a dumpster.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 24, 2025 09:45 PM (8QVSJ)

235 232 “To life, to life, L’chaim!
L’chaim, l’chaim, to life!”
Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 09:44 PM (77rzZ)

Get off the damned roof before you fall off and kill yourself!

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 24, 2025 09:45 PM (6Bc88)

236 @WallStreetApes .

Lara Logan interviews Former CIA operations officer Gary Berntsen who explains how elections are being stolen in America

He describes there are teams of statisticians, mathematicians, and hackers who map out every county and identify where margins can be quietly adjusted

Different techniques are used in each location so nothing matches in a recount. When a 70-30 county becomes 68-32, nobody notices. But when you add up these differences across an entire state, those tiny amounts of fraud decide outcomes

Both former CIA operations officer Gary Berntsen and author Ralph Pezzullo explain the strategy. They explain they don't flip the big blue cities. Instead they shave votes in the places no one ever audits


https://tinyurl.com/mrx89s9r

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 09:45 PM (glfD5)

237 I was watching a travel show about Finland, and locally grown produce was brought up. You might lose a lot of sunshine during the winter, but make it up when the lights are on 23/7.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 24, 2025 09:45 PM (gm9Sb)

238 We lose about six minutes a day until the end of December. The sun doesn't get above the trees at Chez tcn. Luckily the trees are covered with hoar frost and look marvelous in the sun, such as it is.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK

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Do you find that challenging? The lack of sunlight? Is it something you grow accustomed to?
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 09:39 PM (ys6FW)

That was one of the things I loved about living in Alaska, lo, these many years ago. The extremes. Very little sun, followed by nearly endless sun.

The earth fascinates me.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 24, 2025 09:46 PM (0aYVJ)

239 Its too bad the fiddler was probably a victim of the Dekulakization program.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 09:46 PM (zZu0s)

240 235 Sorry, can’t. I sold him a horse, but delivered a mule.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 09:47 PM (77rzZ)

241
Arrghh, I copied and pasted the Moon page, not the sun. The sun page will be this:

"www.timeanddate.com/sun/@Lat, Long",

Once you land on that with Lat,Long entered, the Moon, sun, and planets pages will be for those exact coordinates.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 09:48 PM (w6EFb)

242 237 I was watching a travel show about Finland, and locally grown produce was brought up. You might lose a lot of sunshine during the winter, but make it up when the lights are on 23/7.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 24, 2025 09:45 PM (gm9Sb)

I grow a lot of stuff up here in a few short months. Any root crop grows like crazy, but some stuff needs more heat, so I grow it in the greenhouse. Also, various veggies are better for long days than others, and after a while you figure out which are best. Green beans have been tricky but I think I have found the right seed for next year. Corn or pumpkins or watermelon is nearly impossible without a high tunnel, which is more space than I'm willing to give. But I grew a shit-ton of tomatoes, peppers, and cukes in the greenhouse, along with tons of herbs.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 24, 2025 09:48 PM (6Bc88)

243 That was one of the things I loved about living in Alaska, lo, these many years ago. The extremes. Very little sun, followed by nearly endless sun.

The earth fascinates me.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 24, 2025 09:46 PM (0aYVJ)

We live here for the summers. Never leave AK in the summer. Winter is for travel.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 24, 2025 09:49 PM (6Bc88)

244 They explain they don't flip the big blue cities. Instead they shave votes in the places no one ever audits
Posted by: Braenyard

You know what this needs, another House resolution against "socialism".

Posted by: also, a few more $100M notes for Ukraine can't hurt at November 24, 2025 09:50 PM (gKWVE)

245 For me, it was weird in the Lower 48 being both dark and hot at the same time. That doesn't happen up here. And I always thought I was late during the summer, because it was getting dark, which was weird.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK
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Thanks. Alaska is absolutely fascinating. I would love to see one day.
Yes, it is hot and dark every night in TX summer. You get used to it. I suppose you get used to where you live.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 09:51 PM (ys6FW)

246 I think that I could live in a climate that was almost perpetually cloudy/rainy, and be happy.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 09:51 PM (77rzZ)

247 Thanks. Alaska is absolutely fascinating. I would love to see one day.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 09:51 PM (ys6FW)

We are right here. Door's open.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 24, 2025 09:52 PM (6Bc88)

248 246 I think that I could live in a climate that was almost perpetually cloudy/rainy, and be happy.
Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 09:51 PM (77rzZ)

Ach. I grew up in Phoenix and loved it - 200 days a year with no clouds whatsoever. Well that’s the he desert for ya.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 24, 2025 09:53 PM (ngbZu)

249 We are right here. Door's open.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK

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It may be our 30th anniversary trip in 2027. Fingers crossed.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 09:54 PM (ys6FW)

250 246 I think that I could live in a climate that was almost perpetually cloudy/rainy, and be happy.

Posted by: Bulg

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Isn't there a musical about singin in the rain?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 09:55 PM (ys6FW)

251 About that time, ainit?

Posted by: mindful webworker - a temporal anomoly at November 24, 2025 09:56 PM (LaTF/)

252 Isn't Monday night the orphan ONT? Are we not self-sufficient?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 09:57 PM (ys6FW)

253 233 >>If you want to see this for your location, timeanddate is the best source there is, every accurate times. You can put your exact coordinates into this URL like so:

"www.timeanddate.com/moon/@Lat, Long",

With both in decimal degrees, with positive being north for latitude, and negative being west for long. Earliest sunset and latest sunrise are a window around the solstice. That window gets tighter at higher latitudes. Things get interesting between the tropics, where it gets a bit more complex.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 24, 2025 09:44 PM (w6EFb)

Yes thanks. That web site is my home page.

Posted by: Joemarine at November 24, 2025 09:57 PM (y171U)

254 248 Having grown up by the Great Lakes, I could never live in the effin’ desert. I can visit there, but for permanent habitation, give me water.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 09:58 PM (77rzZ)

255 248 I had money down on a trailer outside of Yuma awhile back, and then Biden happened. The place was damn near 10 miles from the border and I got out of the deal with no hard feelings. Anytime I'm out there I feel relief from the worsening arthritis, and I think a final trip is coming up. One bedroom park model trailer, quiet park, and a pet tortoise keeping an eye on the grounds. Yeah, I could be happy.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 24, 2025 09:59 PM (gm9Sb)

256 ONT Mis Hum

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 10:00 PM (ys6FW)

257 "Isn't there a musical about singin in the rain?
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at November 24, 2025 09:55 PM (ys6FW)"


A Clockwork Orange

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at November 24, 2025 10:01 PM (/HDaX)

258 The meteor crater was featured prominently in the 1984 film Starman. The film location notes from that movie state that it is 3900 feet in diameter and 560 feet deep. Have none of you ever watched that movie before?

Posted by: Will at November 24, 2025 10:45 PM (epx/o)

259 I likewise was going to bring up Carpenter's Starman.

I guess some of us are just a little more 29 than others...

Posted by: Captain Comic at November 24, 2025 11:52 PM (bo8Ja)

260 I feel a little stupid that Meteor Crater in Arizona is new to me.

Or - How to tell people you’ve never done the Route 66 thing.

Posted by: Pete at November 25, 2025 08:26 AM (VTwlZ)

Trump: I'm Ending the "Temporary" Protected Status of Somalis Immigrants, Which Has Now Been "Temporary" for (Checks Watch) Thirty Years

This is prompted by Somalis treating the US as if it is merchant ship to pirate and sack. As mentioned on Friday, Somali fraudsters are bilking the federal government for millions and sending it off to the ISIS-offshoot terrorist group Al-Shabaab. As one analyst pointed out, the US taxpayer is now the biggest funder of Al-Shabaab.

Founded in 2016, Feeding Our Future was a small Minnesota nonprofit that sponsored daycares and after-school programs to enroll in the Federal Child Nutrition Program. The organizations that Feeding Our Future sponsored were primarily owned and operated by members of Minnesota's Somali community, according to two former state officials with connections to law enforcement.

In 2019, Feeding Our Future received $3.4 million in federal funding disbursed by the state. In the months after the Covid-19 pandemic began, however, the nonprofit rapidly increased its number of sponsored sites. Using fake meal counts, doctored attendance records, and fabricated invoices, the perpetrators of the fraud ring claimed to be serving thousands of meals a day, seven days a week, to underprivileged children. In 2021, Feeding Our Future received nearly $200 million in funding.

In reality, the money was being used to fund lavish lifestyles, purchase luxury vehicles, and buy real estate in the United States, Turkey, and Kenya. In 2020, Minnesota officials raised concerns about the nonprofit's rapid expansion. In response, the group filed a lawsuit alleging racial discrimination related to outstanding site applications, noting that Feeding Our Future "caters to . . . foreign nationals."

"That's the standard operating playbook for that cohort: when in doubt, claim racism, claim bias," says David Gaither, a former Minnesota state senator and a nonprofit leader. "Even if the facts don't point to that, it allows for many folks in the middle, or on the center-Left, to stay silent."

Gaither believes the mainstream media, alongside Minnesota's Democratic establishment, have long turned a blind eye to fraud within the Somali community.
This, in turn, allowed the problem to metastasize. "The media does not want to put a light on this," Gaither said. "And if you're a politician, it's a significant disadvantage for you to alienate the Somali community. If you don't win the Somali community, you can't win Minneapolis. And if you don't win Minneapolis, you can't win the state. End of story."

The fraudsters have leveraged their growing political influence to cultivate close ties with Minnesota's elected officials. Several individuals involved in the Feeding Our Future scheme donated to, or appeared publicly with, Ilhan Omar, the Somali-born congresswoman from Minneapolis. Omar's deputy district director, Ali Isse, advocated on behalf of Feeding Our Future. Omar Fateh, a former state senator who recently ran for Minneapolis mayor, lobbied Governor Tim Walz in support of the program. And one of the accused, Abdi Nur Salah, served as a senior aide to Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey.

There is $300 million in identified, known fraud. Who knows what the actual number is.

Get 'em out.

President Donald Trump's pledge to terminate temporary legal protections for Somalis living in Minnesota is triggering fear in the state's deeply-rooted immigrant community, along with doubts about whether the White House has the legal authority to enact the directive as described.

In a Truth Social post late Friday, Trump said he would "immediately" strip Somali residents in Minnesota of Temporary Protected Status, a legal safeguard against deportation for immigrants from certain countries.

The announcement drew immediate pushback from some state leaders and immigration experts, who characterized Trump's declaration as a legally dubious effort to sow fear and suspicion toward Minnesota's Somali community, the largest in the nation.

"There's no legal mechanism that allows the president to terminate protected status for a particular community or state that he has beef with," said Heidi Altman, vice president of policy at the National Immigration Law Center.


"This is Trump doing what he always does: demagoguing immigrants without justification or evidence and using that demagoguery in an attempt to take away important life-saving protections," she added.

...

"I am a citizen and so are (the) majority of Somalis in America," Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Somali, said in a social media post Friday. "Good luck celebrating a policy change that really doesn't have much impact on the Somalis you love to hate."

Still, advocates warned the move could inflame hate against a community at a time of rising Islamophobia.

"This is not just a bureaucratic change," said Jaylani Hussein, president of the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. "It is a political attack on the Somali and Muslim community driven by Islamophobic and hateful rhetoric."

Posted by: Ace at 06:00 PM




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1 Nope

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at November 24, 2025 06:03 PM (VE6XX)

2 driven by Islamophobic and hateful rhetoric.

In a nice car.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 24, 2025 06:04 PM (CULda)

3 Uh, you realize that ending TPS affects only about 700 people and is scheduled to end 3/14/26 anyway, right?

Posted by: lurk at November 24, 2025 06:04 PM (7IOVT)

4 I posted earlier about that Somali Sherriff in Minnesota that gave a speech in his native language that said that he served Somalis first and foremost.

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 06:05 PM (krQz2)

5 "This is not just a bureaucratic change," said Jaylani Hussein, president of the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. "It is a political attack on the Somali and Muslim community driven by Islamophobic and hateful rhetoric."
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Well, like, that's your opinion man.

Works for me.

Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 06:05 PM (TN0g+)

6 The only protection needed is us from them

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2025 06:05 PM (+qU29)

7 If only we could deport Diaper Head, since her "marriage" to her brother is pretty well documented now.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 24, 2025 06:06 PM (Dg7ng)

8 When it comes to Western Civ, CAIR doesn't care.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 24, 2025 06:06 PM (0sNs1)

9 Link:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/
archives/2025/11/
panic-over-somali-tps-ending.php

Posted by: lurk at November 24, 2025 06:06 PM (7IOVT)

10 Meanwhile in Afar province in Ethiopia, which bordered northern Somalia, a volcano just erupted.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 24, 2025 06:06 PM (gKWVE)

11 Somali

The wine waiter at a nice restaurant?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 24, 2025 06:06 PM (CULda)

12 The only reason Omar's family is in the US is because they had relatives that were the losers in a coup.

Omar herself has referred to the President of Somali as "our President".

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 06:06 PM (krQz2)

13 3 Sure Jan. Sure. You sound like one of those foreign fags pretending to be American I've heard about on the interwebs.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 24, 2025 06:07 PM (Dg7ng)

14 I posted earlier about that Somali Sherriff in Minnesota that gave a speech in his native language that said that he served Somalis first and foremost.
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Should I go ahead and let the tubes warm up? The amps sound better after they've been on for a little bit.

Posted by: E. Clapton at November 24, 2025 06:07 PM (TN0g+)

15 Denied!!
- Judge Andre J. Fucktard Jr.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 06:07 PM (HW6XE)

16 The brother lover should be deported for falsifying documents.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 24, 2025 06:07 PM (vZUXb)

17 My lawyer hate was willowed . Probably for the best.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 24, 2025 06:08 PM (KDPiq)

18
...advocates warned the move could inflame hate against a community at a time of rising Islamophobia.

Funny how fake "islamophobia" is always fake "rising?"

When will it reach its crescendo? Ever?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 06:08 PM (9h7/m)

19 Feeding the Future...

Hmmm, something tells me if these people take over, our children, grandchildren, great and beyond grandchildren will be starved to death.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 06:08 PM (2jpkJ)

20 Meanwhile in Afar province in Ethiopia, which bordered northern Somalia, a volcano just erupted.
Posted by: gKWVE at November 24, 2025 06:06 PM

To be fair, that's a far ways away.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 24, 2025 06:09 PM (0sNs1)

21 Now who gonna feed my keeds?

Posted by: Mishavious Tierra Jones at November 24, 2025 06:09 PM (vFG9F)

22 This is another 90:10 issue.

He is doing it in a way that has resulted in lawsuits in the past. We will see more lawsuits.

That will make the entire left/media/democrats defend a bunch of filthy foreigners stealing money from us.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 24, 2025 06:09 PM (8VwBr)

23 The Somalis have been figuratively raping the Minnesota and federal taxpayers for years.

They think you're easy marks.

They're right.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2025 06:09 PM (lkBjo)

24 I’ve seen some footage of Somalis in Minneapolis. And yeah they are feeding themselves. Going back for seconds and thirds it seems.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 06:09 PM (HW6XE)

25 please, stop. I can only get so excited.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 06:09 PM (rbvCR)

26 "If you don't win the Somali community, you can't win Minneapolis. And if you don't win Minneapolis, you can't win the state. End of story."


And thus goes the first successful and permanent occupation of a portion of the United States by a foreign power. Well done, Dems.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at November 24, 2025 06:09 PM (CwhoI)

27 Its amazing how fuckjng much money gets wasted.

Libs of TikTok also had a Minnesota sheriff who spoke at a press conference that his first and foremost job was to protext Somalis.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 06:09 PM (zZu0s)

28 The Somalis have been figuratively raping the Minnesota and federal taxpayers for years.

They think you're easy marks.

They're right.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2025 06:09 PM (lkBjo)

It’s not just them to be fair. Every immigrant group has been doing this for the past 40 years.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 06:10 PM (HW6XE)

29 Can anyone tell me one contribution Somalis make to the US?

Just one.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2025 06:10 PM (viF8m)

30 And if I may make a controversial statement, I for one would like to see not a single penny of American aid going to the nation of Somalia from here on.

Does that make me Anti-Sommelier?

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 06:11 PM (VBcFa)

31 They're right.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2025 06:09 PM

They're not wrong, you know. > They're right.

Posted by: AoSHQ Style Guide at November 24, 2025 06:11 PM (0sNs1)

32 So many new nics.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 06:11 PM (zZu0s)

33 Wilowed:
Men really do lose dozens of IQ points around fake, pushed up tits.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 06:05 PM (2jpkJ)

No one loves a good pair of fake boobs than me. That is my point: these are bad.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 06:12 PM (zZu0s)

34 This is good politics, but I have no faith in the system.

I want to seem them all deported. The immigrants, the naturalized, the born in USA to immigrants, the fucking filthy politicians of any race creed or color who allowed and participated in this.

The West will not survive if we continue under the delusion that we can have equality and freedom extended to foreigners intent on plundering and conquering us.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 24, 2025 06:12 PM (8VwBr)

35 please, stop. I can only get so excited.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 06:09 PM

The Bob Dole says "Call me.".

Posted by: zombie The Bob Dole at November 24, 2025 06:12 PM (0sNs1)

36 32 So many new nics.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 06:11 PM (zZu0s)

How dare ace’s blog grow? This must be stopped at once. 🧐

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 06:12 PM (HW6XE)

37 A hearty thank you to old man Bush for starting this clusterf**k in 1991. Always a good idea to import tens of thousands of people from a failed state and expect them to be responsible citizens. And hearty eff u to Bubba , Bush II , Barky and Mushbrain for keeping it going and increasing the mess

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 24, 2025 06:13 PM (bfwj/)

38 Should have been done day one. Right Marco?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 24, 2025 06:13 PM (abIsI)

39 "So many new nics.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone"

WHAT YOU CALL ME???

Posted by: Mishavious Tierra Jones at November 24, 2025 06:13 PM (vFG9F)

40 Send the somalis and any other mooselims like Mammydami back and ban any further immigration from mooselim countries, india and canada.

They are all 6th century savages.

Posted by: Send Them All Back at November 24, 2025 06:13 PM (R/m4+)

41 How dare ace’s blog grow? This must be stopped at once. 🧐
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 06:12 PM (HW6XE)

Exactly we want the right kind of riff raff around here!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 06:13 PM (zZu0s)

42 A Somali cop can shoot an unarmed white woman for absolutely no reason and get basically a slap on the wrist . (Served 3 years)

This while Chauvin gets 22 years .

Posted by: the way I see it at November 24, 2025 06:13 PM (KDPiq)

43 "If you don't win the Somali community, you can't win Minneapolis. And if you don't win Minneapolis, you can't win the state. End of story."


And thus goes the first successful and permanent occupation of a portion of the United States by a foreign power. Well done, Dems.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at November 24, 2025 06:09 PM (CwhoI)

Sounds like it's time to start building that wall.

Start at the eastern edge of the Dakotas, all across the top of Iowa, and the entire western edge of Wisconsin.

And put mines in Lake Superior.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 06:14 PM (VBcFa)

44 "If you don't win the Somali community, you can't win Minneapolis. And if you don't win Minneapolis, you can't win the state. End of story."
Posted by: Citizen Cake

I'm willing to give it a shot.

Posted by: mikeski at November 24, 2025 06:14 PM (nhCoE)

45 A culture with an IQ of about 45 takes over parts of the US interior.

Weather or not the US government had a hand in this (and they did) does not bode well for the "typical" American. Who can't compete, on apparently any level with retards.

Added to my pile of DGAS.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 24, 2025 06:14 PM (NwnyJ)

46 Read in last few days Minnesota taxpayers are the biggest fundraising for Muslim war group in Somalia

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2025 06:15 PM (+qU29)

47 29 Somalis are uniquely awful in that I can't think of anything positive to say about them AT ALL. Like ever. Even the Pashtuns of Afghanistan (a people so violent Pakistan puts up walls to keep them out) created the Durrani Empire, which was predatory but also well organized.

The Somalis are like the Albanians of Africa, except that the Albanians at least had Skanderbeg, who was pretty awesome.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 24, 2025 06:15 PM (Dg7ng)

48 45 A culture with an IQ of about 45 takes over parts of the US interior.


Posted by: Martini Farmer
----------------

How stoopid are we for allowing it?

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 24, 2025 06:15 PM (8VwBr)

49 34 This is good politics, but I have no faith in the system.

I want to seem them all deported. The immigrants, the naturalized, the born in USA to immigrants, the fucking filthy politicians of any race creed or color who allowed and participated in this.

The West will not survive if we continue under the delusion that we can have equality and freedom extended to foreigners intent on plundering and conquering us.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)

When we have people like Tom Homan, who can't get out in front of his twisted tongue in charge, the situation will get progressively worse.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 24, 2025 06:15 PM (abIsI)

50 If it's not that big of a deal, then why is it a big deal?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 06:15 PM (zZu0s)

51 What about Maine and Ohio? They have Somalis.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 24, 2025 06:15 PM (pkeXY)

52 I forgot about the lady the policeman shot after she called them for a disturbance. It was so random.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 06:17 PM (zZu0s)

53 51 Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 24, 2025 06:15 PM (pkeXY)

The Somalis and Haitians turned Clark County in Ohio red....

and I called it here before it happened...they killed 1/2 of the swans at Snyder Park.

Posted by: sven at November 24, 2025 06:17 PM (MUJd1)

54 49 "When we have people like Tom Homan, who can't get out in front of his twisted tongue in charge, the situation will get progressively worse."

What are you suddenly sperging about Tom Homan for? Where did that come from?

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 24, 2025 06:17 PM (Dg7ng)

55 No one loves a good pair of fake boobs than me. That is my point: these are bad.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 06:12 PM (zZu0s)

There are no good fake boobs.

God gave you what He gave you.

Look, my peener is only 11 inches long, it would be barbaric to me (and dishonest to teh laydees) if I were to add a few more inches on just to make it average.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 06:18 PM (VBcFa)

56 ***a legal safeguard against deportation for immigrants from certain countries.***
---

Deport, deport, deport them all. Deport all of them.
Don't deport Burt, he's just in a bad mood.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 06:18 PM (glfD5)

57 If it's not that big of a deal, then why is it a big deal?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 06:15 PM

So, you're saying the big deal isn't the big deal, but rather the big deal about the big deal is the big deal?

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at November 24, 2025 06:18 PM (0sNs1)

58 Uh, you realize that ending TPS affects only about 700 people and is scheduled to end 3/14/26 anyway, right?

Trump is doing this to con the rubes, troll the Left and force another District Tyrant to file a nationwide TRS.

This is just another form of shit posting.

Laugh at the memes then wait for the next one.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 24, 2025 06:18 PM (a4flb)

59 54 Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 24, 2025 06:17 PM (Dg7ng)

Evidently if Homan was Marcus Tullius Cicero then the democrats would meekly go, "ah well spoken Tommy, we surrender!"

Posted by: sven at November 24, 2025 06:18 PM (MUJd1)

60 53 Clark County OH has been red since 2004 . . .

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 24, 2025 06:19 PM (Dg7ng)

61 3 Uh, you realize that ending TPS affects only about 700 people and is scheduled to end 3/14/26 anyway, right?
Posted by: lurk at November 24, 2025 06:04 PM (7IOVT)

9 Link:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/
archives/2025/11/
panic-over-somali-tps-ending.php
Posted by: lurk at November 24, 2025 06:06 PM (7IOVT)

Thanks!

Posted by: m at November 24, 2025 06:19 PM (RuTUS)

62 Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 06:18 PM (VBcFa)

Right.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 06:19 PM (zZu0s)

63 OT: President Donald Trump and his administration are preparing to officially classify state-funded abortion, gender transition procedures for minors, and a host of other left-wing policies as human rights violations.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 24, 2025 06:20 PM (abIsI)

64 47 Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 24, 2025 06:15 PM (Dg7ng)

On the one hand you want to help them because "starvation as tacit policy is a crime against humanity" and then you look at their "I am the captain now!" gaze and say "why in the fuck did we engage in Gothic Serpent again?"

Posted by: sven at November 24, 2025 06:20 PM (MUJd1)

65 Somali's damn near wrecked the suburban school system in which my wife used to teach and later, in which she was an Executive Director. They didn't need to present any documents, medical records, IDs, etc. and hod the world laid out for them.

Much, much, MUCH higher proportions of Special Needs, IEPs, and discipline problems than any other grouping of students.

They took over, and destroyed some of the local schools and neighborhoods. Columbus never recovered.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2025 06:20 PM (cYBz/)

66 They're not wrong, you know. > They're right.
Posted by: AoSHQ Style Guide at November 24, 2025 06:11 PM (0sNs1)
====

No, they're right. You're wrong.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2025 06:20 PM (CA6zO)

67 >>>When we have people like Tom Homan, who can't get out in front of his twisted tongue in charge, the situation will get progressively worse.
Posted by: Maj. Healey
-----------

Earth to starship, come in starship.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 06:21 PM (glfD5)

68 3 Uh, you realize that ending TPS affects only about 700 people and is scheduled to end 3/14/26 anyway, right?
Posted by: lurk at November 24, 2025 06:04 PM (7IOVT)

Right before St. Patrick's Day? Always after me lucky Somalis.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 24, 2025 06:21 PM (wVcYX)

69 So, you're saying the big deal isn't the big deal, but rather the big deal about the big deal is the big deal?
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at November 24, 2025 06:18 PM (0sNs1)

The big deal is a big deal because you make it a big deal. Without the sturm and drang, it's a small deal (aka Burt's Penis.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 06:21 PM (zZu0s)

70 from the Powerline article:

But I think it’s fair to conclude that there is *zero* chance Trump will *extend* TPS for those from Somalia

That's the Bigger Story.

Posted by: m at November 24, 2025 06:21 PM (RuTUS)

71
The West will not survive if we continue under the delusion that we can have equality and freedom extended to foreigners intent on plundering and conquering us.

99.99% of those in elected office want the West to collapses in total humility and subjugation. They just want to steal as much as they can in the interim thinking that they can jet off with their generational wealth while those who remain are fighting off the cannibals.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 24, 2025 06:22 PM (a4flb)

72 Evidently if Homan was Marcus Tullius Cicero then the democrats would meekly go, "ah well spoken Tommy, we surrender!"

Posted by: sven at November 24, 2025 06:18 PM (MUJd1)
---
We have to make the perfect the enemy of the good, cause reasons.

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 06:22 PM (krQz2)

73 Minnesota changed their state flag last year...and some people say it has some resemblance to the Puntland region of Somalia's flag. Comparison:

https://shorturl.at/beJmM

Coincidence? Oh, Ilhan Omar comes from that region of Somalia, too, in another coincidence.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 24, 2025 06:22 PM (ycI94)

74 I know in my part of the world, a medium-large midwestern city, we have had Ethiopian shops, cafes and restaurants popping up like mushrooms over the last five years. Coincidence, I'm sure.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at November 24, 2025 06:22 PM (CwhoI)

75 64 Apparently it took so many hundreds of them to kill a handful of Delta Force guys in 1993 because they were all high as fuck on a mild stimulant called Khat, so they would use the highly effective tactic of shooting their AKs one-handed while shielding their dilated pupils. A platoon of well-formed Deltas with air dropped supplies could have wiped out an entire city's worth of such "people".

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 24, 2025 06:22 PM (Dg7ng)

76 58 Uh, you realize that ending TPS affects only about 700 people and is scheduled to end 3/14/26 anyway, right?
------------

700? It's a start.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 06:23 PM (glfD5)

77 Deport Moar

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 24, 2025 06:23 PM (xcxpd)

78 > "I am a citizen and so are (the) majority of Somalis in America," Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Somali, said in a social media post Friday. "Good luck celebrating a policy

It turns out that naturalized citizenship can be revoked if it's shown you lied on your immigration paperwork.

Send us a postcard from Mogadishu, honey.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 24, 2025 06:23 PM (IG3/x)

79 Just looked this up. The unemployment rate for working aged Somalis in Minnesota is a smidge under 35%.

But, I had to look up the statistics myself because the political hack AI provided the politically expedient figure (only those looking for work)....and said it's 11%.

So, the # of working aged Somalis in Minnesota is about 39,000. 35% of 39,000 is 13,650.

13,650 Somalis of working age ain't doing nuttin.

Posted by: Orson at November 24, 2025 06:23 PM (dIske)

80 " ... deeply-rooted immigrant community, ... "

embedded like ticks

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 24, 2025 06:23 PM (Cjt/F)

81 Don't deport Burt, he's just in a bad mood.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 06:18 PM (glfD5)

You've never seen me in a bad mood.

I don't think you could handle it.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 06:24 PM (VBcFa)

82 Homan doesn't even live with his family because he gets so many threats. I think he's doing a great job. More importantly, so does Trump.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2025 06:24 PM (viF8m)

83 Let's not forget Homan bailed on Trump in 2018. Guys a loud mouthed gasbag that doesn't get much accomplished. We should be at 10 million deported right now. Prediction: He's gone by EOY.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 24, 2025 06:24 PM (abIsI)

84 From Insty:

In Minnesota, a Somali born Sheriff declares that he is there for Somali's first and American born LE are foreigners.

https://tinyurl.com/yc25jwvt

Fabulous.

Posted by: Cheri at November 24, 2025 06:24 PM (oiNtH)

85 In what universe does temporary mean 30 years? This should have been done on Trump 1.0.


I get why he didn't but now he has every justification to get rid of them. Problem is everyone that came to the US 30 years ago has 15 kids and 35 grandkids that are citizens because of birthright citizenship. That will gum up the works and not a single one of them will be deported.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 24, 2025 06:24 PM (0N4FZ)

86 Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 06:18 PM (VBcFa)

Right.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 06:19 PM (zZu0s)

Don't judge me for my handicap!

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 06:24 PM (VBcFa)

87 OT: President Donald Trump and his administration are preparing to officially classify state-funded abortion, gender transition procedures for minors, and a host of other left-wing policies as human rights violations.

More conning the rubes, trolling the Left and forcing a District Tyrant to issue a nationwide TRS.

We went from Winning to perpetual shit posting.

Still beats 'resident Otto Pen

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 24, 2025 06:24 PM (a4flb)

88 77 Deport Moar
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo a

This.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 24, 2025 06:24 PM (abIsI)

89 Ilhan Omar mouthing off did not do these immigrants any favors.

Posted by: m at November 24, 2025 06:25 PM (RuTUS)

90
Gloom and Doom here today is thicker than CBD's syrup.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 06:25 PM (glfD5)

91 60 Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 24, 2025 06:19 PM (Dg7ng)

2008, in 2012 New Carlisle and Park Layne had Romney win by ~ 1100 votes....

2016 Trump blew Grammy's doors off because Ohio non large metro blacks loved trump and spoke openly about him being "an honorary brother."

My family lives there, given my brother left Greene County and moved to dad's county....

2024's GOP momentum returning was largely due to democrat guests, the lunatic Springfield Mayor pissed a lot of people off.

Wanna know how I know Biden cheated his ass off in Cleveland et al in 2020? In SPringfield Trump won with bigger numbers than 2016....somehow only Cleveland and Columbus were "enthusiastic" for Captain Cognition.

Posted by: sven at November 24, 2025 06:25 PM (MUJd1)

92 The disparity in the charges and sentencing between the Somali Cop and Chauvin and his co-defendants is a huge miscarriage of Justice since both occurred in Minneapolis. The cops standing around controlling the crowd got sentenced to more time than the Somali cop.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 24, 2025 06:25 PM (KDPiq)

93 Don't deport Burt, he's just in a bad mood.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 06:18 PM (glfD5)

You've never seen me in a bad mood.

I don't think you could handle it.
------

Wait, are you saying we wouldn't like you when you're angry?

Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 06:26 PM (TN0g+)

94 Gloom and Doom here today is thicker than CBD's syrup.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 06:25 PM (glfD5)

This. Its getting a bit annoying.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 06:26 PM (zZu0s)

95 Uh, you realize that ending TPS affects only about 700 people and is scheduled to end 3/14/26 anyway, right?
Posted by: lurk at November 24, 2025 06:04 PM (7IOVT)

So you're saying it's a good start. I agree!

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 24, 2025 06:26 PM (nbLIj)

96 Show me in the Constitution where it is not the right of foreigners to come here and loot our treasury.

Go ahead. I'll wait.

Posted by: blaster at November 24, 2025 06:26 PM (URBZx)

97 84 Posted by: Cheri at November 24, 2025 06:24 PM (oiNtH)

remember none of the idiocy is possible without a LOT of white democrats.

Posted by: sven at November 24, 2025 06:26 PM (MUJd1)

98 48 45 A culture with an IQ of about 45 takes over parts of the US interior.


Posted by: Martini Farmer
----------------

How stoopid are we for allowing it?
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 24, 2025 06:15 PM (8VwBr)

Allowed?

It was planned and encouraged.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 24, 2025 06:27 PM (xcxpd)

99
You've never seen me in a bad mood.

I don't think you could handle it.
Posted by: BurtTC
---

You've got me confused with someone else.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 06:27 PM (glfD5)

100 85 In what universe does temporary mean 30 years? This should have been done on Trump 1.0.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 24, 2025 06:24 PM (0N4FZ)

The temporary status has repeatedly extended.

"These temporary protections have been in place for 34 years and the latest extension was set to expire in March, anyway." (Powerline)

Posted by: m at November 24, 2025 06:27 PM (RuTUS)

101 Now the story that was receiving no attention comes front and center.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2025 06:27 PM (sDNVV)

102 What about Maine and Ohio? They have Somalis.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

There's a ton of them in the Columbus, OH area. I know cuz I used to live there.

Posted by: Tuna at November 24, 2025 06:28 PM (lJ0H4)

103 99.99% of those in elected office want the West to collapses in total humility and subjugation. They just want to steal as much as they can in the interim thinking that they can jet off with their generational wealth while those who remain are fighting off the cannibals.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 24, 2025 06:22 PM (a4flb)

99.99% of the elected are NOT the elites they think they are.

When the Great Purge comes, they will be standing here, waiting for the bus with the rest of us schlubs, while the pirates or robots or robot pirates come to slaughter us.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 06:28 PM (VBcFa)

104 In what universe does temporary mean 30 years? This should have been done on Trump 1.0.

The Estate Tax as established an 1797 as a "temporary estate or inheritance tax" that was finally converted to permanent by the Revenue At of 1916.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 24, 2025 06:28 PM (a4flb)

105 Wait, are you saying we wouldn't like you when you're angry?
Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 06:26 PM (TN0g+)

So he's a gay actor who has Lou Ferrigno inside him?

NTTAWWT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 06:28 PM (zZu0s)

106 Minneapolis is the Mogadishu on the Mississippi River.

Send in the Blackhawks and see who runs, capture them, and deport back to the Somali Land Shithole....

Posted by: Jackson at November 24, 2025 06:28 PM (J9q9v)

107 93 Don't deport Burt, he's just in a bad mood.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 06:18 PM (glfD5)

You've never seen me in a bad mood.

I don't think you could handle it.
------

Wait, are you saying we wouldn't like you when you're angry?
Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 06:26 PM (TN0g+)

A guy who doesn't believe in fake boobs....who knows what he's capable of???

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 24, 2025 06:28 PM (xcxpd)

108 Biden judge will say temporary is as long as Biden intended it to be.
He will say Trump is a racist so his opinion means nothing.

Posted by: torabora at November 24, 2025 06:28 PM (6/eme)

109 Much, much, MUCH higher proportions of Special Needs, IEPs, and discipline problems than any other grouping of students.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2025 06:20 PM (cYBz/)

Or as the French doctor sending students out into the banlieus warned 'You will treat stuff you never expected to see outside of a medical textbook.'

Posted by: sal at November 24, 2025 06:28 PM (f+FmA)

110 There are apparently 700 Somalis with this protection in the ENTIRE country, so what could possibly be the reason for this?

its a new twist on the old "Haitian's are eating pets" bullshit. Gotta make room for white South Africans who have suffered the indignity of having a black family move into their neighborhood.

How can somebody sincerely be so racist and hateful? Is it just to punish Rep. Omar?

He'll have a full on ICE invasion in the next month. I'm guessing they're hoping to throw anything at Minnesota to stop Walz from getting reelected.

Redlining Birther doing project 2025 extra whitening treatment. Crazy a child trafficking rapist is getting this much damage done.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 24, 2025 06:28 PM (ycI94)

111 remember none of the idiocy is possible without a LOT of white democrats.
------

Yes, and a good number of them sat in church pews yesterday under leftists Priests and Pastors of all stripes telling them yet again "Orange Man Bad".

Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 06:28 PM (TN0g+)

112 Currently, at least 7 federal clown judges are holding their courthouse open 24/7, hoping to be the first to get the case, so they can issue another illegal injunction against Trump to stop the removal of permanent-but-temporary status.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 24, 2025 06:28 PM (VlU/R)

113 You've got me confused with someone else.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 06:27 PM (glfD5)

Lighten up, Francis. I'm just messing with ya.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 06:29 PM (VBcFa)

114 We learned nothing in Mogadishu.

Posted by: Eromero at November 24, 2025 06:29 PM (LHPAg)

115 Posted by: Cheri at November 24, 2025 06:24 PM (oiNtH)

remember none of the idiocy is possible without a LOT of white democrats.
Posted by: sven

Absolutely and it is them that I hate with the heat of a thousand suns. My fellow Americans my ass.

Posted by: Cheri at November 24, 2025 06:29 PM (oiNtH)

116 99.99% of the elected are NOT the elites they think they are.


I think that We The People can actually do a better job doing French Revolution than the French.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 24, 2025 06:29 PM (a4flb)

117 "This is not just a bureaucratic . "It is a political attack on the Somali and Muslim community driven by Islamophobic and hateful rhetoric."

----

Not really. Which is a shame.

I'd like to see a much healthier level of Islamaphobia than the sluggish torpor I'm seeing in the West.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 06:30 PM (BI5O2)

118 >>>Intercepted Reddit Transmissions

ick!

Posted by: m at November 24, 2025 06:30 PM (RuTUS)

119 Wait, are you saying we wouldn't like you when you're angry?
Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 06:26 PM (TN0g+)

A guy who doesn't believe in fake boobs....who knows what he's capable of???
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 24, 2025 06:28 PM (xcxpd)

I don't come here to be insulted!

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 06:30 PM (VBcFa)

120 115 Posted by: Cheri at November 24, 2025 06:29 PM (oiNtH)


The invaders are just doing what Globohomo hired them to do.

Posted by: sven at November 24, 2025 06:30 PM (MUJd1)

121 I don't come here to be insulted!
Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 06:30 PM (VBcFa)

With opinions like those, I find that hard to believe!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 06:31 PM (zZu0s)

122 I think that We The People can actually do a better job doing French Revolution than the French.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 24, 2025 06:29 PM (a4flb)

If we have time, sure.

You go get the pikes and guillotines.

Meanwhile, I'll get to raping their wimmins.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 06:31 PM (VBcFa)

123 110 Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 24, 2025 06:28 PM (ycI94)

Fuck them, I used to paddle boat Schneider Park in the 70s and 80s...

they killed swans and geese and the locals know it.

Posted by: sven at November 24, 2025 06:31 PM (MUJd1)

124 90 Gloom and Doom here today is thicker than CBD's syrup.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 06:25 PM (glfD5)

I imagine alcohol is involved.

Posted by: m at November 24, 2025 06:32 PM (RuTUS)

125 > the Albanians at least had Skanderbeg, who was pretty awesome.
Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 24, 2025 06:15 PM (Dg7ng)

They also had King Zog I, who, while not nearly as heroic as Skanderbeg (or, for that matter, heroic at all), did survive more than 55 assassination attempts, as he was on the wrong side of more than 600 blood feuds.

He also reportedly smoked more than 200 cigarettes a day. I guess having 600 blood feuds against you might incline you to have the occasional smoke.

Quote: "We prefer to die, from the littlest child to the oldest man, to show our independence is not for sale" (said shortly before cleaning all the gold out of the national bank and fleeing the country, one step ahead of Mussolini's troops).


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 24, 2025 06:32 PM (IG3/x)

126 83 Let's not forget Homan bailed on Trump in 2018. Guys a loud mouthed gasbag that doesn't get much accomplished. We should be at 10 million deported right now. Prediction: He's gone by EOY.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Let's not forget, Trump was kind of a disappointment in his first term, because his staff was full of RINOs trying to undermine his goals and get the GOPe agenda through. He certainly didn't unleash ICE and DHS and do mass immigration enforcement like THIS term. If Homan was serious about deportation and didn't see it happening first term, I can see him leaving.

This term is very different, and I like Homan and the rest of the ICE and DHS leadership we see so far.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 24, 2025 06:33 PM (ycI94)

127 I wonder how the native Native Blacks feel about the New Blacks, now with Improved Looting and Corruption add-ons?

Do they lament that they were not dark and exotic enough for their Liberal White Betters and were replaced?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 24, 2025 06:33 PM (VlU/R)

128 79 Just looked this up. The unemployment rate for working aged Somalis in Minnesota is a smidge under 35%.

Posted by: Orson
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That may be the official number, but that assumes they are not scamming SSDI just like they scam every other free money program.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 24, 2025 06:33 PM (8VwBr)

129 Show me in the Constitution where it is not the right of foreigners to come here and loot our treasury.

Colonialization is perfectly fine as long as White Christians don't do it.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 24, 2025 06:33 PM (a4flb)

130 I don't come here to be insulted!
Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 06:30 PM (VBcFa)

Oh, sorry. This is Abuse. Arguments is 2 doors down the hall in 4B.

Posted by: Monty Python at November 24, 2025 06:34 PM (wVcYX)

131 200? 10 packs a day.

You might want to slow down.

That's also just wasting cigarettes. That's lighting another while you forgot you have two burning in the ashtray.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 06:34 PM (zZu0s)

132 129 Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 24, 2025 06:33 PM (a4flb)

YES YOU GOT THE HIDDEN MESSAGE THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS WRITING!

//James MAdison

Posted by: sven at November 24, 2025 06:35 PM (MUJd1)

133 I’d rather the administration deports 30,000 Somalis first, THEN tells me about it on Truth Social.

Better to ask forgiveness than permission.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 24, 2025 06:35 PM (W2Pud)

134 117 "This is not just a bureaucratic . "It is a political attack on the Somali and Muslim community driven by Islamophobic and hateful rhetoric."

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Not really. Which is a shame.

I'd like to see a much healthier level of Islamaphobia than the sluggish torpor I'm seeing in the West.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 06:30 PM (BI5O2)
What YD said.

Posted by: Eromero at November 24, 2025 06:35 PM (LHPAg)

135 Drink more Ovaltine!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 06:35 PM (zZu0s)

136 > Send in the Blackhawks and see who runs, capture them, and deport back to the Somali Land Shithole....
Posted by: Jackson at November 24, 2025 06:28 PM (J9q9v)

Updated Full Metal Jacket quotes: "Anyone who runs is a Somali pirate. Anyone who stands still is a well-disciplined Somali pirate." "Do you ever kill women and children?" "Sometimes." "How can you kill women and children?" "Easy. You just don't lead 'em as much."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 24, 2025 06:35 PM (IG3/x)

137 Meanwhile, I'll get to raping their wimmins.

Ewww. I didn't know you were in to trannies.

Go ahead, you can have as much as you want.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 24, 2025 06:35 PM (a4flb)

138 >>>Still, advocates warned the move could inflame hate against a community at a time of rising Islamophobia.

Anti-fraud is anti-Islam?

Weird admission, but OK.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 06:35 PM (dK+Kv)

139 It's funny... whenever someone is going through chemo or getting a tumor removed you never hear people saying "look at that cancerphobic sonofabitch."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 06:36 PM (BI5O2)

140 Wait, how can the president do this without first getting permission from every frickin judge in the country? Who the hell does he think he is??

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at November 24, 2025 06:36 PM (ERYKL)

141 138 Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 06:35 PM (dK+Kv)

No weirder than Abby Phillip and Senator Kelly affirming "yes I was calling for sedition!" when taking "the penalty for sedition is death" as a personal rebuke...

Posted by: sven at November 24, 2025 06:36 PM (MUJd1)

142 I have a solution.

1. We give them Minneapolis. Make it sovereign.
2. We build a fucking wall around it and only allow food to enter the city if they send people back to Somalia.

On bag of potatoes = 1 person shipped back. They get to choose who.

3. We continue until they are all gone, then we take back Minneapolis.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 24, 2025 06:37 PM (8VwBr)

143 If you don't win the Somali community, you can't win Minneapolis. And if you don't win Minneapolis, you can't win the state. End of story."

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How about you get the other voters who are not Somalis to vote for you? Offer them something they want, like their state back.

Posted by: Decaf at November 24, 2025 06:37 PM (unUNN)

144 133 I’d rather the administration deports 30,000 Somalis first, THEN tells me about it on Truth Social.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Maybe we can compromise. Use the Abbott/DeSantis method, and bus them somewhere that welcomes illegals...like Canada. It's right there, the climate is similar, and Canada wouldn't turn away desperate refugees hoping to enrich a new land with their vibrant culture, would they? They aren't...racist?

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 24, 2025 06:38 PM (ycI94)

145 Ewww. I didn't know you were in to trannies.

Go ahead, you can have as much as you want.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 24, 2025 06:35 PM (a4flb)

Unlike some Supreme Court Justices, I know what a woman is.

A very large percentage of the nutjobs in this country are female. Actual females.

Some of them are physically attractive. I have a large supply of duct tape, and I know how to use it.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 06:39 PM (VBcFa)

146 143 Posted by: Decaf at November 24, 2025 06:37 PM (unUNN)

What makes you think white MN citizens want their state back?

They imported these people to do precisely what they are doing.

MN is LITERALLY a state sponsor of terrorism thanks to the organized crime levels of disability fraud they happily allow.

Posted by: sven at November 24, 2025 06:39 PM (MUJd1)

147 "I am a citizen and so are (the) majority of Somalis in America," Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Somali, said in a social media post Friday. "Good luck celebrating a policy change that really doesn't have much impact on the Somalis you love to hate."

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Has she read the small print on the conditions of citizenship, like obtaining it by false pretences? Or defrauding your new country?

Posted by: Decaf at November 24, 2025 06:39 PM (unUNN)

148 A hearty thank you to old man Bush for starting this clusterf**k in 1991. Always a good idea to import tens of thousands of people from a failed state and expect them to be responsible citizens. And hearty eff u to Bubba , Bush II , Barky and Mushbrain for keeping it going and increasing the mess
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Listen up!

America will die if you stop believing in the Magical Soil!

If you don't believe that just stepping foot on Magical Soil will convert even the retarded, inbred, illiterate, tribal Somali into a middle class shopkeeper with 3 kids, a mortgage, and PTA President-elect, you hate America!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 24, 2025 06:39 PM (VlU/R)

149 It’s not just them to be fair. Every immigrant group has been doing this for the past 40 years.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 06:10 PM (HW6XE)

Yup... I live in Central Valley California... you can't get a job here unless you are bilingual.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 24, 2025 06:40 PM (mP0Kj)

150 I don't believe the 700 number.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 24, 2025 06:40 PM (8VwBr)

151 > A very large percentage of the nutjobs in this country are female. Actual females.

> Some of them are physically attractive.

Case in point: Elon Musk is a smart motherfucker, but he has never learned the lesson about not sticking it in crazy.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 24, 2025 06:40 PM (IG3/x)

152 Rules. And consequences.

Posted by: John Wick at November 24, 2025 06:41 PM (TbWk/)

153 117 "This is not just a bureaucratic . "It is a political attack on the Somali and Muslim community driven by Islamophobic and hateful rhetoric."
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Not really. Which is a shame.

I'd like to see a much healthier level of Islamaphobia than the sluggish torpor I'm seeing in the West.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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It doesn't need to be hate.
Just a simple, have a nice flight home.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 06:41 PM (glfD5)

154 I don't believe the 700 number.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 24, 2025 06:40 PM (8VwBr)

Join the club.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 06:41 PM (VBcFa)

155
How about you get the other voters who are not Somalis to vote for you? Offer them something they want, like their state back.

I dunno about that. Minnesota residents like being humiliated and shamed - look at their tolerance of the NFL Vikings franchise.

Where do you think the term Stockholm Syndrome came from? Same demographic.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 24, 2025 06:41 PM (a4flb)

156 When does Minneapolis get the name "New Mogadishu"?

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 06:41 PM (krQz2)

157 The Somalis have been figuratively raping the Minnesota and federal taxpayers for years.

They think you're easy marks.

They're right.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2025 06:09 PM (lkBjo)

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The Democrats certainly are.

Posted by: Decaf at November 24, 2025 06:41 PM (unUNN)

158 I don't believe the 700 number.
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Great point.

Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 06:41 PM (TN0g+)

159 I don't believe the 700 number.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 24, 2025 06:40 PM (8VwBr)

Join the club.

Ouch.


Great cultural reference.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 24, 2025 06:42 PM (a4flb)

160 147 "I am a citizen and so are (the) majority of Somalis in America," Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Somali, said in a social media post Friday. "Good luck celebrating a policy change that really doesn't have much impact on the Somalis you love to hate."

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Has she read the small print on the conditions of citizenship, like obtaining it by false pretences? Or defrauding your new country?
Posted by: Decaf at November 24, 2025 06:39 PM (unUNN)

We need to MAKE the Supremes revisit their UnConstitutional ruling that Dual Citizenship was OK.

You are either a US Citizen, or something else... period.

Congress was given the authority to decide on Immigration and citizenship issues, and had a clear LAW that you HAD to give up your other citizenship to become a US Citizen, Supremes decided THEY were in charge.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 24, 2025 06:42 PM (mP0Kj)

161 via GP:
Recent data from Italy’s Interior Ministry has intensified longstanding, ever-increasingly relevant public concern about violent crime in migrant-heavy regions of Western Europe.

The latest figures have revealed that non-citizens account for 44 percent of all sexual-violence arrests in Italy, despite representing a mere 9 percent of the population.

Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 06:42 PM (TN0g+)

162 Case in point: Elon Musk is a smart motherfucker, but he has never learned the lesson about not sticking it in crazy.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 24, 2025 06:40 PM (IG3/x)

And yes, I WILL take his sloppy seconds.

If for no other reason, they don't need me to support them. The ones with babies, that is.

I'd take Amber Turd for free.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 06:43 PM (VBcFa)

163 I don't believe the 700 number.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 24, 2025 06:40 PM (8VwBr)

Join the club.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 06:41 PM (VBcFa)
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Not funny.

Posted by: Baby Seals at November 24, 2025 06:43 PM (krQz2)

164 Omar has grifted enough money to buy Somalia. She should install herself as Queen and take her loyal subjects with her.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2025 06:43 PM (sDNVV)

165 Good luck celebrating a policy change that really doesn't have much impact on the Somalis you love to hate."
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I'm not celebrating. When the State Department rescinds your fraudulently obtained citizenship and sends you back to Mogadishu stuffed into a steamer trunk with an angry family of plague rats, *then* I'll celebrate.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 06:43 PM (BI5O2)

166 >>>Case in point: Elon Musk is a smart motherfucker, but he has never learned the lesson about not sticking it in crazy.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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He has a strict criteria about what qualities he wants to impregnate.
We don't understand them.
It's a Mars thing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 06:44 PM (glfD5)

167 Case in point: Elon Musk is a smart motherfucker, but he has never learned the lesson about not sticking it in crazy.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 24, 2025 06:40 PM (IG3/x)
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That would limit his access to making kids.

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 06:44 PM (krQz2)

168 If you have an X account check out Emerald Robinson. She posted about a dozen tweets today detailing how the fraud in the 2024 election was defeated.

Might also help explain why Trump is going so hard at Maduro.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2025 06:45 PM (viF8m)

169 America will die if you stop believing in the Magical Soil!

If you don't believe that just stepping foot on Magical Soil will convert even the retarded, inbred, illiterate, tribal Somali into a middle class shopkeeper with 3 kids, a mortgage, and PTA President-elect, you hate America!
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 24, 2025 06:39 PM (VlU/R)

Magical anything, really. It's a weird combination of cargo cult rituals and fetishism. Just landing here doesn't imbue you with the beliefs, habits, and characteristics that make you an American, just as giving a homeless person a house doesn't magically imbue them with the beliefs, habits, and characteristics of a homeowner, or handing chronically poor person a pile of money makes them industrious, thrifty or responsible.

Posted by: There's a lot more to it at November 24, 2025 06:45 PM (TbWk/)

170 Yes, and a good number of them sat in church pews yesterday under leftists Priests and Pastors of all stripes telling them yet again "Orange Man Bad".
Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 06:28 PM (TN0g+)

The Lord said the poor will always be with us. Let us not turn them away, but create large federal programs and take money from those who have it and give it to those let fortunate. Let us pray...

Posted by: Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, LGQTBABC Advocate and democrat shill at November 24, 2025 06:46 PM (R/m4+)

171 Magical anything, really. It's a weird combination of cargo cult rituals and fetishism. Just landing here doesn't imbue you with the beliefs, habits, and characteristics that make you an American, just as giving a homeless person a house doesn't magically imbue them with the beliefs, habits, and characteristics of a homeowner, or handing chronically poor person a pile of money makes them industrious, thrifty or responsible.

Posted by: There's a lot more to it at November 24, 2025 06:45 PM (TbWk/)
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Which is why we used to naturalize people who were going to stay here a while.

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 06:47 PM (krQz2)

172 Import the third world don't be surprised you just moved to the third world and didn't leave your house

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2025 06:47 PM (+qU29)

173 167 Case in point: Elon Musk is a smart motherfucker, but he has never learned the lesson about not sticking it in crazy.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 24, 2025 06:40 PM (IG3/x)
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That would limit his access to making kids.
Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 06:44 PM (krQz2)

Aren't a significant number of his kids from IVF? He probably doesn't have a lot of time for impregnating the old fashioned way anyhow.

Posted by: Muskateers everywhere at November 24, 2025 06:47 PM (TbWk/)

174 Islamophobia is rational.

Posted by: KillGoogleandFacebook at November 24, 2025 06:47 PM (U9oYo)

175 Want to drive the Somalis even crazier? Recognize Somaliland, the former British Somaliland as independent. It's sort of stable and they've been clamoring for recognition

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 24, 2025 06:48 PM (bfwj/)

176 or handing chronically poor person a pile of money makes them industrious, thrifty or responsible.

There is no such thing as a "poor" person in America. They have all the same stuff you have, and more, plus time to enjoy it all because, unlike you, they don't actually have to work to obtain those things. They expect you to work for them.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 24, 2025 06:48 PM (a4flb)

177 Who is more retarded:

1) Somalis, with a below-room-temperature average IQ
or
2) An entire country that willingly imported the group named above, expecting them to somehow assimilate into Mom 'n' Apple Pie American culture?

You decide.

Posted by: ballistic at November 24, 2025 06:48 PM (5aZAZ)

178 Looks like Trump is going to sign the bill to continue the COVID-era Obamacare subsidies, thus proving Heinlein's adage that there is nothing more permanent than a temporary government program.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 24, 2025 06:48 PM (IG3/x)

179 Seems topical.

>>@Dapper_Det
·
17m
>>🚨BREAKING: 15-year-old girl savagely raped by a 27-year-old Muslim illegal alien named “Ochan Omot Ochogi” in Rochester, Minnesota. Police are refusing to release the mugshot of this pedophile and local news outlets refuse to cover the preventable rape of this poor child.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2025 06:49 PM (viF8m)

180 Dislike, even hatred of islam isn't a phobia. It's a well reasoned reaction to that satanic way of life and its followers.

Posted by: Prickly Pete Salmonella at November 24, 2025 06:49 PM (dFG8E)

181 Not funny.
Posted by: Baby Seals at November 24, 2025 06:43 PM (krQz2)

Amazing. Here's a kiss from a rose.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 06:50 PM (EfBtb)

182 160 147 "I am a citizen and so are (the) majority of Somalis in America," Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Somali, said in a social media post Friday. "Good luck celebrating a policy change that really doesn't have much impact on the Somalis you love to hate."

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Fight for it. But remember this, all islamists are very close to being shipped home. The conditions of your departure should be of concern.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 06:50 PM (glfD5)

183 Elon Musk developed Tesla's self-driving features out of personal necessity because that mofo evidently can't even pull out of a parking spot.

Posted by: ballistic at November 24, 2025 06:50 PM (5aZAZ)

184 154 I don't believe the 700 number.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 24, 2025 06:40 PM (8VwBr)

Join the club.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 06:41 PM (VBcFa)

*shuts eyes really hard*
I am receiving a word of knowledge...

Posted by: From the LAWRD at November 24, 2025 06:50 PM (TbWk/)

185 they don't actually have to work to obtain those things. They expect you to work for them.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 24, 2025 06:48 PM (a4flb)

Yeah, leisure is a magnifier.

It does help that so many of these fuckers are miserable.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 06:51 PM (zZu0s)

186 I guess Musk does have a few non-crazy babymamas (for some value of non-crazy). They all live in a Texas compound together with their kiddies. Seems like it'd be pretty awkward, but maybe they prefer having their children in a highly-secure environment, even if it does mean sharing a swimming pool with his other former sidepieces.

No idea if Musk still avails himself of their charms.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 24, 2025 06:51 PM (IG3/x)

187 Somalia. A homeland for the Palestinians. The Somalis will be shocked and amazed at their improved lifestyle.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 24, 2025 06:51 PM (y3bZw)

188 CNN Breaking News:

The Superbowl Halftime show will not be "Bad Bunny" and now will be a combination of Zamfir and the Pan Flute along with Yoko Ono singing her greatest hits.

Posted by: Jackson at November 24, 2025 06:52 PM (J9q9v)

189 Are we trying to go for obscure references?

That's what im telling ya. *munches sandwich*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 06:52 PM (zZu0s)

190 Jackson: STILL an improvement. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 24, 2025 06:52 PM (xqw19)

191 I'm Islamophobic the same way I'm MS13ophobic.

Posted by: All that headchopping is off-putting at November 24, 2025 06:53 PM (TbWk/)

192 The Superbowl Halftime show will not be "Bad Bunny" and now will be a combination of Zamfir and the Pan Flute along with Yoko Ono singing her greatest hits.
Posted by: Jackson at November 24, 2025 06:52 PM (J9q9v)

Hey, if he did lonely shepherd while Sydney Sweeney did a fan dance, I'd be immeasurably entertained.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 06:53 PM (zZu0s)

193 Aetius, if NFL was smart they would have made their halftime show, Sydney Sweeney.

She wouldn't even have to do anything except stand there.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 24, 2025 06:54 PM (xqw19)

194 > 188 CNN Breaking News:

The Superbowl Halftime show will not be "Bad Bunny" and now will be a combination of Zamfir and the Pan Flute along with Yoko Ono singing her greatest hits.
Posted by: Jackson at November 24, 2025 06:52 PM (J9q9v)

Opening act: Slim Whitman.


That's not really fair, though. Both Zamfir and Slim perform music that's reasonably easy on the ears (if a little insipid). Yoko singing should count as a war crime under the Geneva Conventions.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 24, 2025 06:54 PM (IG3/x)

195 The Superbowl Halftime show will not be "Bad Bunny" and now will be a combination of Zamfir and the Pan Flute along with Yoko Ono singing her greatest hits.
Posted by: Jackson at November 24, 2025 06:52 PM (J9q9v)

Hey, if he did lonely shepherd while Sydney Sweeney did a fan dance, I'd be immeasurably entertained.
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I'm not sure if I'm supposed to be impressed or horrified that you know the name of a Zamfir song?

Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 06:55 PM (TN0g+)

196 I'm islamaphobic because given half a chance they would lop my head off.

Posted by: fd at November 24, 2025 06:55 PM (vFG9F)

197 Senator Mark "CCP" Kelly looks like Dr. Evil from Austin Powers......

One Fugly Mo Fo if I must say ............

Posted by: Jackson at November 24, 2025 06:55 PM (J9q9v)

198 Dislike, even hatred of islam isn't a phobia. It's a well reasoned reaction to that satanic way of life and its followers.

The Greek word for Islam is: Ισλάμ (pronounced Islám).
The prefix for hate is miso- (μῖσος = hate)

So rather than islamophobia, it would be misoislam.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 24, 2025 06:55 PM (a4flb)

199 Are we trying to go for obscure references?

That's what im telling ya. *munches sandwich*
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 06:52 PM (zZu0s)

If you're referring to Seal songs, I had to look them up.

I only realized I know "Kiss From a Rose" because it was on one of the Batman soundtracks.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 06:55 PM (EfBtb)

200 She wouldn't even have to do anything except stand there.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 24, 2025 06:54 PM (xqw19)

Hey, that's my job!

Posted by: Taylor Notsoswift at November 24, 2025 06:56 PM (EfBtb)

201 So rather than islamophobia, it would be misoislam.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 24, 2025 06:55 PM (a4flb)

Me KEEL YOU long time!

Posted by: Oh misoislam, oh oh misoislam at November 24, 2025 06:56 PM (TbWk/)

202 Whenever I hear or see Yoko Ono, I wonder why America did not drop 3 bombs on them.

Posted by: Godzilla, Jap Eater at November 24, 2025 06:56 PM (R/m4+)

203 It turns out that naturalized citizenship can be revoked if it's shown you lied on your immigration paperwork.
Send us a postcard from Mogadishu, honey.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 24, 2025 06:23 PM (IG3/x)

And yet, she's still here, and she's still "serving" in Congress. She should be target #1 in DHS deportations. I don't care if it pisses off every Democrat in America. Needs to be done. Eject her, and make it clear that we won't stand for falsification in order to become a citizen or resident.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 24, 2025 06:56 PM (zYpTz)

204 Super Bowl halftime show:

The Return of Up With People

Posted by: blaster at November 24, 2025 06:56 PM (URBZx)

205 Hey, if he did lonely shepherd while Sydney Sweeney did a fan dance, I'd be immeasurably entertained.

I would think with that song selection it would be more appropriate to replace Sydney Sweeney with a goat.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 24, 2025 06:57 PM (a4flb)

206 How did I not know that Zamfir's first name was Gheorghe.

And now we know why he went by his surname.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 24, 2025 06:57 PM (IG3/x)

207 Out: 1960s Beach Boys Babes in Bikinis with Round Ass and Big Boobs

In: Letisha "Jabba" James in Size XXXXXXXXXXXXXL Sweats

Posted by: Jackson at November 24, 2025 06:57 PM (J9q9v)

208 I only realized I know "Kiss From a Rose" because it was on one of the Batman soundtracks.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 06:55 PM (EfBtb)

Hmmm. Forever? Nicole Kidman and Val Kilner?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 06:58 PM (zZu0s)

209 I read the other day that scientists at the super collider have discovered a parallel universe and they appear to be trying to communicate with us.


Once scientists deciphered the message it read.....we have been trying to contact you about your expired warranty.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 24, 2025 06:58 PM (0N4FZ)

210 I'd hardly call the 700 Club an obscure reference. It was on broadcast TV when I was a kid. I think anyone under 50 probably gets that one.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 06:58 PM (BI5O2)

211 Check this out, the hits keep coming.

Feeding Our Future defendant claimed to be feeding twice the population of entire town, says DOJ
Abdirashid Bixi Dool is the 78th person charged in the Feeding Our Future scheme.

https://tinyurl.com/yspp2vj2

Posted by: beckster at November 24, 2025 06:58 PM (I7J98)

212 Hollywood is always obsessed with the extremes.

In their minds "beauty" is either 500-lb Lizzo or Ariana Skeletor Grande.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 24, 2025 06:59 PM (xqw19)

213 I only realized I know "Kiss From a Rose" because it was on one of the Batman soundtracks.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 06:55 PM (EfBtb)

Hmmm. Forever? Nicole Kidman and Val Kilner?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 06:58 PM (zZu0s)

Damn, now I gotta look it up again.....

You are correct, sir.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 06:59 PM (CTMu4)

214 > 202 Whenever I hear or see Yoko Ono, I wonder why America did not drop 3 bombs on them.
Posted by: Godzilla, Jap Eater at November 24, 2025 06:56 PM (R/m4+)

Heh... Dennis Miller had a bit about her doing a benefit for Hiroshima survivors. "One of the attendees described her singing as the most horrifying experience of his life."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 24, 2025 06:59 PM (IG3/x)

215 Hmmm. Forever? Nicole Kidman and Val Kilner?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 06:58 PM (zZu0s)

Damn, now I gotta look it up again.....

You are correct, sir.
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That was peak Nicole Kidman.

Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 07:00 PM (TN0g+)

216 Wait, I mangled that. Should have said anyone over 40. See what happens when there's math on the blog ?!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 07:00 PM (BI5O2)

217 Hollywood is always obsessed with the extremes.

In their minds "beauty" is either 500-lb Lizzo or Ariana Skeletor Grande.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 24, 2025 06:59 PM (xqw19)

A few years ago Grande was hot AF.

Now, Karen Carpenter is calling down telling her to eat a cheeseburger.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 07:00 PM (CTMu4)

218 174 Islamophobia is rational.
Posted by: KillGoogleandFacebook at November 24, 2025 06:47 PM (U9oYo)

I'm not phobic. I'm averse.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 24, 2025 07:01 PM (zYpTz)

219 185 they don't actually have to work to obtain those things. They expect you to work for them.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 24, 2025 06:48 PM (a4flb)

Yeah, leisure is a magnifier.

It does help that so many of these fuckers are miserable.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 06:51 PM (zZu0s)

Yes I realize that poverty is relative and we don't have poverty in the United States when compared to populations living in genuine situations of total privation. Not especially relevant to the point, though.

Posted by: Where's a bucket when you need one at November 24, 2025 07:01 PM (TbWk/)

220 Burt, exactly.

Something really weird was going on, on the set of the Wicked movies. All three female leads now look like 1980s Ethiopians.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 24, 2025 07:01 PM (xqw19)

221 Ethiopia =/= Somalia

Ethiopia is Christian.
Somalia is Mohammedan.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 24, 2025 07:01 PM (APZWP)

222 That was peak Nicole Kidman.
Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 07:00 PM (TN0g+)

She's had an extended peak.

In "Too Die For," I never wanted more in my life to be a murdering high school student.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 07:02 PM (CTMu4)

223 Bixi Dool Sounds like some mixed breed of designer dog.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 24, 2025 07:02 PM (PFs9e)

224 You are correct, sir.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 06:59 PM (CTMu4)

Only one i could think of. A weird choice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 07:02 PM (zZu0s)

225 Holy crap, Zamfir is still alive and performing.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 24, 2025 07:03 PM (IG3/x)

226 Moving Islam out of America is not hate it's a very defensive act.

Their charter, their book of acts and deeds to all avowed is to conquer all and the conquered shall either submit or die.
Their leaders and holy men preach that every day here in America.
They want to conquer us, that is their goal, that is why they are here.
It's time for them to go.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 07:03 PM (glfD5)

227 Ethiopia =/= Somalia

Ethiopia is Christian.
Somalia is Mohammedan.

Some of the best coffee comes out of Ethiopia, nothing good comes out Somalia.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 24, 2025 07:03 PM (a4flb)

228 I'd actually say Peacemaker was peak Nicole Kidman. No bleach blonde hair. Not emphatically overdone. Just sexy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 07:03 PM (zZu0s)

229 217 Hollywood is always obsessed with the extremes.

In their minds "beauty" is either 500-lb Lizzo or Ariana Skeletor Grande.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 24, 2025 06:59 PM (xqw19)

A few years ago Grande was hot AF.

Now, Karen Carpenter is calling down telling her to eat a cheeseburger.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 07:00 PM (CTMu4)

I'm not big into the whole Hollywood Illuminati conspiracy theory stuff, but damn if she doesn't look mind-controlled in all her recent promotional appearances. And that - thing - she co-stars with is just horrific looking.

Posted by: Drugged. Brainwashed. Drugwashed. at November 24, 2025 07:03 PM (TbWk/)

230 Super Bowl halftime show:

The Return of Up With People
Posted by: blaster at November 24, 2025 06:56 PM (URBZx)

You meet ‘em wherever you go.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 24, 2025 07:03 PM (wVcYX)

231 a small Minnesota nonprofit that sponsored daycares
Hey! Remember when we were the Taliban did that?
Like peas in a pod, these folks are!

Posted by: GWB at November 24, 2025 07:04 PM (AlQPO)

232 I like most Kubrick movies (some of them very much). Eyes Wide Shut was kinda meh, though.

The exception was that peach-colored lingerie that Nicole Kidman was wearing.

Now, THAT should've won an Academy Award. Yowza!

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 24, 2025 07:04 PM (IG3/x)

233 >>>Case in point: Elon Musk is a smart motherfucker, but he has never learned the lesson about not sticking it in crazy.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

I think he's wealthy enough he doesn't have to worry about the ramifications of impregnating psycho baby mommas. Literal "fuck you" money.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 24, 2025 07:04 PM (ycI94)

234 Moving Islam out of America is not hate it's a very defensive act.

Their charter, their book of acts and deeds to all avowed is to conquer all and the conquered shall either submit or die.
Their leaders and holy men preach that every day here in America.
They want to conquer us, that is their goal, that is why they are here.
It's time for them to go.
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And the damndest thing is that all you have to do is ASK THEM and they'll confirm it for you! And then almost instantly a leftist will jump to their defense and claim "When they say conquer and kill you, they are referring to an internal struggle, and not some act of murderous violence you RAYCIST!".

Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 07:05 PM (TN0g+)

235 I even used to watch that show sometimes because the host, Pat something, would cover international stories you wouldn't hear in American media, back before we had a bunch of internet sources for those stories. OANN also covered a whole lot more international stories than other outlets, more recently, but they're gone now, IIRC. Not sure, though, I don't watch TV anymore.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 07:05 PM (BI5O2)

236 Ozempic seems to be a very double edged sword. When Calista Flockheart can call you bony, maybe get chocolate shake.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 07:05 PM (zZu0s)

237 Ariana Grande looks like one of those Lady Boi hustlers that give old men handies and BJ's for crack dollars in the Wal Mart parking lot.

Posted by: Kojack at November 24, 2025 07:06 PM (R/m4+)

238 >>> Not especially relevant to the point, though.
Posted by: Where's a bucket when you need one
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Around here the goal posts stay in the same, general, place.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 07:06 PM (glfD5)

239 227 the only good thing to come out of Somalia is a runway.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 24, 2025 07:06 PM (wBaIH)

240 turned a blind eye to fraud within the Somali community.
Hey, it's their culture. You can't hold that against them.

Posted by: GWB at November 24, 2025 07:06 PM (AlQPO)

241 I'm not big into the whole Hollywood Illuminati conspiracy theory stuff, but damn if she doesn't look mind-controlled in all her recent promotional appearances. And that - thing - she co-stars with is just horrific looking.
Posted by: Drugged. Brainwashed. Drugwashed. at November 24, 2025 07:03 PM (TbWk/)

At this point I assume they're all mind controlled and/or blackmailed... until proven otherwise.

And virtually ALL these "stars" who started before they were adults were passed around as cumbuckets.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 07:06 PM (CTMu4)

242 Does Cynthia Erivo have some unfortunate medical condition that causes baldness or this is some affectation of hers for attention?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 24, 2025 07:07 PM (PFs9e)

243 Ariana Grande and whatever that *thing* she co-stars with both look like they are perpetually on drugs of some kind and riding the magic high together. To be involved in some sort of "kids story" makes it that much creepier.

Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 07:07 PM (TN0g+)

244 >>>IIRC. Not sure, though, I don't watch TV anymore.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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The value to time is less than zero.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 07:08 PM (glfD5)

245 223 Bixi Dool Sounds like some mixed breed of designer dog.

LOL.

Posted by: beckster at November 24, 2025 07:09 PM (I7J98)

246 the state's deeply-rooted immigrant community
You mean all the ones who swear allegiance to Somalia? THAT deeply rooted community?

Posted by: GWB at November 24, 2025 07:09 PM (AlQPO)

247 Yeah, I've been trying to figure out what those Wicked dope heads are high on. I'm guessing something similar to MDMA, but I don't think it's exactly that, unless these Holywood broads are just getting a really pure supply the club kids don't get.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 07:09 PM (BI5O2)

248 I like most Kubrick movies (some of them very much). Eyes Wide Shut was kinda meh, though.

The exception was that peach-colored lingerie that Nicole Kidman was wearing.

Now, THAT should've won an Academy Award. Yowza!
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 24, 2025 07:04 PM (IG3/x)

I've heard it said, before they released the film he was pressured to tone down some of the accusations, because it was too real.

And there are even whispers that his death was not from natural causes.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 07:09 PM (CTMu4)

249 he state's deeply-rooted immigrant community

Sounds like a dandelion problem.

Posted by: t-bird at November 24, 2025 07:10 PM (BswBb)

250 Ariana Grande and whatever that *thing* she co-stars with both look like they are perpetually on drugs of some kind and riding the magic high together. To be involved in some sort of "kids story" makes it that much creepier.
Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 07:07 PM (TN0g+)

The funny thing is, aside from their freakshow looks, I've heard it said the movie's not that bad.

It's a chick flick to be sure, but if you're into that sort of thing, it's not full of woke nonsense.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 07:11 PM (CTMu4)

251 I posted earlier about that Somali Sherriff in Minnesota that gave a speech in his native language that said that he served Somalis first and foremost.
Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 06:05 PM (krQz2)

Yeah, that sure sounds like a violation of civil rights on the basis of national origin.

Posted by: GWB at November 24, 2025 07:11 PM (AlQPO)

252 > I've heard it said, before they released the film he was pressured to tone down some of the accusations, because it was too real.

And there are even whispers that his death was not from natural causes.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 07:09 PM (CTMu4)

Certainly wouldn't surprise me. That shit has been going on for a long, long time.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 24, 2025 07:12 PM (IG3/x)

253 the state's deeply-rooted immigrant community

You mean all the ones who swear allegiance to Somalia? THAT deeply rooted community?
Posted by: GWB

The solution for deeply-rooted invasive species is usually something like glyphosate.

Posted by: mikeski at November 24, 2025 07:12 PM (nhCoE)

254 Cafe is open

Posted by: Ben Had at November 24, 2025 07:13 PM (sDNVV)

255 Somali

The wine waiter at a nice restaurant?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 24, 2025 06:06 PM (CULda)

No. That would be a Canadian Somali. You know, a Somali-eh.

Posted by: GWB at November 24, 2025 07:13 PM (AlQPO)

256 The funny thing is, aside from their freakshow looks, I've heard it said the movie's not that bad.

It's a chick flick to be sure, but if you're into that sort of thing, it's not full of woke nonsense.
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I've read that too. Its just weird to watch them do interviews where they look so "out there".

Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 07:13 PM (TN0g+)

257 Lemme check with Keith Ellison on some of these MN issues. I am sure...nevermind.

Posted by: scampydog at November 24, 2025 07:14 PM (41CYW)

258 -----

I've read that too. Its just weird to watch them do interviews where they look so "out there".
Posted by: Crusader
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They look very sick.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 07:15 PM (glfD5)

259 I remember awhile back in Denver there was a drug crisis where people were passing off methcathinone as MDMA. What if the Wicked chicks got a batch of bath salts? They already look hungry as fuck. It could really mess up the next installment if they ate each other's faces.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 07:16 PM (BI5O2)

260 The brother lover should be deported for falsifying documents.
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 24, 2025 06:07 PM (vZUXb)

"Shot as an enemy spy" also works.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2025 07:17 PM (npFr7)

261 I wonder how come the family of some dead celebrity hasn't ever sued a studio... they all allow drug dealers on set for the """talent."""" You'd figure that's a lawsuit begging for some shark attorney to take someone to the cleaners.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 07:21 PM (BI5O2)

262 There's a ton of them in the Columbus, OH area. I know cuz I used to live there.
Posted by: Tuna at November 24, 2025 06:28 PM (lJ0H4)

They are in Alberta, too. Scum. Absolute worthless scum. Congenital criminals.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2025 07:27 PM (npFr7)

263 Posted by: Romeo13 at November 24, 2025 06:42 PM (mP0Kj)

THIS

Posted by: GWB at November 24, 2025 07:35 PM (AlQPO)

264 The Superbowl Halftime show will not be "Bad Bunny" and now will be a combination of Zamfir and the Pan Flute along with Yoko Ono singing her greatest hits.
Posted by: Jackson at November 24, 2025 06:52 PM (J9q9v)

That would, in fact, be an improvement. Still won't watch, though.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2025 07:36 PM (npFr7)

265 262 There's a ton of them in the Columbus, OH area. I know cuz I used to live there.
Posted by: Tuna at November 24, 2025 06:28 PM (lJ0H4)

They are in Alberta, too. Scum. Absolute worthless scum. Congenital criminals.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 24, 2025 07:27 PM (npFr7)

Plenty here in the TX Panhandle as well.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 24, 2025 07:53 PM (2fCWp)

266 al-Shabaab also runs a huge and well-funded ivory poaching operation in many parts of Africa and kills a ton of elephants each years to fund their terror with sales to Saudi Arabia, Turkey, China, and Russia. The Liberals don't know that...or they do and don't care and blame for hire adventure hunters from the US who are dentists.

Posted by: Donovan Nuera at November 24, 2025 07:57 PM (LKMDZ)

267 I served with and was trained by several veterans of the military operations in Somalia and have zero sympathy for any of them, so I am bewildered that we would allow thousands to come here at our expense. So fuck them

Posted by: UGAdawg at November 24, 2025 08:21 PM (mRET1)

268 The Somalis have been figuratively raping the Minnesota and federal taxpayers for years.

They think you're easy marks.

They're right.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2025 06:09 PM

It’s not just them to be fair. Every immigrant group has been doing this for the past 40 years.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 06:10 PM

Yep. Somalis, Muslims, Indians are the prime offenders/conquerers. Somalis and Muslims are conquering through power and influence in government and institutions. Indians are conquering by taking American jobs through H-1Bs and outsourcing.

Short of deporting every single illegal, ending all visas (and deporting those whose visas have expired) and a 10-20 year moratorium on ALL immigration, the US will look like Europe in 5-10 years.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 24, 2025 09:21 PM (P5BPp)

269 someone should tell Omar that fraud vitiates EVERYTHING. citizenship can be revoked. even hers

Posted by: susan harms at November 25, 2025 06:53 AM (Kkd7F)

Supreme Court Stays Left-Wing Rogue Judges' Ruling That Texas Is Not Allowed to Draw Its Own Congressional Maps

Alito stayed the decision, which means, for the moment, the map is back.

The lawless rogue left-wing judges had issued an injunction blocking the implementation of the map -- an injunction being an order granted before a trial, after a mini-hearing and a finding that the moving party is "substantially likely to succeed" at the actual trial* -- which means there is now no ruling before the full trial.

We'll see how it goes from there.


For now, this is good news.

Texas is back to using its 2025 congressional map, at least temporarily, after Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito granted the state's request to pause a court ruling that would have required using the lines legislators drew in 2021.

The high court has not yet decided what map Texas should use while the court battle over the legality of the map plays out over the coming weeks and months; Friday's ruling is a short-term pause while they make that decision.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton celebrated the step as a victory, and said his office would "look forward to continuing to press forward in our case on the merits."

* As the dissenting Judge Smith pointed out, the majority (of two) acknowledged that the law requires a "substantial likelihood" of victory to obtain this extraordinary relief, but then immediately ignored the requirement of "substantial (overwhelming) likelihood" and just spoke of mere likelihood.


Related: Conservatives won another victory at the Supreme Court.

This is complicated: A liberal fired by Trump filed suit arguing he couldn't be fired. The lowly district court judge granted Yet Another Emergency Injunction blocking his firing. The DC Court of Appeals vacated that injunction. The liberal brat appealed to the Supreme Court, who then declined to hear his appeal, letting the appeals court's ruling stand. And their ruling kicked over the lowly (left-wing) district court's Yet Another Emergency Inunction.

Todd Harper, a member of the National Credit Union Administration Board, challenged his removal from that role, filing suit against Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, President Donald Trump, and other administration officials.

In July, D.C. District Judge Amir Ali granted summary judgment in favor of Harper, but the administration appealed, and the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a stay of Ali's judgment pending appeal in August. Harper then filed a petition for writ of certiorari with the Supreme Court in September.

And that writ -- a request for a review by the Court -- was declined.

The RedState article notes that a lot of wins are found in these "short orders." People focus on the big rulings, but the tiny little short orders, like just declining to hear this guy whine that he feels entitled to keep his job, are big, too.

Posted by: Ace at 04:50 PM




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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 04:49 PM (Zz0t1)

2 That's right......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 04:49 PM (Zz0t1)

3 On to the next one.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 04:49 PM (Zz0t1)

4 They wouldn't have stayed the ruling if they weren't going to seriously consider overturning it.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 24, 2025 04:50 PM (0N4FZ)

5 Not sure the value of a stay.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 24, 2025 04:50 PM (ExV1e)

6 Well, we will see what we see

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 24, 2025 04:51 PM (xcxpd)

7 Ok! I guess.

Posted by: Guy who always says "Nothing will happen" and is usually right at November 24, 2025 04:51 PM (vFG9F)

8 These endless procedural rigamaroles really are going to end the common law system. "Lawyer driven" courts are just theaters to enrich lawyers, while everything takes forever to play out.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 24, 2025 04:51 PM (Dg7ng)

9 The effing Federal courts need to get out of elections, period.

We're not in Reconstruction anymore.

Repeal the VRA.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 04:51 PM (77rzZ)

10 What all those cullid folks gonna do if they dont have they own cullid districts?

Posted by: Kunta Kinta Brown at November 24, 2025 04:52 PM (1mUlr)

11 The effing Federal courts need to get out of elections, period.


I want them enforcing uniform voting rules in Federal elections. The problem is that they don't.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2025 04:53 PM (Riz8t)

12 Sorry to ask this again, Folks, but can someone please give me the e-mail for prayer requests?
Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 04:50 PM (77rzZ)

Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 24, 2025 04:53 PM (ExV1e)

13 "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers"
-- Dick the Butcher (Henry VI, Part 2)

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2025 04:53 PM (cYBz/)

14 Hey everybody. Hey ace.

I can't believe these activist judges don't know they're going to be slapped down from above. I guess they all just really, really crave their 20 minutes of adulation from the left.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 24, 2025 04:53 PM (xqw19)

15 I want them enforcing uniform voting rules in Federal elections. The problem is that they don't.
Posted by: Archimedes

Thus, the need to get them the hell out them.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 04:53 PM (77rzZ)

16 >>Not sure the value of a stay.

It allows Jackson Browne to play a little longer.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2025 04:54 PM (viF8m)

17 13 "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers"
-- Dick the Butcher (Henry VI, Part 2)
Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2025 04:53 PM (cYBz/)

I mean....I think we should see where he's going with this...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 24, 2025 04:54 PM (xcxpd)

18 Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Thank you.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 04:54 PM (77rzZ)

19 I guess they all just really, really crave their 20 minutes of adulation from the left.

You'd never have heard of Judge Boasberg if he hadn't simply ignored the law.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2025 04:54 PM (Riz8t)

20 How can the government even function without Todd Harper at the NCAU, or the NIC-U, or wherever he is?

Posted by: Wally at November 24, 2025 04:54 PM (dx81A)

21 but the tiny little short orders

I really am a big ruling, but the water was cold today!

Posted by: Tiny Little Short Order at November 24, 2025 04:54 PM (0sNs1)

22 The high court has not yet decided what map Texas should use while the court battle over the legality of the map plays out over the coming weeks and months;
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Nor should they decide what map Texas should use. They should just decide which maps are permissible under law, and let Texas make the determination from them.

Surprise, yet another reporter does not know the function of a judge.

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 04:55 PM (krQz2)

23 In July, D.C. District Judge Amir Ali

Wait, is he one of the Richmond Alis or the Trenton Alis?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2025 04:55 PM (sKqQm)

24 4 They wouldn't have stayed the ruling if they weren't going to seriously consider overturning it.
Posted by: Mister Scott

The grounds cited by the runaway judges were racial discrimination thus equating Democrats with minority rights to have minority set asides in gerrymandering cases.

Scotus has already heard oral arguments on the VRA giving courts (and state legislatures) the ability to interfere in redistricting to create majority minority districts -if that is struck down, then the lower court did not have the jurisdiction, aka legal right to hear the case, in the first place.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 04:55 PM (WDjG6)

25 Has anyone lost their judgeship or been thrown in jail?

Tar and feathers?
Hung?
Keep hauled?


Bueller?

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 24, 2025 04:55 PM (W2Pud)

26 iPlease submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic


I do owe you a gratuitous thank you for keeping the First Lady a part over the last while.

I was negligent in keeping you directly updated.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 04:56 PM (Zz0t1)

27 The Bolsheviks are just being sand in the gears to try and derail the recovery. It is the only power that they have unless they win the midterms.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 24, 2025 04:56 PM (jc0TO)

28 I want them enforcing uniform voting rules in Federal elections. The problem is that they don't.
Posted by: Archimedes

Thus, the need to get them the hell out them.

And make who responsible for enforcing the law? The answer isn't to get rid of the judiciary, it's to get rid of judges who ignore their role in it.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2025 04:56 PM (Riz8t)

29 It allows Jackson Browne to play a little longer.
Posted by: JackStraw

"Nah, I'm good."
-- Daryl Hannah

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2025 04:56 PM (cYBz/)

30 Wait, is he one of the Richmond Alis or the Trenton Alis?
Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2025 04:55 PM (sKqQm)


"Please to be knowing I was born in East LA!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 04:57 PM (Zz0t1)

31 Surprise, yet another reporter does not know the function of a judge.
Posted by: Axeman
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Most reporters use press releases from interested partisans like the Brennan Center of NYU to write their stories. Legal decision coverage in the press is abysmal even by so called lawyer commentators.

Plus most of the media is simply wishcasting shit when they write about it.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 04:57 PM (WDjG6)

32 I can't believe these activist judges don't know they're going to be slapped down from above. I guess they all just really, really crave their 20 minutes of adulation from the left.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 24, 2025 04:53 PM (xqw19)

They're a delaying action. The chirrens get agitated cuz things aren't happening fast enough and blame Trump for that. The olds get agitated cuz that nice man with the cashew shaped head on TV said that Trump's actions were declared illegal by a judge - without ever mentioning that the judge gets overturned.

It's all an op. A fake, gay, op.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 24, 2025 04:57 PM (ExV1e)

33 I don't think DJs even liked Jackson Browne's Loadout/Stay. But it was long enough for them to smoke some doobie and take a dump.

Posted by: Wally at November 24, 2025 04:58 PM (dx81A)

34 The SC is this close from overturning Humphrey's Executor. Get it done

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 24, 2025 04:58 PM (bfwj/)

35 But Commie-Fornica's Map is just, fine !!!!!!

Nothing to see there !!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson at November 24, 2025 04:58 PM (J9q9v)

36 Has anyone lost their judgeship or been thrown in jail?

Tar and feathers?
Hung?
Keep hauled?


Bueller?
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 24, 2025 04:55 PM (W2Pud)

Punishment of judges requires action by Congress. I think you can see the issue here.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 24, 2025 05:00 PM (ExV1e)

37 25 Has anyone lost their judgeship or been thrown in jail?

Tar and feathers?
Hung?
Keep hauled?


Bueller?
Posted by: nurse ratched

Using that as a standard is not appropriate given that the Founders, for better or worse, set up an impeachment process (which a significant minority felt was likely to be useless btw at the time) to remove federal judges. Like constitutional amendments, they made the bar high for removal which makes removal of judges extremely difficult.

The easiest way to remove them is like what Roosevelt did. He sweetened the retirement packages for judges and several justices opposing him on Scotus and more lower court judges immediately responded by retiring.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 05:00 PM (WDjG6)

38 The SC should order a lowly federal judge to be decapitated with a butterknife.that might make butt pirates like Boasberg think twice, but nothing short of it will.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 05:01 PM (BI5O2)

39 People focus on the big rulings, but the tiny little short orders, like just declining to hear this guy whine that he feels entitled to keep his job, are big, too.

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Funny how they think the world always leans their way. They can fire anyone but nobody is allowed to fire them.

Posted by: Decaf at November 24, 2025 05:01 PM (unUNN)

40 Punishment of judges requires action by Congress. I think you can see the issue here.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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It requires 2/3rds of the Senate for removal. Not an issue to impeach, but as even the Democrats found out, quite another thing to get to 2/3rds by making opposite party Senators walk the plank.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 05:01 PM (WDjG6)

41
It's Whigs on the Green time.

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 24, 2025 05:01 PM (IifOV)

42 The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers"
-- Dick the Butcher (Henry VI, Part 2)
****
Bite me.

Posted by: Dick the Bruiser at November 24, 2025 05:01 PM (0pybe)

43 Oh texas tribune they are the wurst

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 24, 2025 05:01 PM (bXbFr)

44 Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I do owe you a gratuitous thank you for keeping the First Lady a part over the last while.

I was negligent in keeping you directly updated.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 04:56 PM (Zz0t1)

Permit me to clarify. I am not “Annie’s Stew”. I copied and pasted the blurb from the start of the prayer thread without noticing that it included the word 'me'.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 24, 2025 05:01 PM (ExV1e)

45 32 They're a delaying action. The chirrens get agitated cuz things aren't happening fast enough and blame Trump for that. The olds get agitated cuz that nice man with the cashew shaped head on TV said that Trump's actions were declared illegal by a judge - without ever mentioning that the judge gets overturned.

It's all an op. A fake, gay, op.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 24, 2025 04:57 PM (ExV1e)

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It should be noted that no delay actually...happened here.

It was pointless, except narrative framing. And if anything has been proven over the past 9 years, since the first rise of Trump, it's that narrative framing is...overrated.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 05:02 PM (GBKbO)

46 Yes, judges have been thrown out.

No one remembers Rose Bird in California?

Of course, she did tons of damage before that happened. We all have her to thank for the entire Manson family living long, long lives.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 24, 2025 05:03 PM (xqw19)

47 Funny how they think the world always leans their way. They can fire anyone but nobody is allowed to fire them.
Posted by: Decaf
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Because it takes impeachment to remove and for a constitutional amendment sometimes to kill their rulings.

That being said, if convicted of crimes, then they can be sitting in prison not hearing cases until they resign or are removed by impeachment. That has happened to several judges.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 05:03 PM (WDjG6)

48 "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers"
-- Dick the Butcher (Henry VI, Part 2)
Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2025 04:53 PM (cYBz/)

I mean....I think we should see where he's going with this...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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It's lawyers or guns. Is there any other alternative?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 24, 2025 05:04 PM (XvL8K)

49 i used to have a different nic: true 100%, thanks.

Also, hello TJM! Sorry I missed your movie thread this past weekend.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 24, 2025 05:04 PM (xqw19)

50 Instead of blandly refusing to grant cert, I wish someone with Italian heritage like Alito would stand up and say "aw Shaddupyoface!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 24, 2025 05:04 PM (uWKK8)

51 narrative framing is...overrated.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 05:02 PM (GBKbO)

Certainly Hollywood seems to think so.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 24, 2025 05:04 PM (ExV1e)

52 49
Also, hello TJM! Sorry I missed your movie thread this past weekend.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 24, 2025 05:04 PM (xqw19)

======

Forgiven if you like and subscribe the YouTube channel.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 05:04 PM (GBKbO)

53 Yes, judges have been thrown out.

No one remembers Rose Bird in California?

Of course, she did tons of damage before that happened. We all have her to thank for the entire Manson family living long, long lives.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 24, 2025 05:03 PM (xqw19)

She was a state judge, not federal.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 24, 2025 05:05 PM (ExV1e)

54 Yes, lawyers and judges are beyond maddening.
At the same time: I recently read a joke.

- A genie appears and grants a man three wishes.
"Okay," he says. "I want all the lawyers and judges gone."
"Done," the Genie replies. "And I'm done here. Bye!"
"Hey wait!" the guy yells. "What about my other two wishes?"
"Sue me for 'em. Call an attorney."

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 24, 2025 05:05 PM (xqw19)

55 BTW, the right is not particularly better than the left in its media and 'influencers' bloviating about court decisions. TGP is particularly bad about it.

Clickbait and rage are common recipes for increased attention for ad clicks.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 05:06 PM (WDjG6)

56
Ace, thanks for not JCVD Nut-Punching us with this post. We couldn't take anymore.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 05:06 PM (FzTD6)

57 X can true up its accounts but Democrat enclaves are unwilling to do such.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 05:06 PM (uwNDP)

58 I just sent to prayer requests to the list:

ANOTHER lady in our neighborhood has cancer. F**k that shit. (Not sure what kind, though.)

Also, our son is moving out on Friday, into a house he is renting in Arlington, VA with two friends. Prayers that the move may go well, that the three might live together peaceably, and that his Mom and I might quickly adjust emotionally, to his absence.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 05:06 PM (77rzZ)

59 Permit me to clarify. I am not “Annie’s Stew”. I copied and pasted the blurb from the start of the prayer thread without noticing that it included the word 'me'.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 24, 2025 05:01 PM (ExV1e)

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I was really confused for a second.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 24, 2025 05:07 PM (DRSnL)

60 TJM,
Meant to tell you I liked the Howard Hawks top movie countdown. Gave me several movies that I had not seen and now might go about trying to locate.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 05:07 PM (WDjG6)

61 It's lawyers or guns. Is there any other alternative?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 24, 2025 05:04 PM (XvL8K)

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"Send lawyers, guns, and money
The shit has hit the fan"

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 24, 2025 05:07 PM (A5ASI)

62 I used to have a different nic, true.
Still, she got thrown out.

Re Fed judges, I don't know of any being thrown out. I want to say Abe Fortas, but I think he was only denied a promotion to SCOTUS, not taken off the bench.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 24, 2025 05:08 PM (xqw19)

63 Okay, so a good thing happened

Posted by: Don Black at November 24, 2025 05:08 PM (AOsQT)

64 I think the blistering dissent from the Texas Decision by Judge Smith will live on far, far longer than the nakedly political decision by the other two on the panel will.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 24, 2025 05:09 PM (uWKK8)

65 Alcee Hastings was thrown out as a judge. Of course, then he was elected a Congressman. Not all the corruption and stupidity comes from the judiciary, after all.

Posted by: Wally at November 24, 2025 05:09 PM (dx81A)

66 Can the Comey and James ruling be appealed, and then be reversed?

Posted by: That Guy at November 24, 2025 05:09 PM (IeX0j)

67 Wally, just more proof that Democrats have no shame whatsoever.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 24, 2025 05:10 PM (xqw19)

68 I wonder if Ace will cover the protesters at the anti-Trump Met opera performance of Carmen?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 05:10 PM (uwNDP)

69 Keep hauled?"

Castled?

Posted by: man at November 24, 2025 05:11 PM (XuXeR)

70 60+% of the native born population are White. But, we can’t seem to find any Judges named John Smith.

End the filibuster. End the blue slip.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at November 24, 2025 05:11 PM (XqFM2)

71 I think the blistering dissent from the Texas Decision by Judge Smith will live on far, far longer than the nakedly political decision by the other two on the panel will.

Screw you we've still got vouchers for free Beejers from a woman on any college campus we drop by!

One question though why do these vouchers note that a woman is anyone that self identifies as a woman?

Posted by: Judge Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb at November 24, 2025 05:11 PM (sKqQm)

72 The only Federal Judge I can think of who was impeached was Alcee Hastings from Florida, and that only happened because he got caught soliciting bribes.
And then after he was impeached he got himself elected to Congress anyways. Well I guess because he proved he was well suited for the job.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 24, 2025 05:11 PM (uWKK8)

73 >>Can the Comey and James ruling be appealed, and then be reversed?

Yes and yes. Already in motion.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2025 05:11 PM (viF8m)

74 68

Even to opera fans like me the Met is dead. I haven't listened to a broadcast in years, and that's radio where I don't have to see the hideous modernist productions. But even over the airwaves they have to virtue signal so much that I can't listen.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 24, 2025 05:12 PM (Dg7ng)

75 I wonder if Ace will cover the protesters at the anti-Trump Met opera performance of Carmen?
Posted by: Anna Puma

"Neither an ICE guy nor a wetback be..."

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 05:12 PM (77rzZ)

76 Alcee Hastings was impeached by Congress and later came back as a Democrat in the House of Representatives.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 05:13 PM (uwNDP)

77 The easiest way to remove them is like what Roosevelt did. He sweetened the retirement packages for judges and several justices opposing him on Scotus and more lower court judges immediately responded by retiring.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 05:00 PM (WDjG6)
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Judges were less ideological in those days.

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 05:13 PM (krQz2)

78 I can't believe these activist judges don't know they're going to be slapped down from above. I guess they all just really, really crave their 20 minutes of adulation from the left.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 24, 2025 04:53 PM (xqw19)

I think you underestimate their motivation and determination. Like Islam, Marxism is a whole-of-society grift. The amount of wealth in play for a victorious clique is literally unimaginable. Even federal judges have checks on their authority -- as you say -- so there is room for improvement for the power-hungry, who dream of a socialist "paradise" (for them) of no limits, just pure Will *Is* Law.

So, anything they can do to move the needle, even just a little bit here and there, is totally worth it. (Insert Terminator quote about relentless pursuit.) Maybe this ruling will be sent back, but another one might get through, or at least delay MAGA enough to give Mordor an edge. Evil never rests, and neither will they until there's a Constitutional amendment banning them and an American Inquisition to root them out.

Posted by: SciVo at November 24, 2025 05:13 PM (vQLHf)

79 One would expect that almost all judges and politicians would be natural born Americans.

They understand our politics and citizens better, in aggregate, then someone that just moved here.

And yet it seems under Biden almost all judges, and plenty of upperwardly mobile Dem pols are foreign born or first generation.

That only happens if you do it intentionally and you only do it intentionally if you want less American decisions...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2025 05:14 PM (sKqQm)

80 Annie's Stew is Right!

Posted by: Irish Stew at November 24, 2025 05:14 PM (rO4EG)

81
The very very ugly Chelsea Handler, who is evil-insane & quite stupid, revived her same exact 2020 fake "I'm Breaking Up With _____ " act, but this time, she's fake "breaking up with"...

Home Depot.

Yeah, back in 2020 chelsea, who had just embarked on her quest for a plastic face, made a series of lolcow videos saying she was "breaking up" with all her Trump-supporting fake "boyfriends." And promised all her fake "boyfriends" (her imaginary Simps, I guess) she would "open her legs" again for them if she voted for biden.

handler, who looks like a Batman villain, now, made the same promise, last weekend, to her "boyfriend" Home Depot. I think she was trying to appeal to Home Depot shoppers, but didn't make that clear.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 05:14 PM (FzTD6)

82 and that his Mom and I might quickly adjust emotionally, to his absence."

Took us about .2483 of a second for us. Or maybe less.

Posted by: man at November 24, 2025 05:14 PM (XuXeR)

83 My SWAG? (scientific wild ass guess).

Alito knows that the Supremes are about to nuc gerrymandering along racial lines, as it is CLEARLY not only against the law, but makes Race relations WORSE in this nation...

Which means that Texass Judge's ruling, saying it was done for Race reasons, would be moot as soon as that Ruling drops.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 24, 2025 05:14 PM (mP0Kj)

84 It's extremely aggravating to have to go through the bullshit we go through to get a legal decision upheld while we (again) have to go through the bullshit we go through to get an illegal decision tossed.

Maybe tossed. It always depends on the judge's alliance.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 24, 2025 05:15 PM (NwnyJ)

85 If the Supreme Court rules against Texas, it should be scorched earth on every gerrymandered state map.

Especially cali and New England.

Posted by: LizLem at November 24, 2025 05:15 PM (gWBY1)

86 Recreate Two-oh-one-eight is in full swing:
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Jake Sherman @JakeSherman ·

A few other GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term.

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 05:17 PM (krQz2)

87 The incentives is for leftwing judges to keep this up even if their decisions are reversed.

By being leftwing activists they will get cash, status, and opportunities from other leftwingers. And there is no price to pay so...why wouldn't they?

People respond to incentives.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2025 05:17 PM (sKqQm)

88 Trump should make a big trade deal with some third world hellhole where we have an extradition treaty, in exchange for some crooked judge of theirs printing off arrest warrants for our federal judges, and then send SWAT teams into their homes to serve them up to the tender mercies of Liberian Justice.

See how many more of them say some dumb shit after that.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 05:17 PM (BI5O2)

89 I'd be content to see an actual Federal law that requires witnessed lotteries in Judge assignment that allows for no discretion or rigging.

There's no way to explain the lopsided assignment of cases to these activist judges on such a frequent basis other than purposefully. The judge selection process has not earned the benefit of the doubt. The Honor system only works when there is honor....You Honor.

Posted by: Orson at November 24, 2025 05:18 PM (dIske)

90 People focus on the big rulings, but the tiny little short orders, like just declining to hear this guy whine that he feels entitled to keep his job, are big, too.

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Everybody is an attorney, doncha know ?

Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 05:20 PM (g47mK)

91 It requires 2/3rds of the Senate for removal. Not an issue to impeach, but as even the Democrats found out, quite another thing to get to 2/3rds by making opposite party Senators walk the plank.
Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 05:01 PM (WDjG6)

Not to mention all the TIME it would take to impeach Judges.... Senate already does not do much... this would put them even further behind.

Congress has the authority to regulate courts lower than the Supremes... they just need to create a mechanism... panel, Court, something, that can get rid of crappy Judges.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 24, 2025 05:20 PM (mP0Kj)

92 86 Recreate Two-oh-one-eight is in full swing:
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Jake Sherman @JakeSherman ·

A few other GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term.
Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 05:17 PM (krQz2)

Maybe we won't have to wait till 2026 for the dems to take the House

Posted by: It's me donna at November 24, 2025 05:21 PM (VE6XX)

93 Supreme Court rules against Texas"

Ok...

/buys more ammo

Posted by: man at November 24, 2025 05:21 PM (XuXeR)

94 Elon Musk's cat-girls randomly selecting judges would be PPV gold.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 05:21 PM (uwNDP)

95 Hander is on the level as much as HD pressure treated lumber.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 24, 2025 05:21 PM (wBaIH)

96 I wonder if Ace will cover the protesters at the anti-Trump Met opera performance of Carmen?
Posted by: Anna Puma

The irony being that the new production of Carmen(set at the US/Mexican border)is wildly anti Trump. Soldiers dressed as ICE agents seen breaking families up. This is from what I read in the NY Post.

Posted by: Tuna at November 24, 2025 05:21 PM (lJ0H4)

97 SciVo, hmmm thanks.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 24, 2025 05:21 PM (xqw19)

98 A few other GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term.

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they weren't voting for Trump anyway , were they

Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 05:21 PM (g47mK)

99 Federal judges removed via impeachment
- John Pickering: mental instability/intoxication on the bench; removed 1804
- West H. Humphreys: accepted a position under the Confederacy; removed 1862
- Robert W. Archbald: used his office for personal gain and business transactions with litigants; removed 1913
- Charles Swayne: false expense claims; other abuses of power; removed 1909
- George W. English: alleged misconduct; resigned 1926
- Robert W. Archbald: used his office for personal gain; removed 1913
- Harry Claiborne: tax evasion; removed 1986
- Walter L. Nixon: perjury; removed 1989
- Samuel B. Kent: sexual assault/obstruction; removed 2009

Impeached judges acquitted or resigned
- Samuel Chase: misconduct; acquitted by Senate 1805
- James H. Peck: abuse of power; acquitted by Senate 1831
- Alcee L. Hastings: conspiracy/perjury; acquitted of criminal charges; elected to Congress
- George S. Nixon: alleged misconduct but Senate did not act
- Charles Swayne: misuse of funds; other offenses; resigned before Senate vote

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 24, 2025 05:21 PM (xqw19)

100 The above is per Google AI.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 24, 2025 05:21 PM (xqw19)

101 The lawless rogue left-wing judges had issued an injunction...

You MEANT to call them feckless, unelected, black-robed, tyrannical, inferior federal district court judges...

Posted by: Andrew Branca at November 24, 2025 05:22 PM (K+3Ak)

102
We are big; it's the judiciary that got small.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at November 24, 2025 05:22 PM (xG4kz)

103 The decision by the leftwing toad in favor of soyboy brat Harper wasn’t on a temporary emergency filing. It was on summary judgment after (presumably) full consideration. I’m not sure if that makes it better or worse.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at November 24, 2025 05:22 PM (dZ2MG)

104 Bulg, when our son left for his senior year of college we gave a party for other parents in the same situation: "Home alone! A celebration!" It was great fun. Prizes for most embarrassing incident of child this summer, etc.

Posted by: Wenda at November 24, 2025 05:23 PM (/WpRi)

105 Shoe has a new vid! She explains why actual conservatives hate the GOP better than many conservatives can explain it.

And Trump/Mamdami (Trumpdami?) is her new yaoi weird ship.

She moved to NYC for hubby's job apparently and had nuggies doordashed to her during the vid. Not sure how I feel about that! It's like tradwife meets Gen z lazy decadence. But this vid will rack up over a million views so she can afford the nugs.

Posted by: LizLem at November 24, 2025 05:23 PM (gWBY1)

106 But Massie will stick around like an engorged tick, jaws firmly attached to the monetary jugular.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 05:23 PM (uwNDP)

107 We can't demand the Senate waste its time impeaching rogue judges! When would they ever find time to fund raise?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 24, 2025 05:24 PM (wBaIH)

108 It's lawyers or guns. Is there any other alternative?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 24, 2025 05:04 PM (XvL8K)

Judges or juries without lawyers?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 24, 2025 05:24 PM (xcxpd)

109 Now that we're done laughing that the foreign accounts faking MAGA or pro-Kamala, ShoeOnHead has a vid up.
youtu.be/gli4Ox4i54I

Posted by: gKWVE at November 24, 2025 05:24 PM (gKWVE)

110
A few other GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term

Shades of the Paul Ryan-led skeedaddle in 2017-2018.

I loathe these cowards.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at November 24, 2025 05:24 PM (xG4kz)

111 Judges were less ideological in those days.
Posted by: Axeman
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Offering a million dollar payday is likely to drive even obstinate judges to retire. And no, judges were pretty ideological back then too. Substantial messes created in our republic were caused by ideological judges--Dred Scott, Barron v. Baltimore, Plessy v. Ferguson, etc. Even Marshall cared more about results than the law. Read Marbury v. Madison then read his opinion on almost the same content but a different section of the Judiciary Act in Ex Parte Bollman and Ex Parte Swarthout.

Bollman and Swarthout cases was too much for one of the justices, William Johnson and he dissented in these cases and called Marshall out on his playing games with the Judiciary Act.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 05:24 PM (WDjG6)

112
"punchbowl" fake "news" is the new drudge

jake sherman is the new cuck drudge

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 05:25 PM (FzTD6)

113 BLAM BLAM BLAM!

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 24, 2025 05:25 PM (W2Pud)

114 Not to mention all the TIME it would take to impeach Judges.... Senate already does not do much... this would put them even further behind.
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Flights from Dulles to Monrovia are less than 24 hours. They could be apprehended and be arraigned by a cannibal child soldier/judge the next day.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 05:26 PM (BI5O2)

115 We should reflect upon how The Sons of Anarchy pushed judges to change.

Posted by: thug dolphin at November 24, 2025 05:26 PM (EyfuW)

116 The only Federal Judge I can think of who was impeached was Alcee Hastings from Florida,

Posted by: Tom Servo
________

State court judges are much more interesting. Here in Ky, one was shot by the sheriff a couple of years ago over pimping out female defendants. Another was kicked off the bench for a scandal involving a three way. Ace covered the latter, with her picture captioned "I will hold you in contempt of my snizz." That's up there with the Ana Navarro stinky feet caption.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 24, 2025 05:26 PM (XvL8K)

117 good thing Trump pushed BBB through when he did

Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 05:26 PM (g47mK)

118 I'm pretty sure they already took the vote on the majority-minority districts ruling as well.

And I'll bet good money that the Left Bloc has been playing the same game as these district judges--delaying as long as they can to push that map change past the filing deadlines for as much of 2026 as possible.

The Dems know that 2026 is their last chance to take the House in the next 40 years.
And 2028 is their last chance at the Presidency for that long as well.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 24, 2025 05:26 PM (VlU/R)

119 I wonder if those "members" are being paid off bigly to retire early...

Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 05:27 PM (g47mK)

120 The irony being that the new production of Carmen(set at the US/Mexican border)is wildly anti Trump. Soldiers dressed as ICE agents seen breaking families up. This is from what I read in the NY Post.

Posted by: Tuna at November 24, 2025 05:21 PM (lJ0H4)

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Did they depict The DogEater putting the children in cages?

/rhetorical

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 24, 2025 05:27 PM (8smhG)

121 103 The decision by the leftwing toad in favor of soyboy brat Harper wasn’t on a temporary emergency filing. It was on summary judgment after (presumably) full consideration. I’m not sure if that makes it better or worse.
Posted by: Elric the Blade
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Summary judgment and jury instructions are the two most often overturned trial court decisions by appellate courts. Usually it is shitty work done by the trial judge in the first place that exceeds the deferential treatment that appellate courts usually have toward trial judge decisions.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 05:27 PM (WDjG6)

122 It might be true that some Republican Reps are considering retiring or it might just be more leftist psyops.

Most of these people are addicted to power. And money.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2025 05:29 PM (viF8m)

123 Jake Tapper's sources were all lying to o him about Biden's brain.
Why should we believe Jake Sherman was contacted by GOPe types?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 24, 2025 05:29 PM (bfwj/)

124 How did that Nuremberg movie do at the box office?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 05:29 PM (uwNDP)

125 118 I'm pretty sure they already took the vote on the majority-minority districts ruling as well.

And I'll bet good money that the Left Bloc has been playing the same game as these district judges--delaying as long as they can to push that map change past the filing deadlines for as much of 2026 as possible.

The Dems know that 2026 is their last chance to take the House in the next 40 years.
And 2028 is their last chance at the Presidency for that long as well.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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Scotus goes into conference on the week of oral arguments on cases that week (usually Friday) to vote on merits.

After the merit vote, opinions are assigned by the most senior justice (or chief justice) on the winning side at the merits vote. Not final until opinion is published.

There are a few exceptions but that is the general rule.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 05:30 PM (WDjG6)

126 Supreme Court Stays Left-Wing Rogue Judges' Ruling That Texas Is Not Allowed to Draw Its Own Congressional Maps

Utah has a similar case, where a judge threw out the Legislature's map, ruling that Democrats always get one of Utah's seats, regardless of how many actual votes they can muster together on Election Day Week Month Season.

Posted by: Half Dozen at November 24, 2025 05:30 PM (mlA5S)

127 People focus on the big rulings, but the tiny little short orders, like just declining to hear this guy whine that he feels entitled to keep his job, are big, too.
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Sure. But we need a real disincentive to stop these judges. As it is, we're relying on hurt feelings.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 24, 2025 05:30 PM (s0JqF)

128 '26 is muy, muy importante, and that's why X cleaning its Aegean Stables is también muy importante

Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 05:30 PM (g47mK)

129 Bulg, one of our kids moved out and the Thanksgiving break will be redoing his room to a guest room.

Which I'm sure he'll complain about when he returns for Christmas. You moved out! It's not your room! It sucks but It's life.

Youngest misses his bro and keeps sneaking into the guest room to sleep in there now. We joke he's Dudley Dursley and It's his second bedroom. And he's upset about any changes I make to it to make it less like his brother's old room.

Kids!

I'm reminding myself it's my guest room. MINE. And all the work is worth it. It will be lovely even if boys complain.

Posted by: LizLem at November 24, 2025 05:31 PM (gWBY1)

130 So what were those protesters at the Met protesting?

Gaza or climate change?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 05:31 PM (uwNDP)

131 How did that Nuremberg movie do at the box office?
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 05:29 PM (uwNDP)

I'm reserving judgement.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 05:31 PM (Buz0/)

132 124 There is no box office (other than Wicked, and even that will have fewer women/gays watching it than last year's part). Movie theaters are dead. The funeral just hasn't been announced yet.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 24, 2025 05:31 PM (Dg7ng)

133 Flights from Dulles to Monrovia are less than 24 hours. They could be apprehended and be arraigned by a cannibal child soldier/judge the next day.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 05:26 PM (BI5O2)

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Imagine how much money we could raise selling Safari-Hunt-like tags?

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 24, 2025 05:32 PM (K2ZXV)

134 Kids! What's the matter with kids today?!
Kids! Who believes all the things they say?!
Why can't they be like we were? Perfect in every way??
What's the matter with kids today???

Posted by: qdpsteve in his spangled Broadway getup at November 24, 2025 05:32 PM (xqw19)

135 116 The only Federal Judge I can think of who was impeached was Alcee Hastings from Florida,

Posted by: Tom Servo

Several in the 90's, one, Walter Nixon, challenged his impeachment at Scotus but lost. He challenged because he claims that he should have had a full hearing before the Senate rather than before a committee before being removed from office. He was already sitting in jail for conviction (related to bribery IRRC). Nixon was one of the judges caught related to Trent Lott's slimy BIL whose name I forgot who was a big time trial lawyer in Mississippi class action lawsuits in backwater country jurisdictions.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 05:33 PM (WDjG6)

136 off spangled Broadway getup

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 24, 2025 05:33 PM (xqw19)

137 How did that Nuremberg movie do at the box office?
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 05:29 PM (uwNDP)

I'm reserving judgement.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 05:31 PM (Buz0/)

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Sitting through it must have been trying.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 24, 2025 05:33 PM (K2ZXV)

138 Born
Amir Hatem Mahdy Ali, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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So many foreigners in our government. So many foreigners in related government agencies. There ought to be a law.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 05:34 PM (glfD5)

139 District Judge Amir Ali

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Of the Nantucket Alis or the Newport Alis?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 05:34 PM (HW6XE)

140 Does Russel Crowe deliver all his lines as Goëring in a Trump voice?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 05:34 PM (BI5O2)

141 But Massie will stick around like an engorged tick, jaws firmly attached to the monetary jugular.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 05:23 PM (uwNDP)

Massie actually cares about this country.

Unlike the sycophantic pricks who kiss Trump's arse, and conspire behind his back.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 05:35 PM (Buz0/)

142 The Dems know that 2026 is their last chance to take the House in the next 40 years.

And from what I understand, the GOP is working hard to do a repeat of the treachery of Paul Ryan and do all that they can to guarantee a Demonic Party win in 2026.

I'm revising my "All Democrats hate America" to include "Nearly All Republicans hate America" too.

Remember, this GOP beyond passing a corrupted form of the B³ has done absolutely nothing to move the MAGA agenda forward.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 24, 2025 05:35 PM (a4flb)

143 Sitting through it must have been trying.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 24, 2025 05:33 PM (K2ZXV)

Never again!

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 05:35 PM (Buz0/)

144 Massie actually cares about this country.

Unlike the sycophantic pricks who kiss Trump's arse, and conspire behind his back.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 05:35 PM (Buz0/)

Massie cares about Massie

Posted by: It's me donna at November 24, 2025 05:35 PM (VE6XX)

145 The most dangerous place to be in America is between a congressperson and their money.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 24, 2025 05:36 PM (xqw19)

146 Massie actually cares about this country.

That is why he routinely sides with the Demonic Party.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 24, 2025 05:36 PM (a4flb)

147 Utah has a similar case, where a judge threw out the Legislature's map, ruling that Democrats always get one of Utah's seats, regardless of how many actual votes they can muster together on Election Day Week Month Season.
Posted by: Half Dozen
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I think that was a state court judge. Utah has a court of appeals and Supreme Court so I'll bet the decision was appealed to one of them depending on Utah law.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 05:37 PM (WDjG6)

148 I think you underestimate their motivation and determination.
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Yup.
Go and look at how fast they are moving these cases against Trump.
They are well past "extraordinary speed."
We're talking light speed.
On a docket where almost all cases take years to resolve, they are clearing them in less than 120 days. Some under 90 days.
It's just hard to say how incredibly insane that is on the federal docket for highly-contested cases.
They are basically neglecting their entire docket--ignoring hundreds of cases--to "get Trump."
What's hilarious is, these clown judges are too stupid to see how much that slop and speed and animosity are hurting them.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 24, 2025 05:37 PM (VlU/R)

149 Thousands mourn Hezbollah commander killed by Israel
_https //www aljazeera com/ video/newsfeed/

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 05:38 PM (glfD5)

150 qdpsteve 👍

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2025 05:38 PM (+qU29)

151 If you believe a Senator cares about anything beyond the end of his snout, I have some beachfront property in Kansas you'll just love.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 05:38 PM (BI5O2)

152 We can't demand the Senate waste its time impeaching rogue judges! When would they ever find time to fund raise?
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 24, 2025 05:24 PM (wBaIH)

I already spend 80% of my time on Fox News. Only so many hours in a day.
- Miss Lindsey

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 05:38 PM (HW6XE)

153 There's a bunch of good videos on how freaky codependent the two leads of Wicked are. And they are.

Wicked will have legs. The musical was made in the anti-bush era of era of the 2000s. And now the movie is during the anti Trump era. The left loves it. Even Christian Toto liked it.

I hope it wins the best picture Oscar over pro Antifa film One Battle After Another. Let a film win that people actually went to see in theaters, for once!

Posted by: LizLem at November 24, 2025 05:39 PM (gWBY1)

154 Or Michelle and a buffet

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 05:39 PM (uwNDP)

155 Massie cares about Massie
Posted by: It's me donna at November 24, 2025 05:35 PM (VE6XX)

So?

Do you care about yourself?

You think any of the other 534 people in Congress don't care about themselves? What standard do you insist on?

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 05:40 PM (Buz0/)

156 Massie actually cares about this country.

Unlike the sycophantic pricks who kiss Trump's arse, and conspire behind his back.

Posted by: BurtTC
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Massie and Rand Paul, the two most caring US Senators we have.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 05:40 PM (glfD5)

157 Or Michelle and a buffet
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 05:39 PM (uwNDP)

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Assuming you mean Big Mike, she's actually looking thin and stringy lately.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 24, 2025 05:41 PM (DRSnL)

158 Massie actually cares about this country.

Unlike the sycophantic pricks who kiss Trump's arse, and conspire behind his back.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 05:35 PM (Buz0/)

Massie is a smarter slightly less lunatic version of MTg. But at his core he’s still a grifter who blames da Joooooos for every problem in the world.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 05:42 PM (HW6XE)

159 Those Wicked chicks lezzing out all over each other is all people talk about, but it's Hollywood where everyone's gay. You'd think people would be talking about they seem to be high AF on some weird drug all the time.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 05:42 PM (BI5O2)

160 Also, our son is moving out on Friday, into a house he is renting in Arlington, VA with two friends. Prayers that the move may go well, that the three might live together peaceably, and that his Mom and I might quickly adjust emotionally, to his absence.
Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 05:06 PM (77rzZ)
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So you're not changing the locks.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2025 05:42 PM (8o16y)

161 Offering a million dollar payday is likely to drive even obstinate judges to retire.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 05:24 PM (WDjG6)
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As I argue it should be defined, ideology came along with Marx (from Rousseau). It is defined by an academic system of progression which you are "wrong" to resist.

This is something different from being merely, even strongly partisan or having a deep-held opinion.

It's you believe that there is a theory which current reality should be made to correspond to.

And it has been exacerbated by the credo that the "personal is political". Thus, I think if you make the retirement package attractive enough, you're probably likely to get more "enlightened self-interest" types than devout ideologues.

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 05:42 PM (krQz2)

162 /jk

I'll make a prayer for all of you.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2025 05:42 PM (8o16y)

163 Maybe we won't have to wait till 2026 for the dems to take the House

I think that is the plan.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 24, 2025 05:42 PM (a4flb)

164 Burt's going for the clicks today.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 05:43 PM (glfD5)

165 Someone isn't mourning, the person getting his job.

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2025 05:44 PM (+qU29)

166 You can't really say I actually robbed my parent's house.

But you can say I took a lot of their stuff while they weren't there.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2025 05:44 PM (8o16y)

167 Go and look at how fast they are moving these cases against Trump.
They are well past "extraordinary speed."
We're talking light speed.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 24, 2025 05:37 PM (VlU/R)
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More like "Ludicrous Speed".

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 05:44 PM (krQz2)

168 Wicked is terrible. All these mean white people bullied this witch about the color of her skin and that made the things she did bad, not the fact that they were objectively bad.

She's a victim, you see.

The other Wicked Witch who gets killed in Wizard of Oz? No mention of her greenness and bullying.

Posted by: blaster at November 24, 2025 05:45 PM (RoO7G)

169 Apparently the wicked witch killed by Dorothy's house falling on her is in a wheelchair.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 05:45 PM (uwNDP)

170 Maybe we won't have to wait till 2026 for the dems to take the House

I think that is the plan.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 24, 2025 05:42 PM (a4flb)
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That's why I call it "Recreate 2-0-1-8".

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 05:45 PM (krQz2)

171 Thousands mourn Hezbollah commander killed by Israel
_https //www aljazeera com/ video/newsfeed/

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 05:38 PM (glfD5)

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I assume the Muslim Commie Mondami will be attending the funeral as a rising taqqiya star?

/only half-joking

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 24, 2025 05:45 PM (MqnoG)

172 Burt's going for the clicks today.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 05:43 PM (glfD5)

So I'm getting paid too? Everyone who doesn't agree with you 100% of the time must be taking Qatari money?

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 05:46 PM (SOFwB)

173 The true war crime in the new movie is making Michelle Yeoh sing.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 05:47 PM (uwNDP)

174 Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 05:42 PM (HW6XE)

The fact that you are incapable of telling the difference between The Jews and The State of Israel tells me you are either a troll, or deeply stupid.

I am willing to accept the more considerate stance that you are stupid.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 05:47 PM (rbvCR)

175 Yudhishthira, I suspect they both have eating disorders, and are doing the codependency competitive toxic bonding people with eating disorders often do. That and weird drugs.

Ariana stole her current beau from his wife right after she gave birth. I still can't believe she has not dumped him yet. Maybe after the song and dance of the press tour is over. And then she and Cynthia can declare their undying love for each other.

Posted by: LizLem at November 24, 2025 05:47 PM (gWBY1)

176 I assume the Muslim Commie Mondami will be attending the funeral as a rising taqqiya star?

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"It's another taqqiya star-rise ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 24, 2025 05:48 PM (MqnoG)

177 So I'm getting paid too? Everyone who doesn't agree with you 100% of the time must be taking Qatari money?
Posted by: BurtTC
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Nah, you're doing it just to see.
It's one of those days.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 05:48 PM (glfD5)

178 >>> Those Wicked chicks lezzing out all over each other is all people talk about, but it's Hollywood where everyone's gay. You'd think people would be talking about they seem to be high AF on some weird drug all the time.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 05:42 PM (BI5O2)


I recon they are too emaciated to lezz out, there being some minimum energy level needed for exciting the lezz to metastable states of sexual coherence, and they are under that.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 24, 2025 05:48 PM (3uBP9)

179 I assume the Muslim Commie Mondami will be attending the funeral as a rising taqqiya star?

/only half-joking
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 24, 2025 05:45 PM (MqnoG)

I doubt it, he stated during the campaign that he had no intention of visiting the Holy Land

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 05:48 PM (rbvCR)

180 The fact that you are incapable of telling the difference between The Jews and The State of Israel tells me you are either a troll, or deeply stupid.

I am willing to accept the more considerate stance that you are stupid.
Posted by: Kindltot

Lol
You’re one of the I don’t hate Jews I just support Hamas types. Of course you are.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 05:48 PM (HW6XE)

181 She's a victim, you see.

The other Wicked Witch who gets killed in Wizard of Oz? No mention of her greenness and bullying.

Posted by: blaster at November 24, 2025 05:45 PM (RoO7G)
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I'm probably in the minority on this board that I don't mind watching a deconstruction or two.

I saw a theater production of Wicked and I thought they made the point well enough, and not too heavy handed.

However, it's pretty obvious that it fits into the liberal narrative of how villains are created:

1. They were bullied and abused.
2. They just inherited their parents' conservative politics.

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 05:49 PM (krQz2)

182 Stupid. gotcha.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 05:49 PM (rbvCR)

183 Thousands mourn Hezbollah commander killed by Israel

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He was about to convert to Christianity. That's what I'm hearing from my sources.

Posted by: Tucker Delicto at November 24, 2025 05:49 PM (BI5O2)

184 I'd be content to see an actual Federal law that requires witnessed lotteries in Judge assignment that allows for no discretion or rigging.

There's no way to explain the lopsided assignment of cases to these activist judges on such a frequent basis other than purposefully. The judge selection process has not earned the benefit of the doubt.
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With zero sarcasm intended, I'm not sure legally/ethically how Boasberg (as just one example) should not *recuse* himself from hearing even ONE more case involving the Trump administration since he's already been overturned several times and has a slew of other appeals pending. There's no way to be "human" and not have that affect his judgement, one way or the other. When I worked for the Feds, we were admonished to avoid even the *appearance* of a conflict of interest.

Posted by: Crusader, former Federal Bank Examiner at November 24, 2025 05:49 PM (TN0g+)

185 I wouldn't mind some Qatari money....just saying...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 24, 2025 05:50 PM (xcxpd)

186 Hezzbollah commander wasn't an aspiring rapping cleric?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 05:50 PM (uwNDP)

187 Funny how all the “I’m just axing questions about Israel” types never ax questions about any other country. Did you k ow Egypt gets as much money as Israel does from the US? Oddly you never whine about that. Ever.

But bro don’t you dare accuse them of being anti-Semitic. Haves that would be crazy.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 05:50 PM (HW6XE)

188 Only eight percent of Americans believe Democrats “won” the government shutdown battle, a weekly survey from the Economist/YouGov found.

The survey asked respondents, “In your opinion, who won the shutdown battle?”

Across the board, a plurality, 39 percent, said “neither” side won the shutdown battle, followed by 35 percent who said Republicans. Only eight percent deemed Democrats the victors.

Posted by: SMOD at November 24, 2025 05:51 PM (JwQGl)

189 Thousands mourn Hezbollah commander killed by Israel

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Oh so that’s why Tommie Massie is sad today. Makes sense.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 05:51 PM (HW6XE)

190 Nah, you're doing it just to see.
It's one of those days.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 05:48 PM (glfD5)

You read my mind!

Let me know who's going to win the Super Bowl. I'll put all my money on it, and then I'll retire to an island without internet connection.

You won't have to suffer my "comments for clicks" anymore.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 05:52 PM (SOFwB)

191 187 Funny how all the “I’m just axing questions about Israel” types never ax questions about any other country. Did you k ow Egypt gets as much money as Israel does from the US? Oddly you never whine about that. Ever.

But bro don’t you dare accuse them of being anti-Semitic. Haves that would be crazy.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 05:50 PM (HW6XE)
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Over the years, Egypt got in excess of $100 Million from the US to promote tourism. Of course, those dollars were coming from USAID, but there it is.

Posted by: Orson at November 24, 2025 05:53 PM (dIske)

192 I wouldn't mind some Qatari money....just saying...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 24, 2025 05:50 PM (xcxpd)

For all I know they'd pay me a million drachmas, and I'm thinking I'll be filthy rich, only to find out it's worth about $17.42.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 05:54 PM (SOFwB)

193 $17.42?

One large Dominos pizza?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 05:55 PM (uwNDP)

194 Egypt got a lot more than $100M. They gets $2B a year.

Oddly I never hear Kindlot complain about that. Or MTG. Or any of the other “I don’t hate Jews just Israel” types.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 05:55 PM (HW6XE)

195 Over the years, Egypt got in excess of $100 Million from the US to promote tourism. Of course, those dollars were coming from USAID, but there it is.
Posted by: Orson at November 24, 2025 05:53 PM (dIske)

well, an amazing amount went to other issues that most likely got funneled to the Muslim Brotherhood and paid for their Arab Spring, but that is what NGOs do

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 05:56 PM (rbvCR)

196 And from what I understand, the GOP is working hard to do a repeat of the treachery of Paul Ryan and do all that they can to guarantee a Demonic Party win in 2026.
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cf. the panic I read from Reuters this weekend. Something like "Trump seizes the Midterms from the Party."

Or, you know, "leader of the Republican Party leads the Party."

But oh my are they upset that Trump is attempting to set the issues and the candidates.

No fair not following the rule of letting the Dems and the media set the issues and put their thumb on the scale of who the Rs choose.

yeah, Trump knows what's going on; knows the stakes.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 24, 2025 05:56 PM (VlU/R)

197 Over the years, Egypt got in excess of $100 Million from the US to promote tourism. Of course, those dollars were coming from USAID, but there it is.
Posted by: Orson at November 24, 2025 05:53 PM (dIske)

For what it's worth, my position on foreign aid is we should be giving every country that is not the United States precisely zero dollars and zero cents.

And that's me being generous. Part of me wants to threaten the whole lot of them to give us every penny we gave them.

Plus interest.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 05:56 PM (SOFwB)

198 With zero sarcasm intended, I'm not sure legally/ethically how Boasberg (as just one example) should not *recuse* himself from hearing even ONE more case involving the Trump administration since he's already been overturned several times and has a slew of other appeals pending.

Posted by: Crusader, former Federal Bank Examiner at November 24, 2025 05:49 PM (TN0g+)
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Anybody sentient is not falling for the idea that Boasberg keeps being picked "randomly".

I saw this video from this lefty chick who is done with lefty propaganda and over her TDS. She said that J6 was the story she most wanted to be true--but at the time, she knew--even mid-TDS--it wasn't as bad as the Dems were blowing it up to be. But it was still "her team" and pursuing the opposition over "insurrection" was an effective tactic.

So, using the idea out there that there were people who provided no opposition to the J6 narrative that were not convinced it was as bad as was reported, there are probably also people who know it's not "random" anti-Trumpers keep getting these cases.

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 05:57 PM (krQz2)

199 $17.42?

One large Dominos pizza?
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 05:55 PM (uwNDP)

One topping only.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 05:57 PM (SOFwB)

200 Skip, thanks!

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 24, 2025 05:58 PM (xqw19)

201 I recon they are too emaciated to lezz out, there being some minimum energy level needed for exciting the lezz to metastable states of sexual coherence, and they are under that.
Posted by: banana Dream

I saw Metastable States Of Sexual Coherence open for Pure Reason Revolution at The Sheen Center For Thought And Culture in 2019.

https://youtu.be/YU8Bybtunxw

Posted by: mikeski at November 24, 2025 05:58 PM (nhCoE)

202 >>>I'll retire to an island without internet connection.

You won't have to suffer my "comments for clicks" anymore.
Posted by: BurtTC
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youtube.com/watch?v=XZiX0oO_3Ls

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 05:59 PM (glfD5)

203 Oh, we are back to both sharpening knives as well as find the antisemite salami, eh?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 05:59 PM (zZu0s)

204 yeah, Trump knows what's going on; knows the stakes.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 24, 2025 05:56 PM (VlU/R)
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The only thing the GOP is "conserving" is the Swamp.

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 05:59 PM (krQz2)

205
Stupid still can't tell the difference between The Jews and The State of Israel, and also has reading comprehension issues.

But you want dissention and splitting of opinion, you want people fighting over "your" favorite CNN talking point, like a mindless bot. You keep popping off about "not platforming" your enemies, and demanding I adopt your enemies too. But your enemies will always expand in scope, first it was the loons like Alex Jones, and that cryer Glenn Beck, then that antisemite Tucker, and then the crazy Candice. Each one deplatformed, cancelled, targeted. I spent four years losing my job and being deplatformed and shouted down for my opinion about Covid, so you can piss off with your passive aggressive and feminine attacks, or stop making sly, sideways insinuations and justify your open attempts at censorship.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 06:00 PM (rbvCR)

206 Egypt supported hamas through the border tribes

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 24, 2025 06:01 PM (bXbFr)

207 I saw Metastable States Of Sexual Coherence open for Pure Reason Revolution at The Sheen Center For Thought And Culture in 2019.
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I saw both bands open for Corrosion of Conformity at the Chaos Festival.

Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 06:01 PM (TN0g+)

208 You know, Amouranth is another one i do not get. She is not pretty/attractive. Her boobs are a bad fake.

And yet, other people go crazy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 06:01 PM (zZu0s)

209
How is that "protest" at Home Depot not terrorism?

How is that legal??

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 06:02 PM (9h7/m)

210 Here's how I look at the judicial coup;

Every hour, day, week or month the blacked robed savants can keep Trump's administration from fulfilling it's promises is time for the left to regroup, reorganize and reenergize.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 24, 2025 06:02 PM (NwnyJ)

211 Is TDS and anagram of STDs?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 06:03 PM (glfD5)

212 Just dropped in to wish y'all a Happy Thanksgiving!

Posted by: Jasmine Crockett, the next Senator from Texas at November 24, 2025 06:03 PM (0sNs1)

213 Harvard, for instance, acts as a passthrough for a lot of CIA and State Department black money. There are of course many others - but Harvard's foundation (*not* the University itself) receives $9 billion annually in US government grants alone, and a lot of that gets raked off into their various "international initiatives."

They are by no means the only academic endowment the government uses in this shell game, let alone the hundreds of non-academic NGOs they launder money through... It's nearly impossible to unwind just how much money our government is sluicing off to which foreigners, but it's a fuckton.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 06:03 PM (BI5O2)

214 NOOD Somali's

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at November 24, 2025 06:03 PM (VE6XX)

215 Oh, we are back to both sharpening knives as well as find the antisemite salami, eh?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 05:59 PM

Well, yes, but we go for the semite salami.

Posted by: Mohels at November 24, 2025 06:04 PM (0sNs1)

216 You keep popping off about "not platforming" your enemies, and demanding I adopt your enemies too. But your enemies will always expand in scope, first it was the loons like Alex Jones, and that cryer Glenn Beck, then that antisemite Tucker, and then the crazy Candice. Each one deplatformed, cancelled, targeted. I spent four years losing my job and being deplatformed and shouted down for my opinion about Covid, so you can piss off with your passive aggressive and feminine attacks, or stop making sly, sideways insinuations and justify your open attempts at censorship.
Posted by: Kindltot

You are touchy. Very touchy.

I’ve explained this to you before I’m not looking to cancel anyone. You want to spew your hate, go ahead free country. But I also have the freedom to call you a hateful asshole.

So you understand now? Or do I need to explain it again?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 06:05 PM (HW6XE)

217 You know, Amouranth is another one i do not get. She is not pretty/attractive. Her boobs are a bad fake.

And yet, other people go crazy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 06:01 PM (zZu0s)

Never heard of her. Had to look her up. Every photo online appears to be a glamour shot, whilst wearing a pushup bra to emphasis her silicone tits.

Men really do lose dozens of IQ points around fake, pushed up tits.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 06:05 PM (2jpkJ)

218 Lawyers have been interpreting and re-interpreting the Constitution since 1788. The one part that has gone back and forth the most is an unambiguous one sentence amendment.

How can one not despise the profession.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 24, 2025 06:06 PM (KDPiq)

219
Oh so that’s why Tommie Massie is sad today. Makes sense.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

It is sad to lose one of your feenz.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at November 24, 2025 06:07 PM (xG4kz)

220 203 Oh, we are back to both sharpening knives as well as find the antisemite salami, eh?
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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That fella who painted Rape of Tamar had a rather common concept of rape among certain cultures. That thing in his right hand did not look like a penis.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 06:08 PM (glfD5)

221 So you understand now? Or do I need to explain it again?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 06:05 PM (HW6XE)

Nope, you are a concern troll

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 06:09 PM (rbvCR)

222 I haven't called for a single person to be deplatformed. But every time I criticize any of these shameless grifters, people start shrieking that it's some kind of censorship. It is not. It is ridicule.

If you love ridiculous people, fine. But when people ridicule them you can't claim anyone is somehow silencing them. They are not being deplatformed. They still have their platforms and audiences, and if anything, they are being heavily signal-boosted, especially by Leftist media organs.

I ridicule Kristol and Goldberg and French constantly, and nobody claims I'm trying to silence those grifters, but when I ridicule *their* preferred grifters, then it's the dark night of speech control descending on Tucker Carlson.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 06:12 PM (BI5O2)

Major "America First" and "America Only" Twitter Accounts Exposed as Foreign Grifters

X added a feature. If you clicked on a tab called "About this account," you can see where accounts are actually based.

And it turns out that some of the most "pro-American" American First or America Only accounts are located in the patriotic states of Turkey, India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

Bonchie here calls it a "glitch" but I think that's incorrect; X added the feature to increase transparency and so people could gauge the "authenticity" of an account.

The "Gazan" accounts turned out be a hoot and a half, too.

Motasem A Dalloul
@AbujomaaGaza

Inside our tents, we're freezing... My children are trembling...
Gaza is freezing...

People pointed out that when this was posted, Gaza's overnight temperature was 65, and the daytime temperature was 80. That's not "freezing." That's May in San Diego.

But even more wonderfully: This account is based in... well, not Gaza.

The above was posted when it was 65 degrees at night (and 80 during the day), just to give you an idea of the kind of propaganda being spewed. For years, the above account has claimed to be reporting from the ground in Gaza. He's made hundreds of posts pushing fake claims about genocide, famine, and his own supposed hardships. In reality, his account was created in the United Kingdom, and he's currently residing in Poland.

Where, admittedly, the temperature is much colder.

I'm sure you will not be surprised to learn that the most aggressive Jew-hating "America First" accounts are actually based in Islamic countries.

"CounterAIPAC," which rails against foreign Jews subverting American politics through AIPAC, turns out to be, get this, an Egyptian subverting American politics by representing himself as America First.


Other accounts seeking to subvert American politics are owned by leftists in Canada. But they claim they're rootin'-tootin' American patriots.

One odd thing: There are apparently a lot of "Native American" accounts calling for hatred and violence against the white man for stealing their land. They turn out to be based in... Bangladesh.

People have been saying for years that "Twitter is not real life," and it definitely seemed that Nick Fuentes' crew of Hitler-admirers had an outsized presence on Twitter not visible in real-life America.

That's because a lot of them are just Islamic Jew-haters and anti-American trouble-makers and dissent-sowers in foreign countries.

Robby Soave
@robbysoave

I was reflexively disinclined to believe it was all foreign accounts promoting racism and anti-Semitism under the guise of the pro-Trump America First banner. That sounded too easy, and similar to the (now debunked) idea that all the Trump content on Facebook in 2016 was actually Russian bots.

But... this "account based in" feature actually has unmaked tons of groypers as Pakistani, as far as I can tell? Very useful feature, and kudos to Elon Musk and the X team for implementing it. The hate is not coming from inside the house!

This guy, with an all-American face and an all-American family, said his family had converted to Islam and faced "threats of being fired"!

Country where the account is based: West Asia.

I saw one "America First" account exposed as run from Pakistan objecting: Just because I'm in Pakistan, my opinion doesn't count?

Not in American politics, Mohammad. And you seem to have understood your opinion didn't account when you pretended to be an American.

There's a lot of this, as now-exposed-as-foreigners "American influencer" accounts argue that Americans should be accepting of "outside voices" subverting their politics.

Matt Walsh
@MattWalshBlog

17h

We cannot have a coherent or productive political debate if the dialogue includes a whole bunch of random foreigners from all across the world who have no stake in this country, no skin in the game, and no first hand knowledge of our culture at all. It is very important to identify the foreign intruders and bully them mercilessly until they shut up and leave us alone. We cannot talk about or fix any of our problems with a mob of foreigners constantly barging into the conversation.

We are nigh-constantly bombarded with "outside voices" telling us Americans how to vote -- all of the foreign media, most foreign governments. The UK's Labour Party sends over political operatives to interfere in our elections.

We put up with a lot of "outside voices."

I do think we can and should draw the line at dirty foreigners pretending to be Americans. This is astroturf. We didn't accept it when David Axelrod flooded the internet with "Concerned Christian Conservatives" telling us that Barack Obama was the True Conservative Choice for president, and we shouldn't accept these foreign psyop operatives interfering in our elections either.


All this said, X acknowledged that the location provided for some accounts may be inaccurate.


"This is an important first step to securing the integrity of the global town square. We plan to provide many more ways for users to verify the authenticity of the content they see on X," Bier wrote on X on Saturday.

Not everyone was eager to reveal the origin of their accounts. Users in places that limit freedom of speech could face political repercussions. Some users called it forced doxxing. Others said that if a user created an account using a VPN routed through another country, the location information may not be accurate.

On Saturday, X removed information about where some accounts were created. Bier said the data "was not 100 percent," especially for older accounts, and that the company plans to "bring it back by Tuesday."

Five hours later, he posted again: "I need a drink."

Late Sunday, he added that there would be an upgrade in 12 hours and that location accuracy would be "nearly 99.99%."

X appears to have factored in the VPN point. On Monday morning, Business Insider tested the "About This Account" feature from a device using a VPN and found a notice that warns the "country or region may not be accurate" due to the use of a proxy.

The location function also comes with an accuracy disclaimer, which states: "The country or region that an account is based can be impacted by recent travel or temporary relocation. This data may not be accurate and can change periodically."

I've seen people say that while some podcasts -- like Tucker Carlson's -- have big ratings, most of those viewers are actually foreigners who are, for reasons you can guess, very invested in his heavy anti-Israel/anti-Jewish propaganda.

I don't know if there's any way to prove that. It makes sense but I don't know who would have those numbers. Tucker Carlson would -- but he's not revealing them.

Posted by: Ace at 03:40 PM




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1 WHO IS FIRST? BLADE IS FIRST.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 24, 2025 03:40 PM (iFTx/)

2 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 03:41 PM (Zz0t1)

3 Slanted coverage.

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 03:41 PM (krQz2)

4 "Tanned, rested and ready."

- - - - - - - Lamont THE Big Dummy

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 03:41 PM (Zz0t1)

5 Who let in the Italicans?

Posted by: Michael the Texan at November 24, 2025 03:41 PM (ReTq+)

6 Doesn't the advent of VPN's make getting the IP location accurate, difficult?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 03:42 PM (Zz0t1)

7 I've seen people say that while some podcasts -- like Tucker Carlson's -- have big ratings, most of those viewers are actually foreigners who are, for reasons you can guess, very invested in his heavy anti-Israel/anti-Jewish propaganda.

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10 million Indians watching and encouraging Tucker to go anti-Semite is a terrible reflection on the American right.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 03:42 PM (GBKbO)

8 this is yuge!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 24, 2025 03:43 PM (Cjt/F)

9 Other accounts seeking to subvert American politics are owned by leftists in Canada. But they claim they're rootin'-tootin' American patriots.

So, David Frum.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 24, 2025 03:43 PM (gKWVE)

10 I’m already loving the new feature
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Ba-da-bop-ba-pa.

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 03:43 PM (krQz2)

11 I love Elon in a non homosexual way.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 03:43 PM (zZu0s)

12 I love this.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 24, 2025 03:43 PM (DRSnL)

13 6 Doesn't the advent of VPN's make getting the IP location accurate, difficult?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 03:42 PM (Zz0t1)

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I've seen it asserted that X has taken this into account.

I dunno.

But even then, it would feel like more of these people who have built livelihoods on pretending to be American from halfway across the world would have invested $8 a month on a VPN to to the minimum required to pretend to be American.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 03:44 PM (GBKbO)

14 Sargon of Akkad had a video on this. Supposedly the Department of Homeland Security came up as being from Tel Aviv.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 24, 2025 03:44 PM (ExV1e)

15 They are also using AI images for their profile pictures.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 03:44 PM (+k/kq)

16 "Native American" accounts calling for hatred and violence against the white man for stealing their land. They turn out to be based in... Bangladesh.
......

I blame AI.

Posted by: wth at November 24, 2025 03:44 PM (v0R5T)

17 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2025 03:44 PM (Wnv9h)

18 So, David Frum.
Posted by: gKWVE at November 24, 2025 03:43 PM (gKWVE)

Also David French. But replace Canadian leftists with 'wife's boyfriends.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 03:44 PM (zZu0s)

19 Do the Italicans have to spend 30 days’ quarantine in the Barrel when they first land on AoS Island?

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 03:44 PM (77rzZ)

20 Can’t believe anything on the interweb any more. What’s a guy to do?

Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 03:44 PM (PCK5/)

21 "Inside our tents, we're freezing... My children are trembling... Gaza is freezing..."

Are there actually retards out there that think it's freezing in the fucking middle east? I guess any weather can get freaky, but Gaza is located in a hot environment. Only a few months ago, they were boo-hooing about a heat wave there.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 24, 2025 03:45 PM (iFTx/)

22 If you can't beat em, join em. And then stink up their reputation. - The Left

Posted by: Rex B at November 24, 2025 03:45 PM (UoF3w)

23 In fairness, some of the antiMAGA 'Murrkins from foreign IPs is coming from expats living in, say, the Philippines where Chris Hansen can't find them.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 24, 2025 03:45 PM (gKWVE)

24 Can’t believe anything on the interweb any more. What’s a guy to do?
Posted by: tubal
......

Enjoy the bewbs.

Posted by: wth at November 24, 2025 03:45 PM (v0R5T)

25 One odd thing: There are apparently a lot of "Native American" accounts calling for hatred and violence against the white man for stealing their land. They turn out to be based in... Bangladesh.

I have to say this gave me a dark laugh. I mean Bangladesh is right next to India and contains native Indians 😉

Whoever came up with this feature is very wise.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 24, 2025 03:46 PM (Nx5jP)

26 We need more H1Bs. H1B is most American thing of all time. Love America, Love H1Bs

Posted by: Totally not Pajeet my name is Bob lifetime MAGA voter at November 24, 2025 03:46 PM (jGJov)

27 Are there actually retards out there that think it's freezing in the fucking middle east?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 24, 2025 03:45 PM (iFTx/)

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You already know the answer to this.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 24, 2025 03:46 PM (DRSnL)

28 21 "Inside our tents, we're freezing... My children are trembling... Gaza is freezing..."

Are there actually retards out there that think it's freezing in the fucking middle east? I guess any weather can get freaky, but Gaza is located in a hot environment. Only a few months ago, they were boo-hooing about a heat wave there.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 24, 2025 03:45 PM (iFTx/)

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"I don't have enough food to starve my Israeli captive properly!"
-Gazan university professor

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 03:46 PM (GBKbO)

29 People have been saying for years that "Twitter is not real life," and it definitely seemed that Nick Fuentes' crew of Hitler-admirers had an outsized presence on Twitter not visible in real-life America.
---
Look. Just because you're exposed to more of it online than real life, doesn't mean it's "taking over".

I've been trying to tell people on the "Right" that we've been ignoring the "Alt Right" for almost a decade now.

It's like getting concerned that the entire right could be swayed by simply seeing more libertarian content.

I'm right. We can ignore Fuentes.

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 03:46 PM (krQz2)

30 Twatter is a lowest common denominator sewer populated by retards screaming into the void thinking that they have some sort of "influence".

Posted by: Truck Monkey at November 24, 2025 03:47 PM (Bo9Yf)

31 I shan't believe it.. Everyone knows if it's on the Internet it has to be true...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 24, 2025 03:47 PM (VE6XX)

32 Strange world we live in - everything is fake and gay.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 24, 2025 03:47 PM (n5tGW)

33 It does occasionally snow in Jerusalem. But it’s inland and at a higher elevation than Gaza.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 03:47 PM (77rzZ)

34 And 99% of the "MAGA civil war" is astroturf

Posted by: steevy at November 24, 2025 03:47 PM (YwEeS)

35 SPONGE!!!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2025 03:44 PM (Wnv9h)


*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 03:47 PM (Zz0t1)

36 I bet that most of those accounts are also just AI bots...

Posted by: EFG at November 24, 2025 03:47 PM (vuQMF)

37 >>>But... this "account based in" feature actually has unmaked tons of groypers as Pakistani, as far as I can tell? Very useful feature, and kudos to Elon Musk and the X team for implementing it. The hate is not coming from inside the house!

And this is where I say I told you fucking so. Dude on here crowing that Fuentes has 5 M followers. BFD. How many are bots? How many are goat-admiring Pakistanis?

GTFO here with your Fuentes represents disaffected American youth FUD.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 03:48 PM (dK+Kv)

38 This is probably the funniest thing I've seen all month. People have suspected for ages that all the "Elon Musk is real MAGA" accounts from earlier this year were Indians, but now it seems that he entire Islamic Ummah is crap-posting full time instead of, you know, working or something preoductive.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 24, 2025 03:48 PM (Dg7ng)

39 So wait, how many pro-Israeli accounts told us they would "do the needful" in Gaza?

I mean that should have been a hint right?

And what came first the Indian pro-Israel bloggers or the Pakistani anti-Israel ones?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2025 03:48 PM (sKqQm)

40 Twatter is a lowest common denominator sewer populated by retards screaming into the void thinking that they have some sort of "influence".
Posted by: Truck Monkey at November 24, 2025 03:47 PM (Bo9Yf)


*leans in*

*waves*

Posted by: BlueSky at November 24, 2025 03:48 PM (Zz0t1)

41 Twatter is a lowest common denominator sewer populated by retards screaming into the void thinking that they have some sort of "influence".

Thought that was Reddit or Twitch.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 03:48 PM (+k/kq)

42 35 SPONGE!!!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 24, 2025 03:44 PM (Wnv9h)


*fistbump*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 03:47 PM (Zz0t1)

I thought you didn’t like anything/one??

Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 03:48 PM (PCK5/)

43 >>14 Sargon of Akkad had a video on this. Supposedly the Department of Homeland Security came up as being from Tel Aviv.

no, that was a fake tweet. It claimed DHS was located in "Tel Aviv, Israel." Twitter never identifies the city, just the country. Someone mocked up a fake tweet and published it as a screencap and then a lot of people retweeted it.

the foreigners being exposed by this have an interest in suggesting the feature is all wrong.

Posted by: ace at November 24, 2025 03:49 PM (1wjle)

44 Are there actually retards out there that think it's freezing in the fucking middle east? I guess any weather can get freaky, but Gaza is located in a hot environment. Only a few months ago, they were boo-hooing about a heat wave there.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 24, 2025 03:45 PM (iFTx/)

---
I know from living in the Mojave desert that your blood *does* thin out and you can get just as cold as you do in Northern states at times.

However, I don't think 65 is that temp.

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 03:49 PM (krQz2)

45 Enjoy the bewbs.

Posted by: wth at November 24, 2025 03:45 PM (v0R5T)

Spoiler Alert: It's AI.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 03:49 PM (dK+Kv)

46 Strange world we live in - everything is fake and gay.

Like David French's Thai mistress...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2025 03:49 PM (sKqQm)

47 Remember that time that a Supreme Court Justice of the United States, RBG, cited the ... South African constitution in one of her opinions?

There are a whole lot of Americans that think the world should have a say in what goes on here ....

The parts of the world that agree with them, of course.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 24, 2025 03:49 PM (VlU/R)

48 29 I've been trying to tell people on the "Right" that we've been ignoring the "Alt Right" for almost a decade now.

It's like getting concerned that the entire right could be swayed by simply seeing more libertarian content.

I'm right. We can ignore Fuentes.

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 03:46 PM (krQz2)

======

One sliver of the alt-right I do think is real and has a good point.

Those who advocate for a militaristic Christianity in the face of Islam, those who glorify Ferdinand II for the reconquista.

I don't think knocking those who idolize Christian kings who beat back Islam 1,000 years ago is a good thing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 03:49 PM (GBKbO)

49 Which reminds me: When are we going to get to see Barack Obama's birth certificate?
Is he or is he not an actual American?
If so, where is his birth certificate?

Posted by: Speller at November 24, 2025 03:49 PM (pSotA)

50 37 And this is where I say I told you fucking so. Dude on here crowing that Fuentes has 5 M followers. BFD. How many are bots? How many are goat-admiring Pakistanis?

GTFO here with your Fuentes represents disaffected American youth FUD.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 03:48 PM (dK+Kv)

=====

"But the podcast numbers are all American men. Trump told me."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 03:50 PM (GBKbO)

51 This is probably the funniest thing I've seen all month. People have suspected for ages that all the "Elon Musk is real MAGA" accounts from earlier this year were Indians, but now it seems that he entire Islamic Ummah is crap-posting full time instead of, you know, working or something preoductive.
Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 24, 2025 03:48 PM (Dg7ng)

The speculation is that they're doing it to farm engagement because a payment from Twitter which would be almost unnoticeable to us would be significant to them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 24, 2025 03:50 PM (ExV1e)

52 We're living in interesting times where seemingly every story is a "big story". But this one strikes me as particularly "big", in that we were being lead to believe that there was a lot of "internal debate" about a couple of important ideological positions, but it turns out that there isn't nearly the level of debate we imagined. Instapundit had a link earlier today that alleged that nearly *100 PERCENT* of the posting opposing limitation on H1Bs was from.....wait for it....India. The pretended to be Americans, but were posting from India!

Trump can continue forcing Dems to take the 20 in 80/20 positions and demonstrate that it is indeed the 20 with the sourcing of the opposition posts.

Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 03:50 PM (TN0g+)

53 I thought you didn’t like anything/one??
Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 03:48 PM (PCK5/)


Jordan has started a campaign against me and wants me banned because I burned her finger while frying the bacon 2 years ago.

She's been planning this one for a while.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 03:50 PM (Zz0t1)

54

Freezing? Too bad.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 24, 2025 03:50 PM (3ek7K)

55 Are there actually retards out there that think it's freezing in the fucking middle east?

The Joo weather machine can be set to "localized arctic blast".

Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2025 03:51 PM (Riz8t)

56 53 I thought you didn’t like anything/one??
Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 03:48 PM (PCK5/)


Jordan has started a campaign against me and wants me banned because I burned her finger while frying the bacon 2 years ago.

She's been planning this one for a while.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 03:50 PM (Zz0t1)

Hell hath no fury like a woman burned!!

Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 03:51 PM (PCK5/)

57 Like David French's Thai ladyboi mistress...

Fixed.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 03:51 PM (+k/kq)

58 Walsh: >> random foreigners from all across the world who have no stake in this country,

Stop being a pansy Matt, they want us destroyed. They see this as war.

We are nuts to allow them any access at all to our social media.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 24, 2025 03:51 PM (8VwBr)

59
Hell hath no fury like a woman burned!!
Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 03:51 PM (PCK5/)


I'm learning.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 03:51 PM (Zz0t1)

60 I've long thought that at least 75% of these anti-USA and anti-Israel accounts were trolls, bots, paid propaganda, or gay rentboys wiping semen off their faces between johns.

It's the same for virtually all social media. Go to any exotic car forum and probably half the posts are fake and gay, from 14 year olds posing as billionaires, to obvious bots shilling for certain companies or dealers, to trolls who just like to stir up trouble.

If there are powers that take the time and effort to troll obscure forums like "Ferrari Dicksmokers United," then for sure there will be even more trolls trying to influence political positions.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 24, 2025 03:51 PM (iFTx/)

61 no, that was a fake tweet. It claimed DHS was located in "Tel Aviv, Israel." Twitter never identifies the city, just the country. Someone mocked up a fake tweet and published it as a screencap and then a lot of people retweeted it.

the foreigners being exposed by this have an interest in suggesting the feature is all wrong.

Posted by: ace at November 24, 2025 03:49 PM (1wjle)

Gotcha. I don't twitter, personally, and he didn't investigate. I did think it strange... more fakeness makes sense.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 24, 2025 03:51 PM (ExV1e)

62 'Trust no one.'
- says some guy in a movie

Posted by: Eromero at November 24, 2025 03:52 PM (LHPAg)

63 New Aftyn Behn quote up:

"My therapist always asks me to transcribe my dreams and the recurring dream I've had is standing up in a Cafeteria full of women and saying 'I don't want children. I want power!'"


Turns out, she not only hates Nashville but all known life in the universe. She's basically a Dalek with boobs. EXTERMINATE

Posted by: banana Dream at November 24, 2025 03:52 PM (3uBP9)

64 It claimed DHS was located in "Tel Aviv, Israel." Twitter never identifies the city, just the country. Someone mocked up a fake tweet

Sure ace, that is just what THEY want us to believe

Posted by: steevy at November 24, 2025 03:53 PM (YwEeS)

65 They did their job. GenZ hates Israel.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 03:53 PM (HW6XE)

66 Apparently IP blocks can change ownership, so to get an accurate representation of where an account was created, they would need to pair the IP at account creation with *historical* data for where that IP was at the time. This was not done at first, but may have been fixed by now.

I don't even have a Twitter/X account, but enough of our politics take place on the platform that I use Twitchy (among others) to keep tabs on it.

Posted by: SciVo at November 24, 2025 03:53 PM (vQLHf)

67 "My therapist always asks me to transcribe my dreams and the recurring dream I've had is standing up in a Cafeteria full of women and saying 'I don't want children. I want power!'"

That's pretty much leftist politics in a nutshell.

F you normies I want power.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2025 03:53 PM (sKqQm)

68 Dear friends, I am native born American, living in [ throws dart at map] Lizard Lick, North Carolina, and I have much worries about the Jews and their control of President Ronald Trump. Please, bismillah, to listen to Tucker Carlson for all facts on truth, justice and American ways. Thank you very much.

Posted by: Bubba J. Habib at November 24, 2025 03:53 PM (mADJX)

69 Aftyn Behn

Lady MacBeth just used the QUija board to tell you to chill out.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 03:54 PM (+k/kq)

70 I thought you didn’t like anything/one??
Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 03:48 PM (PCK5/)

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I meant celebrity-wise. He likes a few real people.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 24, 2025 03:54 PM (DRSnL)

71 Enjoy the bewbs.

Posted by: wth at November 24, 2025 03:45 PM (v0R5T)

Spoiler Alert: It's AI.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon
......

You have just destroyed the internet's reason for existence.

Posted by: wth at November 24, 2025 03:54 PM (v0R5T)

72 Especially a ginger woman burned.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 03:54 PM (77rzZ)

73 Tucker's latest "show?" BUY GOLD!!!

Posted by: Frasier Crane at November 24, 2025 03:54 PM (bNf8H)

74 I thought Aftyn Behn was a failed Fiat car model.

Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 03:54 PM (PCK5/)

75
Can we cut the shit with the "Asia" fucking bullshit?

Asia is a fucking Continent. It's not a country. And it's NOT a fucking RACE and it's Not a Nationality.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 03:54 PM (FzTD6)

76 I meant celebrity-wise. He likes a few real people.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 24, 2025 03:54 PM (DRSnL)


But only a few.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 03:55 PM (Zz0t1)

77 Wonder how long it will be before they can figure out how to "mask" their location.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 24, 2025 03:55 PM (qBdHI)

78 They did their job. GenZ hates Israel.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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Would you please just stop it?

Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 03:55 PM (TN0g+)

79 52 We're living in interesting times where seemingly every story is a "big story". But this one strikes me as particularly "big", in that we were being lead to believe that there was a lot of "internal debate" about a couple of important ideological positions, but it turns out that there isn't nearly the level of debate we imagined. Instapundit had a link earlier today that alleged that nearly *100 PERCENT* of the posting opposing limitation on H1Bs was from.....wait for it....India. The pretended to be Americans, but were posting from India!

Trump can continue forcing Dems to take the 20 in 80/20 positions and demonstrate that it is indeed the 20 with the sourcing of the opposition posts.
Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 03:50 PM (TN0g+)


Hate to break the news to you but Trump is on that 20. He doubled down on H1Bs last week after the disastrous Fox interview.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 03:55 PM (HW6XE)

80 Bonchie here calls it a "glitch" but I think that's incorrect; X added the feature to increase transparency and so people could gauge the "authenticity" of an account.

==

It absolutely is not. I saw the exchange between X top engineer and a very popular conservative blogger, who asked for it to be added. because the discourse in the US is being manipulated to the nth degree by bad actors from every terrorist shithole on the planet. so he said "give me a few days".

Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 03:55 PM (g47mK)

81 This is why I avoid X.

Every time I check it out I find so much crap. There are good accounts, but even those seem to spam with content to get clicks and only one in ten posts is worth reading.

At this point, I figure if there is good content on X, then eventually Ace or someone will post it for me to see.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 24, 2025 03:56 PM (8VwBr)

82 AI Bewbs = Cartoon bewbs

as in...weird and not even worth looking at

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2025 03:56 PM (sKqQm)

83 This constant hatred of Jews is becoming as common as pickleball and cornhole. I guess, same as it ever was.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at November 24, 2025 03:56 PM (WFC1M)

84 One sliver of the alt-right I do think is real and has a good point.

Those who advocate for a militaristic Christianity in the face of Islam, those who glorify Ferdinand II for the reconquista.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 03:49 PM (GBKbO)
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"My" way, if people feel that, they can express it, make their points and win over the people who find it sound.

We don't' have to ignore any more of the "Alt Right" than those aren't making good points.

I said last week that the non-Marxian end of politics had the standard: "Make a good argument and win over the people that you can." I don't see any reason that can't go for the proponents of the "Alt Right" who make sense occasionally.

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 03:56 PM (krQz2)

85 Hate to break the news to you but Trump is on that 20. He doubled down on H1Bs last week after the disastrous Fox interview.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 03:55 PM (HW6XE)


Because he's a stupid poopy head that has no clue what he's doing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 03:56 PM (Zz0t1)

86
Fucking asia.

Asia this. Asia that. West asia. East asia. She's asian. He looks asian.

Asia is, literally, 65% of the World's fucking total Population and land mass, and includes about a hundred countries.

Stop saying fucking asia.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 03:56 PM (FzTD6)

87 I would like to flick Aftyn's Behn

Posted by: Truck Monkey at November 24, 2025 03:57 PM (Bo9Yf)

88 People have been saying for years that "Twitter is not real life," and it definitely seemed that Nick Fuentes' crew of Hitler-admirers had an outsized presence on Twitter not visible in real-life America.

That's because a lot of them are just Islamic Jew-haters and anti-American trouble-makers and dissent-sowers in foreign countries.

Its Go Time Donald hardest hit.

Posted by: Guy's Nock Fuentes is Super Powerful, Swearsies! at November 24, 2025 03:57 PM (/+w2K)

89 80 Bonchie here calls it a "glitch" but I think that's incorrect; X added the feature to increase transparency and so people could gauge the "authenticity" of an account.

==

It absolutely is not. I saw the exchange between X top engineer and a very popular conservative blogger, who asked for it to be added. because the discourse in the US is being manipulated to the nth degree by bad actors from every terrorist shithole on the planet. so he said "give me a few days".

Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 03:55 PM (g47mK)

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The glitch was that it was released early for about an hour late night one night this weekend. Then they rolled it out as a permanent feature the next day.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 03:57 PM (GBKbO)

90 Let's go breathe Elon's Musk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWZYP5jn5w4

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 03:57 PM (+k/kq)

91 Well, I mean, these are American accounts, insofar as they're all certainly being funded and turned against us by one of our institutions.

I'm guessing that, in the specific instance of whipping up division over the weather controllers, the checks are coming from Foggy Bottom. They have the longstanding hatred of Israel, and I'm sure they are furious at Trump for wiping away all Blinken's machinations and generally humiliating the State Department in the Middle East this year.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 03:57 PM (BI5O2)

92 Can we cut the shit with the "Asia" fucking bullshit?

Asia is a fucking Continent. It's not a country. And it's NOT a fucking RACE and it's Not a Nationality.
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I still prefer Aja to Asia.

Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 03:57 PM (TN0g+)

93 Wonder how long it will be before they can figure out how to "mask" their location.

How many free VPN services are there? How difficult would it be for a bad actor to create one?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2025 03:57 PM (olroh)

94
"asia" is the new word for Generic.

It means literally Nothing, at this point.

FUCKING IDIOTS.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 03:57 PM (FzTD6)

95 Stop saying fucking asia.

This guy gets it.

Also, has anyone seen my bag of cocaine?

Posted by: Hunter Biden at November 24, 2025 03:57 PM (sKqQm)

96 I'm sure you will not be surprised to learn that the most aggressive Jew-hating "America First" accounts are actually based in Islamic countries.

==

No. Not at all.

Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 03:58 PM (g47mK)

97 Asia?

It was the heat of the moment.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 03:58 PM (+k/kq)

98 Just go watch say Asmongold's chat when any Jewish or Jewish sounding name is mentioned. Same for any big streamer really.

Posted by: steevy at November 24, 2025 03:58 PM (YwEeS)

99 How many free VPN services are there? How difficult would it be for a bad actor to create one?

It isn't hard and you don't even need a formal service. Just get an AWS/Azure account in the region you want to pretend you are from

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2025 03:58 PM (sKqQm)

100 96 I'm sure you will not be surprised to learn that the most aggressive Jew-hating "America First" accounts are actually based in Islamic countries.

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No. Not at all.
Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 03:58 PM (g47mK)

So, Dearborn included?

Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 03:58 PM (PCK5/)

101 I'm sure you will not be surprised to learn that the most aggressive Jew-hating "America First" accounts are actually based in Islamic countries.
_________

I am surprised. But I also think the stripper really likes me.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 24, 2025 03:58 PM (iFTx/)

102 GenZ hates Israel.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

My Gen Z son doesn't .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 24, 2025 03:59 PM (PFs9e)

103 Catturd posted that his account is troll free for the first time. Do you think Sid will get the hint?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 24, 2025 03:59 PM (bfwj/)

104 Every time I check it out I find so much crap.

I found, about a year ago, that X had improved drastically since the last time I used it. But I only using the “following” tab and never the “for you” except those times when it “accidentally” switches.

But I also unsubscribe from anyone whose postings regularly monopolize my browser window, or whose postings are consistently crap.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2025 03:59 PM (olroh)

105 Apparently, what they are doing is tying the credit card or account used when people sign up for the checkmark or cash credit, and they are looking to see where other purchases made with that account occur. So they have the IP address, and they have financial info.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 24, 2025 03:59 PM (8VwBr)

106 So long, and thanks for all the bewbs

Posted by: horny space fairing dolphins at November 24, 2025 03:59 PM (3uBP9)

107 The information wars are getting increasingly byzantine in their operational tactics and strategy. How much of everything over the last few years associated with politics has actually been astro-turf, I wonder? My estimate is "oodles".

Posted by: Paco at November 24, 2025 04:00 PM (mADJX)

108 Asia... when all my dime dancing is through
I run to you

Posted by: Truck Monkey at November 24, 2025 04:00 PM (Bo9Yf)

109 "Tara Reid, 50, claims she was DRUGGED at Chicago bar"

This bums me out. She has my number, she knows how I feel about her, and knows that I have all the antidotes to the common Chicago-area love potions. Does she give me a call? Nope.

Posted by: gp at November 24, 2025 04:00 PM (4kcNT)

110 I'm sure you will not be surprised to learn that the most aggressive Jew-hating "America First" accounts are actually based in Islamic countries.
_________
I am surprised. But I also think the stripper really likes me.
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She's perfect for you, man, there's got to be somebody for me.

Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 04:00 PM (TN0g+)

111 Can we cut the shit with the "Asia" fucking bullshit?



But are there still rains in Africa?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 04:01 PM (Zz0t1)

112 Thanks Ace, I'm not on Twitter and I was not aware of this.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 24, 2025 04:01 PM (xcxpd)

113 Accounts using a proxy are tagged as such, but it's too late for many of the biggest frauds, whose actual locations were screenshotted by eager beavers in just the brief early rollout.

Posted by: SciVo at November 24, 2025 04:01 PM (vQLHf)

114 This bums me out. She has my number, she knows how I feel about her, and knows that I have all the antidotes to the common Chicago-area love potions. Does she give me a call? Nope.
Posted by: gp at November 24, 2025 04:00 PM (4kcNT)

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Have you seen her recent pics? You don't want her to call you.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 24, 2025 04:01 PM (DRSnL)

115 n fairness, some of the antiMAGA 'Murrkins from foreign IPs is coming from expats living in, say, the Philippines where Chris Hansen can't find them.
Posted by: gKWVE at November 24, 2025 03:45 PM (gKWVE)

lol, as soon as the feature appeared, and they were busted, most all of them started claiming they are "American !! WORKING OVERSEAS!"

Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 04:01 PM (g47mK)

116 "Tara Reid, 50, claims she was DRUGGED at Chicago bar"
......

then she was killed in a sharknado.

Posted by: wth at November 24, 2025 04:02 PM (v0R5T)

117 I'm sure you will not be surprised to learn that the most aggressive Jew-hating "America First" accounts are actually based in Islamic countries.
________

Aren't there enough rabid leftwing America-hating lunatics in America to satisfy anti-American and -Israeli demand?

Or is this yet another industry where Americans aren't willing or able to do the work, and we need to import more foreign workers? H1B, baby!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 24, 2025 04:02 PM (iFTx/)

118 Asia?

It was the heat of the moment.
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Only time will tell.

Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 04:02 PM (TN0g+)

119 MMGA! Make Movies Great Again!

IMPORTANT: President Trump is pressing Paramount to make 4th "Rush Hour" movie (yes, really)

https://is.gd/koQsEW

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Never happen. First had no fags, no trannies, no girl power. Plus it might be fun and that goes against everything progressivism stands for.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 24, 2025 04:02 PM (L/fGl)

120 How about toto or styx

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 24, 2025 04:02 PM (bXbFr)

121 Wait, how many morons are actually in India?😳

Posted by: steevy at November 24, 2025 04:02 PM (YwEeS)

122 "Tara Reid, 50, claims she was DRUGGED at Chicago bar"


No one would really need to drug her at this point, but it's a sad state of affairs if they really did. Her expiration date was shortly after she got the worst boob job in human history.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 04:02 PM (Zz0t1)

123 Stop saying fucking asia.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 03:56 PM (FzTD6)

Fucking Asia.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 24, 2025 04:02 PM (ExV1e)

124 I thought Asia was a rock super group. Or a stripper.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 24, 2025 04:03 PM (bfwj/)

125 Aren't there enough rabid leftwing America-hating lunatics in America to satisfy anti-American and -Israeli demand?

==

that's the whole deal, not so much; so they had to make it a thing and amplify the numbers , then the "followers theory" (forget the real name , but there was a study in the 50s) kicked in.

Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 04:03 PM (g47mK)

126 Stop saying fucking asia.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 03:56 PM (FzTD6)
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We hate fucking Asia!

Grifting proggers!

Posted by: Monkeys at November 24, 2025 04:03 PM (krQz2)

127 "Have you seen her recent pics? You don't want her to call you."

The heart (and other organs) want what they wants. She has a nice complexion.

Posted by: gp at November 24, 2025 04:04 PM (4kcNT)

128 124 I thought Asia was a rock super group. Or a stripper.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 24, 2025 04:03 PM (bfwj/)

It can be both!

Def also a porn star.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 24, 2025 04:04 PM (xcxpd)

129 I think if muzzie countries spent as much time trying to improve their shithole countries as they do on hating jews they might actually have prosperous, peaceful places to live.


Posted by: Common Sense at November 24, 2025 04:04 PM (1mUlr)

130 West asia would probably middle east

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 24, 2025 04:05 PM (bXbFr)

131 The things I get into around here

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2025 04:05 PM (+qU29)

132 Europe is just a subcontinent of Asia, like India.

I think we should just start including Europe as part of Asia. Demote it to a subcontinent, the way Pluto got demoted to a minor planet. I mean, the effing Urals as a continental boundary? Give me a break.

The only reason Europe is its own "continent" was because the European racists didn't want to be seen as inhabiting the same continent as the Orientals.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 04:05 PM (77rzZ)

133
Have you seen her recent pics? You don't want her to call you.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 24, 2025 04:01 PM (DRSnL)


She WAS cute as a button. Now, she looks.........Asian.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 04:05 PM (Zz0t1)

134 Tell me again all about foreign election interference.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2025 04:06 PM (9ipOP)

135 I was going to say I've never seen Tara Reid in a movie outside of sharknado but she was in the big lebowsky

Posted by: horny space fairing dolphins at November 24, 2025 04:06 PM (3uBP9)

136 Check out Stormy Daniels as a then and now comparison.

Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 04:06 PM (PCK5/)

137 I wonder how many polls [spit] are full of non-Americans as well. I get text messages about polls all the time (which I ignore). How hard is it to fake a US connection or spoof a US phone number and presto - you get to give your opinion about ICE deportations?

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 24, 2025 04:06 PM (Dg7ng)

138 Some AI sez "The name Asia is believed to have originated from the Mycenaean epithet "Aswiya," which referred to a region in western Anatolia."

Blame the Mycenaeans. History shows you'll be right more often than wrong blaming them.

Posted by: gp at November 24, 2025 04:06 PM (4kcNT)

139 Tell me again all about foreign election interference.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2025 04:06 PM (9ipOP)


Doesn't happen. And there's no foreign money sent to candidates either.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 04:07 PM (Zz0t1)

140 Reminds me of that clip show of supernatural where dean kept waking up

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 24, 2025 04:07 PM (bXbFr)

141 calming down the sock

Posted by: banana Dream at November 24, 2025 04:07 PM (3uBP9)

142 Steve Hackett tells a story about GTR that kind of illuminates Steve Howe's relationship with Asia.

They were both in it, to some degree for the money. But Howe was the one who really pushed for a second album, just to cash in on GTR's initial success.

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 04:07 PM (krQz2)

143 But I also unsubscribe from anyone whose postings regularly monopolize my browser window, or whose postings are consistently crap.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair

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Yeah, "for you" is horrible.

I am not on it enough to know the accounts worth following and everyone I add ends up being way too post happy.

It needs a filter where you only get the high engagement posts from people you half-follow. Or something.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 24, 2025 04:07 PM (8VwBr)

144 @132 I doubt the Asian racists want to be connected to the Europeans either

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 24, 2025 04:07 PM (bfwj/)

145 Aren't there enough rabid leftwing America-hating lunatics in America to satisfy anti-American and -Israeli demand?

More jobs Americans won’t do?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2025 04:07 PM (olroh)

146 "Tara Reid, 50, claims she was DRUGGED at Chicago bar"


No one would really need to drug her at this point, but it's a sad state of affairs if they really did. Her expiration date was shortly after she got the worst boob job in human history.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 04:02 PM (Zz0t1)
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I'll bet any amount of $$ she partied too hard on heavy drugs and booze, and then used the "I wuz drugged" as a cover story when the video went public.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 24, 2025 04:07 PM (iFTx/)

147 My therapist always asks me to transcribe my dreams and the recurring dream I've had is standing up in a Cafeteria full of women and saying 'I don't want children. I want power!'

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Lol, do you have a link for this? I couldn't find it on Google.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 04:08 PM (BI5O2)

148 She WAS cute as a button. Now, she looks.........Asian.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 04:05 PM (Zz0t1)
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No yellow.

Posted by: Hunter at November 24, 2025 04:08 PM (krQz2)

149 Tara Reid is barhopping in Chicago? I guess she's searching for that 2:00am perfect man.

Posted by: wth at November 24, 2025 04:08 PM (v0R5T)

150 So the Ambassador Huckabee and convicted traitor Jonathan Pollard lovefest was not a slap in the face to American citizens but just anti-Semitic Qatari AI slop?

Posted by: TITP at November 24, 2025 04:08 PM (r3hkP)

151 Fucking asia.

Asia this. Asia that. West asia. East asia. She's asian. He looks asian.

Asia is, literally, 65% of the World's fucking total Population and land mass, and includes about a hundred countries.

Stop saying fucking asia.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 03:56 PM (FzTD6)

...I never meant to be so bad to you.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 24, 2025 04:08 PM (xcxpd)

152 Check out Stormy Daniels as a then and now comparison.
------

Belay that order if you value your eyesight.

Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 04:08 PM (TN0g+)

153 Steve Hackett tells a story about GTR that kind of illuminates Steve Howe's relationship with Asia.

They were both in it, to some degree for the money. But Howe was the one who really pushed for a second album, just to cash in on GTR's initial success.
Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 04:07 PM (krQz2)
_____

They were both involved with a Nissan supercar?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 24, 2025 04:09 PM (iFTx/)

154 Tara Reid once said she thought whale sharks were the result of whales and sharks having sex.

Not the sharpest quill on the hedgehog, that one.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 04:09 PM (77rzZ)

155 84 One sliver of the alt-right I do think is real and has a good point.

Those who advocate for a militaristic Christianity in the face of Islam, those who glorify Ferdinand II for the reconquista.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 03:49 PM (GBKbO)

I wish we had a Pope who would resurrect the order of the Knights Templars, for the protection of Christian holy places and Christian populations under siege. Ain't gonna happen under Leo "Little Francis", though. Probably totally unworkable, anyway, what with sovereignty issues and financing, but a Latin Mass Catholic can dream, can't he? I mean, as long as the FBI doesn't hear about it.

Posted by: Paco at November 24, 2025 04:09 PM (mADJX)

156 So much of this crap never made any sense (lke the last sharknado film)

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 24, 2025 04:09 PM (bXbFr)

157 "I guess she's searching for that 2:00am perfect man."

Do I get a call? Nope.

Posted by: gp at November 24, 2025 04:09 PM (4kcNT)

158 We need this feature on Ace of Spades.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 24, 2025 04:09 PM (jbnUc)

159 Reading all of this not having a clue who Tara Reid is.

Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 04:10 PM (PCK5/)

160 146 - I think that was the plot of some Rashomon type rape movie she starred in 25 years ago as well, so she might have gotten the idea from that.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 24, 2025 04:10 PM (Dg7ng)

161 Lol, do you have a link for this? I couldn't find it on Google.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 04:08 PM (BI5O2)


x.com/greg_price11/status/
1993043067486527894

Posted by: banana Dream at November 24, 2025 04:10 PM (3uBP9)

162 I doubt the Asian racists want to be connected to the Europeans either
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Heh. Good point.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 04:10 PM (77rzZ)

163 Tara Reid is 50. She looks at least 20 years older than that. She's a cautionary tale for the young ladies out there.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 24, 2025 04:10 PM (iFTx/)

164 86
Fucking asia.

Asia this. Asia that. West asia. East asia. She's asian. He looks asian.

Asia is, literally, 65% of the World's fucking total Population and land mass, and includes about a hundred countries.

Stop saying fucking asia.
Posted by: Soothsayer

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No yellow!

Posted by: hunted at November 24, 2025 04:11 PM (8VwBr)

165 We need this feature on Ace of Spades.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 24, 2025 04:09 PM (jbnUc)


COB's can use the hash to determine the IP and go from there.

I'm sure no one REALLY cares enough to throw money at Pixy and have code modified to show location with each post.

Plus, there'd be much doxing by libtard coinbots frequenting the place, most likely.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 04:11 PM (Zz0t1)

166 Tara Reid was also in 'American Pie'.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 24, 2025 04:11 PM (xcxpd)

167 Steve Hackett tells a story about GTR that kind of illuminates Steve Howe's relationship with Asia.

They were both in it, to some degree for the money. But Howe was the one who really pushed for a second album, just to cash in on GTR's initial success.
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Stevie Ray Vaughan's guitar tech is highly respected (duh) and has worked for a lot of artists since SRV's passing circa 1989. He did ONE tour for Steve Howe and the moment it ended he quit and said he'd never work for him again. Prince, as an alternative, asked him to set his gear up to mimic SRV's settings, was pleased with the outcome, and never spoke crossly.

Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 04:11 PM (TN0g+)

168 Wait, I thought it was carved in stone that only whites can be racist, cause reasons.

Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 04:11 PM (PCK5/)

169 Teutonic Knights > Knights of St. John > Knights Templar

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 04:11 PM (77rzZ)

170 I have heard it claimed that a lot of the big name influencers wind up being captured by their audience. It is sort of a situation where the audience drives the narrative and the influencer is shaped by the input and likes to drive the narrative even further.
I hope that a number of the big ones on X decide to see who their followers are and where they are posting from.
Musk had mentioned that there was a problem with bots and bot armies, and a few other media deconstructionists noticed that a lot of bots were nuked early on and were replaced, by all reports, by individuals paid to post current narrative from places like Saudi Arabia, who needed some good reports, and correct mass of thought on desired subjects.

We of course know that ace is not influenced in such a way since he gets his opinions as they float by in the gutter, and that is why he is such a good blogger.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 04:12 PM (rbvCR)

171 86
Fucking asia.

Asia this. Asia that. West asia. East asia. She's asian. He looks asian.

Asia is, literally, 65% of the World's fucking total Population and land mass, and includes about a hundred countries.

Stop saying fucking asia.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 03:56 PM (FzTD6)
'He's gone asiatic. Take him back to the boat.'

Posted by: Eromero at November 24, 2025 04:12 PM (LHPAg)

172 Oh, so you're 'Americans overseas,' huh?

Well, great. Why don't you go back to enjoying your life as a rootless cosmopolitan xenophile sucking foreign dick, then? At least a dong in your mouth will quiet ya down.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 04:12 PM (BI5O2)

173 129 I think if muzzie countries spent as much time trying to improve their shithole countries as they do on hating jews they might actually have prosperous, peaceful places to live.


Posted by: Common Sense at November 24, 2025 04:04 PM (1mUlr)

There is a country where even rich high-rises have trash covering the roof, because the culture is so low-trust that they can't even manage something as simple as trash pickup. They all want some other sucker to put his trash out so they can put theirs on it and get away with not paying, so nobody does, so the service doesn't exist.

I don't care about being called a 'racist' or a 'poopyhead' or a 'nazi' or any other meaningless schoolyard taunt, I am against all immigration, including legal. We need a 50-100 year pause, until there are no more Fake Americans, by the very practical test that they 1. know when the World Cup is and 2. visibly or audibly root for another country. Until then, nothing but visitor and diplomatic visas, with burly men in vans waiting to grab them and take them to the airport if they overstay.

Posted by: SciVo at November 24, 2025 04:13 PM (vQLHf)

174 Remember, Siberian Russians are also Asian.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 04:13 PM (77rzZ)

175 They only come up to your knees

Yet they're wise, and they're witty, and they're ready to please

Posted by: banana Dream at November 24, 2025 04:13 PM (3uBP9)

176 I think Tara Reid had a bad tiddie job and now they are beyond repair... or so I've heard on the innertubes.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at November 24, 2025 04:13 PM (Bo9Yf)

177 I don't think I've ever seen Tara Reid in anything but The Big Lebowski. She's always seemed to be dumb as a box of rocks

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 24, 2025 04:13 PM (bfwj/)

178 172 Oh, so you're 'Americans overseas,' huh?

Well, great. Why don't you go back to enjoying your life as a rootless cosmopolitan xenophile sucking foreign dick, then? At least a dong in your mouth will quiet ya down.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 04:12 PM (BI5O2)

Another 'comment of the week' candidate right here

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 24, 2025 04:13 PM (xcxpd)

179 He did ONE tour for Steve Howe and the moment it ended he quit and said he'd never work for him again.

Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 04:11 PM (TN0g+)
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In fairness, it's gotta take its toll going through life talented up the wazoo but that ugly.

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 04:13 PM (krQz2)

180 I think if muzzie countries spent as much time trying to improve their shithole countries as they do on hating jews they might actually have prosperous, peaceful places to live.


Posted by: Common Sense at November 24, 2025 04:04 PM (1mUlr)


islham doesn't allow for such shenanigans.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 04:13 PM (Zz0t1)

181 No one would really need to drug her at this point, but it's a sad state of affairs if they really did. Her expiration date was shortly after she got the worst boob job in human history.

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Close second-runner-up is Tori Spelling.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 24, 2025 04:14 PM (qBdHI)

182 ....but a Latin Mass Catholic can dream, can't he? I mean, as long as the FBI doesn't hear about it.
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I stumbled across a site called Novusordowatch.org a week or two ago. Run by a couple of guys who claim they are Roman Catholic to the grave (a figure of speech I just made up) but assert that Pope Leo....isn't, and label his and the 6 or 7 Pope's that came after Vatican II as anti-Popes. I'm not Catholic, but it's an interesting site.

Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 04:14 PM (TN0g+)

183 >>>Tara Reid is barhopping in Chicago? I guess she's searching for that 2:00am perfect man.

Posted by: wth

>The 2am perfect man is driving a camaro with an 8-ball of cocaine and a prophylactic in his wallet.

Don't be so judgemental.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at November 24, 2025 04:15 PM (WFC1M)

184 Michael Biehn >>> Aftyn Behn

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at November 24, 2025 04:15 PM (OUMaO)

185 165 We need this feature on Ace of Spades.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 24, 2025 04:09 PM (jbnUc)


COB's can use the hash to determine the IP and go from there.

I'm sure no one REALLY cares enough to throw money at Pixy and have code modified to show location with each post.

Plus, there'd be much doxing by libtard coinbots frequenting the place, most likely.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 04:11 PM (Zz0t1)

VPNs make that less than accurate.

Posted by: Pock-E-Stan at November 24, 2025 04:15 PM (vm2Wx)

186 >>Reading all of this not having a clue who Tara Reid is.

Same here. My thought was that she was the chick found not guilty of murdering her cop boyfriend.

Posted by: one hour sober at November 24, 2025 04:15 PM (Y1sOo)

187 If I moved to Italy, would I still comment online about American politics?

Maybe...

But it would be far more remote and less important to me day to day...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 04:15 PM (GBKbO)

188 another issue is the AI training issue. AI suffers from the need to gather language and opinion and fact, and the best ways to get those elements is from social media. Like ace and the cobs being very sensitive to bad language and stormfrunt-adjacent opinion because it gets caught in the algorithms, flooding the online universe with particular ideas and claims is a way of indirectly influencing AI by flooding the AI input with garbage.

GIGO is not just for databases.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 04:15 PM (rbvCR)

189 rootless cosmopolitan
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

You know what "rootless cosmopolitans" was a term for in the Soviet Union, right?

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 04:15 PM (77rzZ)

190 Same here. My thought was that she was the chick found not guilty of murdering her cop boyfriend.

Posted by: one hour sober at November 24, 2025 04:15 PM (Y1sOo)
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I thought she was the aide Biden finger-banged.

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 04:16 PM (krQz2)

191 Knights Who Say "Ni!" > Teutonic Knights > Knights of St. John > Knights Templar

Posted by: wth at November 24, 2025 04:16 PM (v0R5T)

192 Yes pope leo isnt too sharp either

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 24, 2025 04:16 PM (bXbFr)

193 I think Tara Reid had a bad tiddie job and now they are beyond repair... or so I've heard on the innertubes.
Posted by: Truck Monkey at November 24, 2025 04:13 PM (Bo9Yf)


Maybe NSFW, but similar to the Sweeney dress.......


https://is.gd/51Xx3C

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 04:16 PM (Zz0t1)

194 I'm not Catholic, but it's an interesting site.

Posted by: Crusader

Sedevacantists. It's a whole thing, has been since Vatican II (before, honestly).

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at November 24, 2025 04:16 PM (OUMaO)

195 I am not on it enough to know the accounts worth following and everyone I add ends up being way too post happy.

Depending on your definition of post-happy, these meet my postquality/postcount ratio.

@alexthechick
@Dave_in_Fla
@Nefertari_25 (Kara McKinney of OANN)
@SarahAHoyt
@EvaVlaar

I have some regional ones I follow, too.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2025 04:16 PM (olroh)

196 Tara Yazdi >>>>>>> Tara Reid

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 04:16 PM (77rzZ)

197 "My therapist always asks me to transcribe my dreams and the recurring dream I've had is standing up in a Cafeteria full of women and saying 'I don't want children. I want power!'"

Turns out, she not only hates Nashville but all known life in the universe. She's basically a Dalek with boobs. EXTERMINATE
Posted by: banana Dream

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"My mother telling me to never have kids"

Wow.!
I thought this was parody, but it isn't. She imagines a utopian world where women never have any kids.

Posted by: hunted at November 24, 2025 04:16 PM (8VwBr)

198 Check out Stormy Daniels as a then and now comparison.
Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 04:06 PM (PCK5/)

I don't believe that Stormy Daniels ever had anything going for her beyond big tits and a willingness to have a plethora of penii inserted in her on camera.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 24, 2025 04:16 PM (ExV1e)

199 No thats karen reid

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 24, 2025 04:17 PM (bXbFr)

200 Did this foreigner thing happen among Leftist accounts or only among MAGA and America First accounts?

Posted by: blaster at November 24, 2025 04:17 PM (RoO7G)

201 198 Check out Stormy Daniels as a then and now comparison.
Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 04:06 PM (PCK5/)

I don't believe that Stormy Daniels ever had anything going for her beyond big tits and a willingness to have a plethora of penii inserted in her on camera.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 24, 2025 04:16 PM (ExV1e)

As a porn star, that is all that is required for the job

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 24, 2025 04:18 PM (xcxpd)

202 I doubt the Asian racists want to be connected to the Europeans either
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 24, 2025 04:07 PM (bfwj/)

Shit... I'm neither Asian nor racist and I don't want to be connected to the Europeans.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 24, 2025 04:18 PM (ExV1e)

203 Actually, that's not true. There are porn stars with small tits.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 24, 2025 04:18 PM (xcxpd)

204 Michael Biehn >>> Aftyn Behn
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at November 24, 2025 04:15 PM (OUMaO)

***

Mr Bean >>> Orson Bean >>> Michael Biehn >>> Aftyn's Behn

Posted by: Truck Monkey at November 24, 2025 04:18 PM (Bo9Yf)

205 Sedevacantists. It's a whole thing, has been since Vatican II (before, honestly).
Posted by: Brother Tim

I follow a Sedevacantist site called "Novus Ordo Watch." I'm not Catholic, but I learn a lot about Catholic history and theology from the site.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 04:18 PM (77rzZ)

206 I'm not Catholic, but it's an interesting site.

Posted by: Crusader

Sedevacantists. It's a whole thing, has been since Vatican II (before, honestly).
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum
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Yes thank you, I knew so little about the topic before.

Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 04:18 PM (TN0g+)

207 There was someone named Riley Reid wasn’t there? Heard that name somewhere.

Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 04:19 PM (PCK5/)

208 I will come to your country, free the women and slaves.

I will ask the mothers, which ones to shoot.

I do that for sport. Ha ha ho. Weee.

Posted by: thug dolphin at November 24, 2025 04:19 PM (EyfuW)

209
Someone located in the US is going to use a VPN located in Bangladesh or Pakistan? I don't think so.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 24, 2025 04:19 PM (VWtfl)

210
Mr Bean >>> Orson Bean >>> Michael Biehn >>> Aftyn's Behn
Posted by: Truck Monkey at November 24, 2025 04:18 PM (Bo9Yf)


This is how it's supposed to work.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 04:19 PM (Zz0t1)

211 193 I think Tara Reid had a bad tiddie job and now they are beyond repair... or so I've heard on the innertubes.
Posted by: Truck Monkey at November 24, 2025 04:13 PM (Bo9Yf)


Maybe NSFW, but similar to the Sweeney dress.......


https://is.gd/51Xx3C
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 04:16 PM (Zz0t1)

I've done worse

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 24, 2025 04:19 PM (xcxpd)

212 "Steve Hackett tells a story about GTR that kind of illuminates Steve Howe's relationship with Asia.

They were both in it, to some degree for the money. But Howe was the one who really pushed for a second album, just to cash in on GTR's initial success."

I saw Yes and Hackett's solo tour shows within the span of a week at the end of October.

Love both those Steves.

I also saw Eric Johnson the week before that.

Lord, that was my fortnight.


Posted by: Bad Andrew at November 24, 2025 04:19 PM (6qf1m)

213 In Chicago the 2:00am perfect man in a Camaro with an eight ball also has his bro riding shotgun with a Uzi.

Posted by: wth at November 24, 2025 04:19 PM (v0R5T)

214 Wow

Thai woman brought to temple by brother for cremation is found alive in coffin.

Edgar Allen Poe take note.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 04:19 PM (uwNDP)

215 x.com/greg_price11/status/
1993043067486527894

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Well, thanks, I guess.

What a psycho.

But I'm not all that surprised her mom told her she regretted having her.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 04:20 PM (BI5O2)

216 Back in the day, in my heavy raving and partying years, it was fairly common knowledge among that set that Tara Reid was a total junkie and would do anything. There are lotsa stories about her from the Hamptons crowd.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 24, 2025 04:20 PM (iFTx/)

217 She imagines a utopian world where women never have any kids.

Posted by: hunted at November 24, 2025 04:16 PM (8VwBr)
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That's a classic sign of Dem-voter syndrome, right there.

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 04:20 PM (krQz2)

218 I can't find the uncensored Tara vid, so this will have to do:
youtube.com/watch?v=idwtx1XbF2I

Posted by: gp at November 24, 2025 04:20 PM (4kcNT)

219
Have you seen chelsea handler? She's unrecognizable.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 04:20 PM (FzTD6)

220 207 There was someone named Riley Reid wasn’t there? Heard that name somewhere.
Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 04:19 PM (PCK5/)

Jah, fairly successful porn star for a while in the early 2000's

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 24, 2025 04:20 PM (xcxpd)

221 Oh, and I remember as a teenager reading conspiracy theories about their having been a female "Pope" that somehow slid under the radar.

Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 04:20 PM (TN0g+)

222 That Israel Exposed guy claims to be an American living and working in Saudi Arabia.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at November 24, 2025 04:20 PM (GD2xa)

223 Is it true that every time an illegal immigrant posts on "X" it lists his location as Maryland?

Posted by: Orson at November 24, 2025 04:21 PM (dIske)

224 Enjoy the bewbs.

Posted by: wth at November 24, 2025 03:45 PM (v0R5T)

Spoiler Alert: It's AI.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon
......

You have just destroyed the internet's reason for existence.

Posted by: wth at November 24, 2025 03:54 PM (v0R5T)

Just need to psyop women into believing they need to compete with AI boobs, and the boobs will flow.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 04:21 PM (dK+Kv)

225 Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2025 04:16 PM (olroh)


Thanks I will try them. I think I have a couple of them, I guess I have to unfollow some others since they never seem to make it to my feed.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 24, 2025 04:21 PM (8VwBr)

226 Have you seen chelsea handler? She's unrecognizable.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 04:20 PM (FzTD6)


That's because she's broken at the molecular level.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 04:21 PM (Zz0t1)

227 As a porn star, that is all that is required for the job
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Heh, you still have to fake sincerity of orgasms. So real actress.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 24, 2025 04:21 PM (Wg6v7)

228 Oh, and I remember as a teenager reading conspiracy theories about their having been a female "Pope" that somehow slid under the radar.
Posted by: Crusader

Yeah, Pope Joan. That's been pretty roundly debunked.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 04:21 PM (77rzZ)

229 Tara Reade = accuser of Biden
Karen Reed = not guilty
Tara Reid = one hanging low

Posted by: one hour sober at November 24, 2025 04:22 PM (Y1sOo)

230 I'm just back from a cruise to Turkey and Greece. TBH, the Turks come across as far more ambitious and hard-working than the Greeks, who seem to think the world owes them a living.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2025 04:22 PM (Riz8t)

231 Why am I not surprised that a woman named Aftyn has a therapist? Why am I not surprised she's a Democrat?
The people of Tennessee should be running away from that critter

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 24, 2025 04:22 PM (bfwj/)

232 187 If I moved to Italy, would I still comment online about American politics?

Maybe...

But it would be far more remote and less important to me day to day...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 04:15 PM (GBKbO)

It would probably speed up the Lucio Fulci director series too.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 24, 2025 04:22 PM (xcxpd)

233 I'm already tired of Shedeur Sanders.

Posted by: Don Black at November 24, 2025 04:23 PM (AOsQT)

234 That civilization wouldnt last long

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 24, 2025 04:23 PM (bXbFr)

235 232 It would probably speed up the Lucio Fulci director series too.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 24, 2025 04:22 PM (xcxpd)

======

I'm sensing a desire from you...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 04:23 PM (GBKbO)

236 I'm just back from a cruise to Turkey and Greece. TBH, the Turks come across as far more ambitious and hard-working than the Greeks, who seem to think the world owes them a living.
Posted by: Archimedes

Eh, the Turks who used to work on the base in Sinop worked hard, all right...at taking smoke breaks.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 04:23 PM (77rzZ)

237 I saw Yes and Hackett's solo tour shows within the span of a week at the end of October.

Love both those Steves.

I also saw Eric Johnson the week before that.

Lord, that was my fortnight.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at November 24, 2025 04:19 PM (6qf1m)
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Sounds like a guitar feast.

Hackett's my all-time favorite guitarist.

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 04:23 PM (krQz2)

238 GTFO here with your Fuentes represents disaffected American youth FUD.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 03:48 PM (dK+Kv)

The problem with "mass movements" is the feeling of having support on both shoulders. That is the whole point of organizing and having groups on X or Discord.
this has been going on since the Holy Roman Emperors realized the value of the printing press
Doesn't mean it doesn't work.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 04:23 PM (rbvCR)

239 The had a streaming movie a while back where someone got made Pope who had lady bits but was raised male. It was awful.

Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 04:23 PM (PCK5/)

240 Aftyn Behn is one of those Babylon Bee-type joke names.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 04:23 PM (BI5O2)

241 227 As a porn star, that is all that is required for the job
--------------
Heh, you still have to fake sincerity of orgasms. So real actress.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 24, 2025 04:21 PM (Wg6v7)

Well yeah, the good ones can fake it.
Jenna Jameson was astoundingly good at faking it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 24, 2025 04:23 PM (xcxpd)

242 Tara looks a bit worse for wear but 50?
I seen worse

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2025 04:24 PM (+qU29)

243 I'm already tired of Shedeur Sanders.
Posted by: Don Black at November 24, 2025 04:23 PM (AOsQT)


But he won, so he's the greatest and will tell you so. Often.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 04:24 PM (Zz0t1)

244 About frigging time. Trump is designating certain branches of the Muslim Brotherhood as global terrorist organizations.

Now do CAIR.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2025 04:24 PM (viF8m)

245 Jenna Jameson is hard to figure. As in, what’s she up to?

Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 04:24 PM (PCK5/)

246 235 232 It would probably speed up the Lucio Fulci director series too.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 24, 2025 04:22 PM (xcxpd)

======

I'm sensing a desire from you...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 04:23 PM (GBKbO)

I mean, you just did Bava. Fulci and Argento would be logical followups....but maybe lesss fun. Fulchi and his eye goughing...ouch.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 24, 2025 04:25 PM (xcxpd)

247 Influencer has the same root as influenza, and is just as healthy.

Posted by: ... at November 24, 2025 04:25 PM (E0p3T)

248 6 or 7 Pope's that came after Vatican II as anti-Popes. I'm not Catholic, but it's an interesting site.
Posted by: Crusader

-----
I don't know what these past two are, but they are not good for the church or the people.
(I think they both suck dick.)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 24, 2025 04:25 PM (8VwBr)

249 182 I stumbled across a site called Novusordowatch.org a week or two ago. Run by a couple of guys who claim they are Roman Catholic to the grave (a figure of speech I just made up) but assert that Pope Leo....isn't, and label his and the 6 or 7 Pope's that came after Vatican II as anti-Popes. I'm not Catholic, but it's an interesting site. - Crusader

I've found that one has to be careful with some of these conservative Catholic sites. One folded not too long ago because of some undisclosed scandal involving its CEO. The sede-vacantists go a little far, I think; yet, I can see how the movement can appeal to Catholics who are torn between their loyalty to the Church, and their (well-earned) disappointment in its leadership.

Posted by: Paco at November 24, 2025 04:25 PM (mADJX)

250 Tara Reade = accuser of Biden
Karen Reed = not guilty
Tara Reid = one hanging low
Posted by: one hour sober at November 24, 2025 04:22 PM (Y1sOo)
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Ah, so I wasn't so far off (thinking "Tara Reid" was Biden's victim).

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 04:26 PM (krQz2)

251 Afton is the name of a river in Scotland. Maybe the chick's name is just a variant of that.

It's not an inherently unpleasant name.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 04:26 PM (77rzZ)

252 239 The had a streaming movie a while back where someone got made Pope who had lady bits but was raised male. It was awful.

Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 04:23 PM (PCK5/)

=====

Conclave. Real movie with real movie theater release.

I thought it was pretty good. Nonsensical regarding the Church (modern conservative cardinals being dominant in a conclave, don't make me laugh), but a solid thriller.

The Young Pope/The New Pope is probably closer to the truth while still being outrageously unrealistic, but it's way too long in comparison.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 04:26 PM (GBKbO)

253 Those who advocate for a militaristic Christianity in the face of Islam, those who glorify Ferdinand II for the reconquista.

I don't think knocking those who idolize Christian kings who beat back Islam 1,000 years ago is a good thing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 03:49 PM (GBKbO)

I think we should start with the easiest things first: Step one should be "stop sending them US money" and see if that has any noticeable effect.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 04:26 PM (rbvCR)

254 ]i]There was someone named Riley Reid wasn’t there? Heard that name somewhere.
Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 04:19 PM (PCK5/)

Jah, fairly successful porn star for a while in the early 2000's
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 24, 2025 04:20 PM (xcxpd)

Wiki says 2010 through the present so still a porn star. Don't know if she's 'successful' or not.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 24, 2025 04:26 PM (ExV1e)

255 236 I'm just back from a cruise to Turkey and Greece. TBH, the Turks come across as far more ambitious and hard-working than the Greeks, who seem to think the world owes them a living.
Posted by: Archimedes
______________________________

Do you remember a story that came out about 3 years ago about a Greek Isle where 80% of the inhabitants listed themselves as "legally blind" to cash in on the EU welfare?

Posted by: Orson at November 24, 2025 04:26 PM (dIske)

256 246 I mean, you just did Bava. Fulci and Argento would be logical followups....but maybe lesss fun. Fulchi and his eye goughing...ouch.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 24, 2025 04:25 PM (xcxpd)

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A hammer may fall first.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 04:26 PM (GBKbO)

257 Speaking of which I have been knocked on my ass by a virus. This thing literally has it all. I only rarely get anything, this blows. And I think I gave it to Brit Lass.

Posted by: ... at November 24, 2025 04:27 PM (E0p3T)

258 I think Tara Reid had a bad tiddie job and now they are beyond repair... or so I've heard on the innertubes.
Posted by: Truck Monkey

Maybe NSFW, but similar to the Sweeney dress.......

https://is.gd/51Xx3C
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
.....

I don't think they have installed the nipples yet.

Posted by: wth at November 24, 2025 04:27 PM (v0R5T)

259 Well yeah, the good ones can fake it.
Jenna Jameson was astoundingly good at faking it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 24, 2025 04:23 PM (xcxpd)


She was recently baptized and has devoted her life to Jesus Christ.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 04:27 PM (Zz0t1)

260 >>> Just need to psyop women into believing they need to compete with AI boobs, and the boobs will flow.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 04:21 PM (dK+Kv)


He who controls the boobs, controls the universe.

- Frank Herbert

Posted by: banana Dream, purveyor of semi-accurate quotes at November 24, 2025 04:27 PM (3uBP9)

261 There are apparently a lot of "Native American" accounts calling for hatred and violence against the white man for stealing their land. They turn out to be based in... Bangladesh.

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Wait, isn't the Cajun word for Bangladesh "Bayougoula?"

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 24, 2025 04:27 PM (A5ASI)

262 That Israel Exposed guy claims to be an American living and working in Saudi Arabia.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at November 24, 2025 04:20 PM (GD2xa)

Well I'm sure there's a few rumprangers in the House of Saud's opulent closets willing to pay $$$ to crap in a gay dude's mouth, and not everyone volunteering to be a human toilet is a woman.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 04:27 PM (BI5O2)

263 Doesn't mean it doesn't work.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 04:23 PM (rbvCR)

I don't have a problem with the organizing, with the proselytizing whatever warped cause you might have, or even people speculating about it.

The problem with me lies in representing that whatever movement has an outsized cause or effect in order to sway people to your pet cause either from within or without.

Fuentes is a political nothing given outsized influence on the right by those purportedly "within our ranks" for any number of reasons. I declare shenanigans.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 04:27 PM (dK+Kv)

264 A hammer may fall first.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 04:26 PM (GBKbO)

I'll keep watching the skies then

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 24, 2025 04:27 PM (xcxpd)

265 Holy moly Moochelle looks like she is on meth. Or Ozempic. Or both.

Posted by: fd at November 24, 2025 04:27 PM (vFG9F)

266 149 Tara Reid is barhopping in Chicago?

carhopping > barhopping

Posted by: anachronda at November 24, 2025 04:27 PM (edU/H)

267 This is basically all of Reddit

You’d be amazed, how many posters on there have really strong feelings about American politics and then you find out they’ve never even been to the United States

Posted by: Maroon at November 24, 2025 04:28 PM (ym87s)

268 I stumbled across a site called Novusordowatch.org a week or two ago. Run by a couple of guys who claim they are Roman Catholic to the grave (a figure of speech I just made up) but assert that Pope Leo....isn't, and label his and the 6 or 7 Pope's that came after Vatican II as anti-Popes. I'm not Catholic, but it's an interesting site.
Posted by: Crusader

Yes, I visit that site often. I learn a lot there about Catholic history and theology.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 04:28 PM (77rzZ)

269 Where are the countries of West Asia and South Asia?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 24, 2025 04:28 PM (pkeXY)

270 I missed the earlier thread. This caught my eye:

WOLF BLITZER: During WW2, these Nazi officers were following the chain of command, obeying illegal orders and they slaughtered Jews during the Holocaust
——

I don’t know what point he was trying to make. “Following orders” was NOT allowed as a defense at Nuremburg. Probably precisely because they were following legal orders. That’s how it works.

The allies weren’t having any of it, and I understand why. But the high command or generals had a point. Anyway that was something that used to be pressed home in history classes. What the Nazis did was legal, strictly speaking, in their country. They weren’t following “illegal orders”, in fact to refuse or even show skepticism of the regime was cause for arrest. That’s how totalitarian, collectivist socialist governments work. The Soviets were exactly the same, if not worse.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 24, 2025 04:29 PM (F3yTM)

271 259 Well yeah, the good ones can fake it.
Jenna Jameson was astoundingly good at faking it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 24, 2025 04:23 PM (xcxpd)


She was recently baptized and has devoted her life to Jesus Christ.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 04:27 PM (Zz0t1)

I hope so. Christ has been the salvation, in many senses, for a lot of porn stars.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 24, 2025 04:29 PM (xcxpd)

272 Do you remember a story that came out about 3 years ago about a Greek Isle where 80% of the inhabitants listed themselves as "legally blind" to cash in on the EU welfare?
Posted by: Orson

Minnesota Somalis have entered the chat.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 04:29 PM (77rzZ)

273 Where are the countries of West Asia and South Asia?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 24, 2025 04:28 PM (pkeXY)


In West and South Asia.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 04:29 PM (Zz0t1)

274 Do you remember a story that came out about 3 years ago about a Greek Isle where 80% of the inhabitants listed themselves as "legally blind" to cash in on the EU welfare?

I missed that.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2025 04:29 PM (Riz8t)

275 I was reflexively disinclined to believe it was all foreign accounts promoting racism and anti-Semitism under the guise of the pro-Trump America First banner. That sounded too easy, and similar to the (now debunked) idea that all the Trump content on Facebook in 2016 was actually Russian bots.

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It's GloboHomo Deep State PsyOps all the way down ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 24, 2025 04:30 PM (A5ASI)

276
I hope so. Christ has been the salvation, in many senses, for a lot of porn stars.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 24, 2025 04:29 PM (xcxpd)


I read Traci Lords book. My oh my did she need to find something other than what she'd found as a yute.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 04:30 PM (Zz0t1)

277 I was reflexively disinclined to believe it was all foreign accounts promoting racism and anti-Semitism under the guise of the pro-Trump America First banner. That sounded too easy, and similar to the (now debunked) idea that all the Trump content on Facebook in 2016 was actually Russian bots.

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It's GloboHomo Deep State PsyOps all the way down ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 24, 2025 04:30 PM (A5ASI)

Fuentes is pro-Trump, America First the same way the Unite the Right, Charlottesville psyop was.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 04:31 PM (dK+Kv)

278
Fuentes is pro-Trump, America First the same way the Unite the Right, Charlottesville psyop was.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 04:31 PM (dK+Kv)


Fuentes was begging people to vote Harris......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 04:31 PM (Zz0t1)

279 I read Traci Lords book. My oh my did she need to find something other than what she'd found as a yute.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 04:30 PM (Zz0t1)

I don't even want to imagine the horrors.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 04:32 PM (dK+Kv)

280 Tara Reid is a 2:00am, tavern, closing-time 4.

Last call!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at November 24, 2025 04:32 PM (WFC1M)

281 I still prefer Aja to Asia.
Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 03:57 PM (TN0g+)

That's a deep cut.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 04:32 PM (zZu0s)

282 Forgive me Father for I have sinned, and sinned, and sinned, and sinned...

Ahem. Could you please be a little more specific?

Posted by: Jenna Jameson confessional at November 24, 2025 04:32 PM (v0R5T)

283 277 Fuentes is pro-Trump, America First the same way the Unite the Right, Charlottesville psyop was.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 04:31 PM (dK+Kv)

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"I'm going to Michigan to ensure Harris wins."
-Fuentes, September 2024

"We must unite with Nick Fuentes!"
-people online, November 2025, for some reason

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 04:32 PM (GBKbO)

284 Fuentes is pro-Trump, America First the same way the Unite the Right, Charlottesville psyop was.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 04:31 PM (dK+Kv)

Literally true, I believe

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 24, 2025 04:32 PM (xcxpd)

285 I'm guessing that, in the specific instance of whipping up division over the weather controllers, the checks are coming from Foggy Bottom. They have the longstanding hatred of Israel, and I'm sure they are furious at Trump for wiping away all Blinken's machinations and generally humiliating the State Department in the Middle East this year.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 03:57 PM (BI5O2)

the war-whores of both sides NEED conflicts that can be spun up at a moment's notice to keep the level of conflict in the world going. They all hate Trump for stubbing out all the disputes, and if they can't stop him, they will make sure their candidate will win the next primary, one that will be acceptable to the foggy bottoms and the lindsay Grahams of the political elite.
They will call it "keeping MAGA pure" or some such crap.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 04:33 PM (rbvCR)

286 "I'm going to Michigan to ensure Harris wins."
-Fuentes, September 2024

"We must unite with Nick Fuentes!"
-people online, November 2025, for some reason

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 04:32 PM (GBKbO)

Yeah, it's nuculer grade retardism.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 04:33 PM (dK+Kv)

287 The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee ·

Chicago Kicks Off Holiday Season By Unveiling Festive Red And Green Crime-Scene Tape https://buff.ly/YW10CbE

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 04:33 PM (krQz2)

288
I don't even want to imagine the horrors.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 04:32 PM (dK+Kv)


It was quite the read......Then you learn she only made ONE movie that was legal. And she was in over 30......yeah. Her mom moving the family to California was a REALLY bad idea.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 04:33 PM (Zz0t1)

289 Literally true, I believe

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 24, 2025 04:32 PM (xcxpd)

heh

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 04:33 PM (dK+Kv)

290 How do the Catholics here feel about Vatican II?

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 04:33 PM (77rzZ)

291 This Israeli comic's impersonation of Tucker is brilliant.

https://tinyurl.com/2zm457sf

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 24, 2025 04:34 PM (WHfpM)

292 Fuentes is as every bit as pro America and pro Right as National Review.

Posted by: ... at November 24, 2025 04:34 PM (E0p3T)

293 I still prefer Aja to Asia.
Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 03:57 PM (TN0g+)

That's a deep cut.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 04:32 PM (zZu0s)
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First cut is the deepest.

Posted by: Rod Stewart at November 24, 2025 04:34 PM (krQz2)

294 We cannot talk about or fix any of our problems with a mob of foreigners constantly barging into the conversation.

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Should apply as well to a mob of America-hating Domestic Terrorists.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 24, 2025 04:35 PM (A5ASI)

295 Fuentes is as every bit as pro America and pro Right as National Review.
Posted by: ...

Today is William F. Buckleys' 100th birthday.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 04:35 PM (77rzZ)

296 They are trying to split the right and destroy MAGA so the Left can get back in power. The Left realized they had no way to make themselves stronger so it was about weakening the opponent.

Posted by: ... at November 24, 2025 04:36 PM (E0p3T)

297 "How do the Catholics here feel about Vatican II?"

Simply put, I ignore it. Not so much proactively, but if there is something about it I need to know, that something has not been presented to me.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at November 24, 2025 04:38 PM (6qf1m)

298 They are trying to split the right and destroy MAGA so the Left can get back in power. The Left realized they had no way to make themselves stronger so it was about weakening the opponent.

Posted by: ... at November 24, 2025 04:36 PM (E0p3T)

And the right is going after every squirrel thrown out there. It's frustrating.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 04:38 PM (dK+Kv)

299 Posted by: SciVo at November 24, 2025 04:13 PM (vQLHf)

Cut, jib, newsletter.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at November 24, 2025 04:38 PM (Vvh2V)

300 They are trying to split the right and destroy MAGA so the Left can get back in power. The Left realized they had no way to make themselves stronger so it was about weakening the opponent.
Posted by: ... at November 24, 2025 04:36 PM (E0p3T)


DING DING DING!

Get this man a CEEgar......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 04:38 PM (Zz0t1)

301 So the Ambassador Huckabee and convicted traitor Jonathan Pollard lovefest was not a slap in the face to American citizens but just anti-Semitic Qatari AI slop?
Posted by: TITP at November 24, 2025 04:08 PM (r3hkP)

Huckabee forgot that the main duty of an ambassador is to publicly beat people with a tire iron, not be polite to people under the protection of the country he is stationed in.

IT IS IN THE MANUAL, RIGHT AFTER "MAKE SURE OF THE CUCUMBER AND WATERCRESS SANDWICHES"
How could be be so stupid to forget that.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 04:39 PM (rbvCR)

302 I was just listening to Matt Walsh talking about this very thing. Who'da thunkit?

Posted by: Eeyore at November 24, 2025 04:39 PM (s0JqF)

303 Yeah, it's nuculer grade retardism.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 04:33 PM

If you'd spelled it nucular, I'd have awarded full marks.

8.5/10

Posted by: George W. Bush at November 24, 2025 04:39 PM (0sNs1)

304 298 And the right is going after every squirrel thrown out there. It's frustrating.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 04:38 PM (dK+Kv)

======

Be wary of anyone talking about the "affordability crisis" who doesn't also mention that rents have declined by about 16% in major markets this year...almost entirely because roughly 3 million people have left the US.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 04:39 PM (GBKbO)

305 where are all their pictures of starving Gazans?

Posted by: Random PJ at November 24, 2025 04:39 PM (RRCAT)

306 A hammer may fall first.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 04:26 PM (GBKbO)

I'll keep watching the skies then
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I've urged my friend Kelly to do the same...

Posted by: Air at November 24, 2025 04:40 PM (TN0g+)

307 First cut is the deepest.
Posted by: Rod Stewart at November 24, 2025 04:34 PM

Not in our line of work.

Posted by: Mohels at November 24, 2025 04:40 PM (0sNs1)

308 And it turns out that some of the most "pro-American" American First or America Only accounts are located in the patriotic states of Turkey, India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

.. so what are the other three states (out of 57) ?

Posted by: SMOD, I grew up in a middle-class constellation at November 24, 2025 04:40 PM (RHGPo)

309 Holy moly Moochelle looks like she is on meth. Or Ozempic. Or both.
Posted by: fd at November 24, 2025 04:27 PM (vFG9F)

He will end up looking like that freakazoid cheerqueer from the Carolina Panthers.

Posted by: Pray The Gay Away at November 24, 2025 04:40 PM (1mUlr)

310 [io]where are all their pictures of starving Gazans?
Posted by: Random PJ at November 24, 2025 04:39 PM (RRCAT)


They're currently feasting on the bodies of all the dead babies lining the streets. They'll be full and ready for their photo ops in a day or two.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 04:41 PM (Zz0t1)

311 304 - John Nolte (a rival film critic to you) went that route, and he writes for Breitbart, ostensibly a right-wing publication, but there he was demanding the Trump Admin drop everything and focus on "AFFORDIBILITY" like a RINO.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 24, 2025 04:42 PM (Dg7ng)

312 A hammer may fall first.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 04:26 PM (GBKbO)



You really are an asshole.....

Posted by: Paul Pelosi at November 24, 2025 04:42 PM (Zz0t1)

313 311 304 - John Nolte (a rival film critic to you) went that route, and he writes for Breitbart, ostensibly a right-wing publication, but there he was demanding the Trump Admin drop everything and focus on "AFFORDIBILITY" like a RINO.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 24, 2025 04:42 PM (Dg7ng)

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1. I'm not a critic. I'm just an asshole on the internet.

2. Deportation is going to fix...a lot in America. Not everything, but a shocking amount.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 04:43 PM (GBKbO)

314 Be wary of anyone talking about the "affordability crisis" who doesn't also mention that rents have declined by about 16% in major markets this year...almost entirely because roughly 3 million people have left the US.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 04:39 PM (GBKbO)

It's still being pushed hard on tiktok by, presumably, actual Americans. Unknown whether they have an axe to grind or they're just not picking up what Trump is putting down.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 24, 2025 04:44 PM (ExV1e)

315 Everything is fake and ghey.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 24, 2025 04:44 PM (jc0TO)

316 Today is William F. Buckleys' 100th birthday.
Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 04:35 PM (77rzZ)
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He's been voting Democrat for nearly 17 years.

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 04:44 PM (krQz2)

317 Be wary of anyone talking about the "affordability crisis" who doesn't also mention that rents have declined by about 16% in major markets this year...almost entirely because roughly 3 million people have left the US.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 04:39 PM (GBKbO)

Let's also get this right...from just today..."Median monthly rent on units with up to two bedrooms fell 1.7% year-over-year in October to $1,696, according to Realtor.com. They’re now down about 3.6% from their 2022 peak."

So, 15% is not on point. I mean you can cherry pick Sarasota, FL with rents down 40% year over year (probably b/c of the illegal departures), but for every huge drop, there's somewhere like Fairfax, where there is no drop and no rise...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 24, 2025 04:44 PM (tOcjL)

318 314 It's still being pushed hard on tiktok by, presumably, actual Americans. Unknown whether they have an axe to grind or they're just not picking up what Trump is putting down.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 24, 2025 04:44 PM (ExV1e)

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People calling for outright deflation while not understanding it while also conflating small beef herds for inflation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 04:44 PM (GBKbO)

319 2. Deportation is going to fix...a lot in America. Not everything, but a shocking amount.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 04:43 PM

Including the ending of Prometheus?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 24, 2025 04:44 PM (0sNs1)

320 200 Did this foreigner thing happen among Leftist accounts or only among MAGA and America First accounts?
Posted by: blaster at November 24, 2025 04:17 PM (RoO7G)

Yes. The engagement farming is indiscriminate, even (allegedly) including a kayfabe within a single soccer team, since a few dollars go a long way in the Third World.

Posted by: SciVo at November 24, 2025 04:44 PM (vQLHf)

321 Trump should be focusing on the economy (and he is). He ran on fixing Biden's mess, it's a high priority, and it will continue being employed as a bludgeon against him by the Dems until it gets better.

I'm pretty sure he's aware of the problem.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 04:45 PM (BI5O2)

322 Deportation is going to fix...a lot in America. Not everything, but a shocking amount.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 04:43 PM (GBKbO)

The problem is that it won't fix it fast enough for the "I wanted it last year" set. Still, it's the correct move.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 24, 2025 04:45 PM (ExV1e)

323 317 Well as I've heard multiple people explain over the years, Fairfax County is full of demons, and they aren't being deported, so it's unsurprising that rents haven't changed there.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 24, 2025 04:47 PM (Dg7ng)

324 Trump should be focusing on the economy (and he is). He ran on fixing Biden's mess, it's a high priority, and it will continue being employed as a bludgeon against him by the Dems until it gets better.

I'm pretty sure he's aware of the problem.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 04:45 PM (BI5O2)


Too bad he's a stupid poopy head and doesn't have a clue what he's doing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 04:47 PM (Zz0t1)

325 The problem is that it won't fix it fast enough for the "I wanted it last year" set. Still, it's the correct move.

It does sometimes seem like it’s been forever since Trump took office, because of all that’s gone on since then.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2025 04:47 PM (olroh)

326 319 2. Deportation is going to fix...a lot in America. Not everything, but a shocking amount.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 04:43 PM

Including the ending of Prometheus?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 24, 2025 04:44 PM (0sNs1)

Oh, you gotta fix way more than just the ending...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 24, 2025 04:48 PM (xcxpd)

327 The thing that has gotten the most porn stars away from porn is OD'ing

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 24, 2025 04:48 PM (bfwj/)

328 It does sometimes seem like it’s been forever since Trump took office, because of all that’s gone on since then.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2025 04:47 PM (olroh)

Imagine how much more would have been accomplished at this point if not for the judiciary.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 24, 2025 04:48 PM (ExV1e)

329 Imagine how much more would have been accomplished at this point if not for the judiciary.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 24, 2025 04:48 PM (ExV1e)


And RINO's.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 04:49 PM (Zz0t1)

330 ace May can be sort of cool. Depends how far you are from the water. "May gray" happens some years - marine layer doesn't really burn off. 80 near the beach in May is not common. But obviously your point stands. Gaza has nice weather, and is along the water, decent beaches.

So of course the Paleostinians have capitalized on that to create a profitable vacation destination.

Or not.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 24, 2025 04:49 PM (U/Byj)

331 BabylonBee: Chicago Kicks Off Holiday Season By Unveiling Festive Red And Green Crime-Scene Tape

Posted by: SMOD, I grew up in a middle-class constellation at November 24, 2025 04:49 PM (RHGPo)

332 https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=417427

New thread

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 24, 2025 04:49 PM (Dg7ng)

333 Sorry to ask this again, Folks, but can someone please give me the e-mail for prayer requests?

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 04:50 PM (77rzZ)

334 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 04:50 PM (Zz0t1)

335 315 Everything is fake and ghey.

Except the hottie in the Eastern Shore Hyundai commercial

Posted by: one hour sober at November 24, 2025 04:50 PM (Y1sOo)

336 Nood. SCOTUS doesn't fuck Texas - yet - for a change.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 24, 2025 04:50 PM (ExV1e)

337 Insty:
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GREAT MOMENTS IN LAW ENFORCEMENT: Somali Sheriff in Minnesota Just Called American Officers ‘Foreigners’ and Said He Serves Somalis First.

A Minnesota Sheriff gave a speech (not in English) making it very clear who he believes he is obligated to protect.

"Minnesota Sheriff says he’s a police officer for Somalians first in the U.S. and abroad"
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That's like when Omar called the President of Somalia "Our president". Omar's family came here because they were losers in the power struggle, not to be "American".

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 04:51 PM (krQz2)

338 Imagine how much more would have been accomplished at this point if not for the judiciary.

Or if congress did their part, too…

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2025 04:51 PM (olroh)

339 Too bad he's a stupid poopy head and doesn't have a clue what he's doing.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 04:47 PM

We knew there was a reason we found you somewhat more tolerable compared to the rest of the mouth-breathing deplorable troglodytes who infest this place.

Posted by: Denizens of Democratic Underground at November 24, 2025 04:51 PM (0sNs1)

340 Oh that's cool, you found a bunch of Middle Easterners with three followers pretending to be Americans. That would be a big deal if it meant a damned thing.

Come back to me when you have proof positive Candace Owens is a shape-shifting lizard. Not that I have entirely discounted the possibility...

Posted by: Exiled2Texas at November 24, 2025 04:53 PM (YINx+)

341 People calling for outright deflation while not understanding it while also conflating small beef herds for inflation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 04:44 PM (GBKbO)

It is also the problem of them calling for deflation while also calling for immediate cut in rates by the Fed.
Most people don't understand what causes inflation you see.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 04:55 PM (rbvCR)

342 Imagine how much more would have been accomplished at this point if not for the judiciary.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 24, 2025 04:48 PM (ExV1e

If the punks on the benches had been limited to the Constitutional authorities they were actually given in the first place, Americans would probably be trying to figure out how to get more immigrants to volunteer for lucrative but dangerous jobs working in our numerous space-colonies by now.

The Article III branch has been a drag on this country since the jump.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 04:56 PM (BI5O2)

343 “America First” is pretty anti-Semitic

Posted by: Coach Howard Schnebrllenegr at November 24, 2025 04:59 PM (PyQub)

344
Boy, oh boy!

MAJOR breach of our digital wall by the Italicans.

They could be inside the citadel by vespers at this rate!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at November 24, 2025 05:20 PM (xG4kz)

345 89 80 Bonchie here calls it a "glitch" but I think that's incorrect; X added the feature to increase transparency and so people could gauge the "authenticity" of an account.

==

It absolutely is not. I saw the exchange between X top engineer and a very popular conservative blogger, who asked for it to be added. because the discourse in the US is being manipulated to the nth degree by bad actors from every terrorist shithole on the planet. so he said "give me a few days".

Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 03:55 PM (g47mK)

=====

The glitch was that it was released early for about an hour late night one night this weekend. Then they rolled it out as a permanent feature the next day.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 03:57 PM (GBKbO)

yep


Bonchie
@bonchieredstate
Nov 22
I’m seeing some people say this guy is in Gaza because it says Gaza.

For those confused, where it says “Gaza” below is not someone’s location. You can put the moon or Wakanda there if you want.

Last night’s glitch exposed this dude’s actual location is Poland

Posted by: m at November 24, 2025 05:41 PM (RuTUS)

346 from the linked RedState article:

A temporary glitch on X led to a credibility bloodbath for a variety of foreign propaganda accounts that were either posing as Americans or lying about their locations in other ways.

Head of Product Nikita Brier had announced a new feature revealing the origin and current location of users. When it rolled out, though, only account owners could view it. That all changed on Friday night, though. In what is assumed to have been a mistake, everyone's origins and current locations were made public for about an hour before disappearing.

Posted by: m at November 24, 2025 05:44 PM (RuTUS)

347 *Bier

Posted by: m at November 24, 2025 05:44 PM (RuTUS)

348 That's not "freezing." That's May in San Diego.

And for many of the days, June, July, August & September.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2025 06:27 PM (ynpvh)

349 At least this year.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2025 06:27 PM (ynpvh)

350 Doesn't the advent of VPN's make getting the IP location accurate, difficult?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 03:42 PM

I've seen it asserted that X has taken this into account.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 03:44 PM

I saw that asserted as well... in the content of ace's post:

X appears to have factored in the VPN point. On Monday morning, Business Insider tested the "About This Account" feature from a device using a VPN and found a notice that warns the "country or region may not be accurate" due to the use of a proxy.

The location function also comes with an accuracy disclaimer, which states: "The country or region that an account is based can be impacted by recent travel or temporary relocation. This data may not be accurate and can change periodically."

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 24, 2025 07:26 PM (P5BPp)

351 Let's try that again...

Doesn't the advent of VPN's make getting the IP location accurate, difficult?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 03:42 PM

I've seen it asserted that X has taken this into account.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 03:44 PM

I saw that asserted as well... in the content of ace's post:

X appears to have factored in the VPN point. On Monday morning, Business Insider tested the "About This Account" feature from a device using a VPN and found a notice that warns the "country or region may not be accurate" due to the use of a proxy.

The location function also comes with an accuracy disclaimer, which states: "The country or region that an account is based can be impacted by recent travel or temporary relocation. This data may not be accurate and can change periodically."

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 24, 2025 07:27 PM (P5BPp)

352 Are there actually retards out there that think it's freezing in the fucking middle east? I guess any weather can get freaky, but Gaza is located in a hot environment. Only a few months ago, they were boo-hooing about a heat wave there.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 24, 2025 03:45 PM

Well, to be fair, a few months ago, it was August, one of the hottest months for Michigan. And we had 90s+ here. But here lately, we've had highs in the 30s. So it is technically possible to be complaining about 90s+ a few months ago to complaining about freezing now.

Though not sure how possible that is in the Middle East compared to the Midwest in the USA.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 24, 2025 07:33 PM (P5BPp)

353 Fucking asia.

Asia this. Asia that. West asia. East asia. She's asian. He looks asian.

Asia is, literally, 65% of the World's fucking total Population and land mass, and includes about a hundred countries.

Stop saying fucking asia.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 03:56 PM

I have noticed the media -- especially European media -- likes to refer to Asia and Asians when they are trying to hide the fact that Muslims or other people from Middle Eastern countries are committing crimes/terrorism.

Because I think -- though I could be wrong -- that most people when they see "Asian", they think Chinese, Japanese or Korean. They don't think Muslim.

Same way the American media and local law enforcement hide Hispanic or Mexican crime rates by classifying as "White Hispanic" or even just changing Hispanic to White.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 24, 2025 08:05 PM (P5BPp)

354 She WAS cute as a button. Now, she looks......... Asian.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 04:05 PM

No yellow.

Posted by: Hunter at November 24, 2025 04:08 PM

Why not?

Posted by: Coldplay at November 24, 2025 08:09 PM (P5BPp)

355 Depending on your definition of post-happy, these meet my postquality/postcount ratio.

@alexthechick
@Dave_in_Fla
@Nefertari_25 (Kara McKinney of OANN)
@SarahAHoyt
@EvaVlaar

I have some regional ones I follow, too.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 24, 2025 04:16 PM

My AceOfSpadesHQ list on X:

https://bit.ly/4p14sOs

People who either blog or comment here or people/organizations which have been shared in posts here.

I also have one for "Celebrities" which includes anyone from Libs of TikTok to Steve Inman to Wholesome Side of X to Riley Gaines to DataRepublican and MomofDataRepublican to The Critical Drinker to James Woods, etc.

https://bit.ly/3KecYKK

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 24, 2025 08:24 PM (P5BPp)

Department of War Mulls Court-Martialing Senator and Inactive-Duty Officer Mark Kelly for Urging Troops to Defy the Duly-Elected Commander in Chief

Officers in the US Armed Forces are under a special obligation to respect the chain of command.

Aren't they?

The Department of War is reportedly considering recalling Kelly to active duty, just to face an court martial for insubordination (and, I guess, insurrection).


Department of War
@DeptofWar

OFFICIAL STATEMENT:

The Department of War has received serious allegations of misconduct against Captain Mark Kelly, USN (Ret.). In accordance with the Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. sec. 688, and other applicable regulations, a thorough review of these allegations has been initiated to determine further actions, which may include recall to active duty for court-martial proceedings or administrative measures. This matter will be handled in compliance with military law, ensuring due process and impartiality. Further official comments will be limited, to preserve the integrity of the proceedings.

The Department of War reminds all individuals that military retirees remain subject to the UCMJ for applicable offenses, and federal laws such as 18 U.S.C. § 2387 prohibit actions intended to interfere with the loyalty, morale, or good order and discipline of the armed forces. Any violations will be addressed through appropriate legal channels.

All servicemembers are reminded that they have a legal obligation under the UCMJ to obey lawful orders and that orders are presumed to be lawful. A servicemember's personal philosophy does not justify or excuse the disobedience of an otherwise lawful order.

Pete Hegseth put an exclamation point on the DOW's statement:

Pete Hegseth
@PeteHegseth

1h

The video made by the "Seditious Six" was despicable, reckless, and false. Encouraging our warriors to ignore the orders of their Commanders undermines every aspect of "good order and discipline." Their foolish screed sows doubt and confusion -- which only puts our warriors in danger.

Five of the six individuals in that video do not fall under @DeptofWar
jurisdiction (one is CIA and four are former military but not "retired", so they are no longer subject to UCMJ). However, Mark Kelly (retired Navy Commander) is still subject to UCMJ--and he knows that.

As was announced, the Department is reviewing his statements and actions, which were addressed directly to all troops while explicitly using his rank and service affiliation--lending the appearance of authority to his words. Kelly's conduct brings discredit upon the armed forces and will be addressed appropriately.


RedState's Rusty Weiss notes that the military does permit (or oblige) troops to refuse a "manifestly" illegal order -- but also tells them they're supposed to treat all orders as presumably legal and obey them.

Mark Kelly and the other seditionists told troops to substitute their own opinion for the duly-elected Commander-in-Chief's.

The problem is that there is a vast difference between manifestly illegal orders and those whose illegality is debatable. The latter of which, refusing to obey an order one feels personally questionable, is itself illegal, under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).

In other words, service members can't simply say they feel immigration enforcement, for example, is unlawful and walk away, which is precisely what these Democrat lawmakers were trying to incite.

Posted by: Ace at 02:30 PM




Comments

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1 Will nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 24, 2025 02:30 PM (NcvvS)

2 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: blaster at November 24, 2025 02:32 PM (RoO7G)

3 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 02:33 PM (Zz0t1)

4 Nooded, though CaliGirl did so first.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 24, 2025 02:33 PM (NcvvS)

5 Kelly belongs on some program about aliens. I hope he is taken to task by the military. He's creepy and he got elected simply because his wife was shot.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 24, 2025 02:33 PM (afKoR)

6 This is about Crow, but it reads the same:

Green Beret Nap Time
@GBNT1952
16h
Since they seem intent upon continuously using doctrinal propaganda on the US populace, I think it’s important to highlight exactly what Crow and other Members of Congress are really doing.

Rep. Jason Crow’s post is a doctrinal example of narrative escalation within modern IO and psychological warfare doctrine.

Check out FM 3-05.301 / MISO.

By claiming that the President is threatening him with arrest and execution—a statement never actually made by Trump—Crow amplifies and inflates the narrative to its most extreme form in order to shape public perception.

This tactic, often called interpretive maximalism, takes an opponent’s words or actions and stretches them into a dire or existential threat, allowing the speaker to adopt a position of moral heroism while casting the opponent as an authoritarian danger.

When Crow doubles down on this framing, he creates what IO doctrine refers to as a self sealing narrative, where any denial or criticism becomes proof of the alleged threat.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 02:33 PM (rbvCR)

7 The emotionally loaded language like “upholding my oath,” “standing with our troops,” “disregard for the rule of law,” are designed to trigger identity based responses and mobilize his political base through fear, outrage, and moral urgency.

In doing all of this, Crow shifts the conversation away from what was actually said and into a battle over perceived intent, a classic PSYOP mechanism that reframes political disagreement as existential warfare.

This is not an evidentiary argument—it is a strategic influence play aimed at narrative dominance.

It is important that Americans recognize these tactics so that they can understand when propaganda is being pushed by their own government officials.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 02:33 PM (rbvCR)

8 Is this Gabby’s husband, or his twin?

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 02:33 PM (77rzZ)

9 >>>Five of the six individuals in that video do not fall under @DeptofWar jurisdiction (one is CIA and four are former military but not "retired", so they are no longer subject to UCMJ). However, Mark Kelly (retired Navy Commander) is still subject to UCMJ--and he knows that.

lolgf, you stupid commie.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 02:33 PM (dK+Kv)

10 I watched their vid. Nothing they said in it, AFAIK, was seditious, although one could say the implication of the statement was that Trump is giving illegal, unconstitutional orders...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2025 02:33 PM (ynpvh)

11 The Democrats are predictably losing their shit over this. It's kinda fun.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 24, 2025 02:33 PM (2ocoG)

12 There's something wrong with that man's eyes.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at November 24, 2025 02:33 PM (kTd/k)

13 Mark Kelly looks like someone stuck elephant ears on an old man's dick

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 24, 2025 02:33 PM (iFTx/)

14 "This is partisan attacks! Trump is dictator using the government to do his bidding!!!"


In before the left has their standard shitfit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 02:34 PM (Zz0t1)

15 Color revolution, there is a manual and specific steps to take to create one.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 02:34 PM (rbvCR)

16 *yawn*

Posted by: Guy who always says "Nothing will happen" and is usually right at November 24, 2025 02:34 PM (vFG9F)

17 5 Kelly belongs on some program about aliens. I hope he is taken to task by the military. He's creepy and he got elected simply because his wife was shot.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Elections in Arizona are like those in other cheat by mail states. Not a valid indication that the Democrat actually won.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 02:34 PM (WDjG6)

18 If the administration can take action against Kelly soon they might get a chance to hold him accountable about 10 years from now.

After all the appeals, TRO's and a trip to SCOTUS have been exhausted.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 24, 2025 02:34 PM (NwnyJ)

19 Sounds right to me
But some Leftist fking judge will declare its his 1st Amendment freedom

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2025 02:35 PM (+qU29)

20 Bug-eyed, freaky looking chap.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 24, 2025 02:35 PM (wVcYX)

21 Rep. Jason Crow’s post is a doctrinal example of narrative escalation within modern IO and psychological warfare doctrine.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 02:33 PM (rbvCR)

IO stands for what in this context? Information Operations?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 02:35 PM (dK+Kv)

22 17 5 Kelly belongs on some program about aliens. I hope he is taken to task by the military. He's creepy and he got elected simply because his wife was shot.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Elections in Arizona are like those in other cheat by mail states. Not a valid indication that the Democrat actually won.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 02:34 PM (WDjG6)

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.

Posted by: Zombie Josef Stalin at November 24, 2025 02:36 PM (ynpvh)

23 8 Is this Gabby’s husband, or his twin?

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025
.02:33 PM (77rzZ)


One of these is too much..

Posted by: It's me donna at November 24, 2025 02:36 PM (VE6XX)

24 All of the Seditious Six have gone out and said "oh we aren't saying that Trump has issued any unlawful orders so we did not mean him."

But the Leftist's ARE saying that.

Posted by: blaster at November 24, 2025 02:36 PM (RoO7G)

25 Nothing they said in it, AFAIK, was seditious, although one could say the implication of the statement was that Trump is giving illegal, unconstitutional orders...

It's obviously carefully stated to give that effect, and comment 6 backs that up.

There was great hilarity on Friday when the White House put out a statement that they were not going to just start shooting Congressmen. Even some liberals were asking "why not?".

Posted by: Ian S. at November 24, 2025 02:36 PM (2ocoG)

26 14 "This is partisan attacks! Trump is dictator using the government to do his bidding!!!"


In before the left has their standard shitfit.
Posted by: Sponge
=====
I think in part, the big money and oligarchs behind this shit are wanting anarcho tyranny so that they CAN put a dictator in the seat. They get hot and bothered over people like Xi and the Chicoms because they envisage themselves as the Politburo types.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 02:36 PM (WDjG6)

27 That photo of Kelly, he looks like chunk from The Goonies less retarded brother.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 24, 2025 02:36 PM (vZUXb)

28 So the deep state which is illegal, cannot be de armed.

Posted by: thug dolphin at November 24, 2025 02:37 PM (EyfuW)

29 Mark Kelly looks like someone stuck elephant ears on an old man's dick
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 24, 2025 02:33 PM (iFTx/)

Forget about the elephant ears -- how are you so knowledgeable about old man dicks?

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2025 02:37 PM (Ltmlv)

30 The should ask the seditious six if they believe Trump has given any unconstitutional orders and which ones those were...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2025 02:37 PM (ynpvh)

31 >Department of War Mulls Court-Martialing Senator and Inactive-Duty Officer Mark Kelly for Urging Troops to Defy the Duly-Elected Commander in Chief
----

do I have to say it
somebody else say it

Posted by: Don Black at November 24, 2025 02:37 PM (AOsQT)

32 I remember watching the video and they said disobey "illegal orders", not just "orders."

What legal impact does that have?

Probably renders it not a crime.

Posted by: EFG at November 24, 2025 02:37 PM (vuQMF)

33 Kelly looks like Gollum's uncle.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 24, 2025 02:37 PM (NcvvS)

34 We will definitely have to figure out a way to dismiss these charges.

Posted by: Democrat JAG judge at November 24, 2025 02:37 PM (jYRYu)

35 29 Mark Kelly looks like someone stuck elephant ears on an old man's dick
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 24, 2025 02:33 PM (iFTx/)

Forget about the elephant ears -- how are you so knowledgeable about old man dicks?

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2025 02:37 PM (Ltmlv)

When you're a man and you're old...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2025 02:37 PM (ynpvh)

36 Kelly is a flake and a disgrace to the astronaut corps.

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at November 24, 2025 02:37 PM (PBG/z)

37 Is this Gabby’s husband, or his twin?
Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 02:33 PM (77rzZ)


Gabby's husband. The twin was an astronaut.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 02:37 PM (Zz0t1)

38 Kelly belongs on some program about aliens.

Close Encounters of the Dorkus kind.

Mark Kelly looks like someone stuck elephant ears on an old man's dick

Poetry.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2025 02:37 PM (Riz8t)

39 Of course an issue that hinges on what "legal" means is going to turn into a ridiculous fiasco.

Half of this country thinks "legal" means "whatever I approve of today".

They reject the fundamental premise of America, that we are a nation of Laws, not Men.

And then they use that very line about Laws and Men as their rallying cry as they subvert the Law and inject the whims of their own Men into its hollowed out carcass.

They're not wrong. They're evil.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 24, 2025 02:38 PM (06Hmj)

40 30 The should ask the seditious six if they believe Trump has given any unconstitutional orders and which ones those were...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2025 02:37 PM (ynpvh)

They have. I would say "even" CNN did, but that is all an op. They asked it to give them an out. Which they took.

Each and every one of them says they didn't mean nothing by it.

Posted by: blaster at November 24, 2025 02:38 PM (RoO7G)

41 >>Color revolution, there is a manual and specific steps to take to create one.

I think that's why Trump acted so quickly and loudly to go after these ass clowns. Also why he wanted the Epstein crap to disappear.

The left will keep running these scams until they are stopped.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2025 02:38 PM (viF8m)

42 Color revolution, there is a manual and specific steps to take to create one.

Yup. Mike Benz and others have noted that these statements are along those lines, and that the head of the Army (Driscoll, but not Ed Driscoll) has been publicly cozying up to the Vindmans since this started. So you can already see the outlines of the intended color revolution.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 24, 2025 02:38 PM (2ocoG)

43 20 Bug-eyed, freaky looking chap.
Posted by: Count de Monet
=======
Circumcised penis head aka dickhead.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 02:38 PM (WDjG6)

44 We shall vote and litigate our way out of this. And we shall have better candidates.

All will be well!

Okay i just read that back and its even stupider now than it was years ago.

Posted by: Oh well, it was worth a try at November 24, 2025 02:38 PM (4C4f2)

45 I don’t believe that the term “illegal order” is defined anywhere.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 02:38 PM (77rzZ)

46 >Sounds right to me
But some Leftist fking judge will declare its his 1st Amendment freedom

Posted by: Skip
-----

this guy gets it

Posted by: Don Black at November 24, 2025 02:39 PM (AOsQT)

47 32 I remember watching the video and they said disobey "illegal orders", not just "orders."

What legal impact does that have?

Probably renders it not a crime.
Posted by: EFG at November 24, 2025 02:37 PM (vuQMF)

They ran every word through some attorney so they can weasel out of any repercussions is my guess.
I think saying illegal orders is a weasel way to have deniable when called on what they're doing. They mean any orders the left doesn't like are illegal but they won't say that.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 24, 2025 02:39 PM (vZUXb)

48 Pretty sure that guy could play Judge Doon's evil twin brother in the sequel to Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Dude has crazy eyes.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 24, 2025 02:40 PM (4S2yc)

49 Mark "Penishead" Kelley obviously thought he was immune from prosecution for his statements, but the extent of his cowardice is stunning: he was urging younger servicemen to throw away their entire career and face court-martial by refusing to follow their CiC.

These fuckstain shitburgers are really big and bold then it's other people who will face the consequences, aren't they? Why not do it yourself, big boy? You should be thrilled to be recalled into service to face the consequences.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 24, 2025 02:40 PM (iFTx/)

50 Senator CueBall looks like a Dick. Therefore he is a traitor and should be treated as such. These are rules Dims created, and I am happy to enforce them on them until time immemorial.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 24, 2025 02:40 PM (Dg7ng)

51 Officers in the US Armed Forces are under a special obligation to respect the chain of command.
Aren't they?

-
Not according to Pussy Blitzer.

NEW: Congresswoman Lisa McClain SILENCES Wolf Blitzer after he asks: “Should members of the US military or intelligence community obey what are clearly illegal orders?”

McCLAIN: “You're asking an enlisted person for their opinion on what they think is legal or illegal. That's a pretty slippery slope. Follow your commander in chief. That's the oath that you took.”
. . . .

BLITZER: During WW2, these Nazi officers were following the chain of command, obeying illegal orders and they slaughtered Jews during the Holocaust

LISA McCLAIN: We're a long way from the Nuremberg trials and the slaughtering of Jews. If you want to talk about the slaughtering the Jews we can have that conversation another time

-
P.S. It's not Trump and MAGA who favor killing the Jews.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 24, 2025 02:40 PM (L/fGl)

52 I'm not sayin' it was Mark Kelly...

...but it was Mark Kelly.

Posted by: Giorgio Tsoukalos at November 24, 2025 02:40 PM (UnA8+)

53 Is it just possible that the Sedition Video was a PsyOp to draw Trump & Co into another partisan fight to distract them from dealing with the economy and affordability... Issues where the Republicans are vulnerable?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at November 24, 2025 02:40 PM (nOzI+)

54 37 I thought that they were both astronauts.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 02:40 PM (77rzZ)

55 I don’t believe that the term “illegal order” is defined anywhere.
Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 02:38 PM (77rzZ)

Get it right, H8R - undocumented order.

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2025 02:40 PM (Ltmlv)

56 Okay i just read that back and its even stupider now than it was years ago.

Posted by: Oh well, it was worth a try

Is there some reason we weren't just wedgie-ing jokers that spewed that bit on the spot back then? I'm still not clear on that.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at November 24, 2025 02:40 PM (OUMaO)

57 Half of this country thinks "legal" means "whatever I approve of today".
==
More importanly, half the judiciary thinks this.

Posted by: Oh well, it was worth a try at November 24, 2025 02:40 PM (4C4f2)

58 They ran every word through some attorney so they can weasel out of any repercussions is my guess.
I think saying illegal orders is a weasel way to have deniable when called on what they're doing. They mean any orders the left doesn't like are illegal but they won't say that.
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 24, 2025 02:39 PM (vZUXb)


Geez. Weasel is taking a beating today......Poor guy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 02:40 PM (Zz0t1)

59 Dang, that is one bug-eyed looking mutant.

Posted by: Sen. Adam Schiff at November 24, 2025 02:41 PM (Riz8t)

60 I thought that they were both astronauts.
Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 02:40 PM (77rzZ)


I really don't know as I don't give a flying f*ck about either one of them and haven't followed their career for one minute other than the fact that I know THIS f*ck is married to HoleInHead.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 02:42 PM (Zz0t1)

61 It does set up an interesting paradigm. Those not Leftists are seeing example after example of how Leftist civilian officials are immune from the law and the Constitution no matter what they do. And if these courts martial come to pass, it would appear to civilian observers that the UCMJ does have a possibility of delivering law and justice. I am not sure that is the kind of example that the old "Civics" classes back when I was in school [Paleolithic days] would like.

Subotai Bahadur

Posted by: Subotai Bahadur at November 24, 2025 02:42 PM (d58be)

62 Is it just possible that the Sedition Video was a PsyOp to draw Trump & Co into another partisan fight to distract them from dealing with the economy and affordability... Issues where the Republicans are vulnerable?

No, there are signs all over the place that the CIA color revolution playbook is fully in play against Trump. Yes, it's also a distraction, but GOPe won't fix that stuff anyway.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 24, 2025 02:42 PM (2ocoG)

63
Get it right, H8R - undocumented order.
Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2025 02:40 PM (Ltmlv)


Asylum seeking order?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 02:42 PM (Zz0t1)

64 Kelly's eyes remind me of the way hypnotized or brainwashed people looked in old movies.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at November 24, 2025 02:42 PM (kTd/k)

65 Why bother? The it will get thrown out just like the rest. Bout done with trump.

Posted by: Bob at November 24, 2025 02:43 PM (YiqZD)

66 Did the lack of gravity in space cause Kelly's eyes to bulge out?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 24, 2025 02:43 PM (bfwj/)

67


He looks like the Hills Have eyes guy.

Posted by: Rev DR E Buzz at November 24, 2025 02:43 PM (och2J)

68 45 I don’t believe that the term “illegal order” is defined anywhere.
Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 02:38 PM (77rzZ)

The term is its own definition.

A soldier can't be ordered to rob a liquor store. A soldier can't be ordered to murder a non-combatant.

There are no legal niceties to sift through. But as with everything the Evil party touches, the simple is made to seem bafflingly complex while the bafflingly complex is distilled down to a retarded five word slogan that may or may not rhyme.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 24, 2025 02:43 PM (06Hmj)

69

Geez. Weasel is taking a beating today......Poor guy.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 02:40 PM (Zz0t1)

Aww, now I feel bad and I need a different word for weasel.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 24, 2025 02:43 PM (vZUXb)

70 Kelly's eyes remind me of the way hypnotized or brainwashed people looked in old movies.

Marty Feldman in Young Frankenstein?

Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2025 02:43 PM (Riz8t)

71 55 I don’t believe that the term “illegal order” is defined anywhere.
Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 02:38 PM (77rzZ)

Get it right, H8R - undocumented order.

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2025 02:40 PM (Ltmlv)

Mis, Dis, Mal, and Un-documented orders...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2025 02:44 PM (ynpvh)

72 39 Of course an issue that hinges on what "legal" means is going to turn into a ridiculous fiasco.

Half of this country thinks "legal" means "whatever I approve of today".

They reject the fundamental premise of America, that we are a nation of Laws, not Men.

And then they use that very line about Laws and Men as their rallying cry as they subvert the Law and inject the whims of their own Men into its hollowed out carcass.

They're not wrong. They're evil.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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I would be very careful about assuming anything regarding voting or popular opinion via polling.

Basically in most political society, about 10-15 percent are engaged all the time with eating,breathing, etc. politics. About evenly divided between GOP and Democrats with a sprinking of minor party types. So most of the hype you are seeing about color revolution crap is from about 5-7 percent of the population with those who casually follow politics multiplying it to about 22-25 percent of the US population.

It is MADE to seem bigger than it ever is in popular support. But in reality, it relies on fraud, control of vote counting, selected examples of rioting, street marches, etc. by those paid,

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 02:44 PM (WDjG6)

73 Did the lack of gravity in space cause Kelly's eyes to bulge out?

He got too close to Adam Schiff in the Congressional shower and the bug eye disease jumped hosts.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 24, 2025 02:44 PM (2ocoG)

74 He's got Ozempic Face, I'd say.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 24, 2025 02:44 PM (06Hmj)

75 I thought that they were both astronauts.
Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 02:40 PM (77rzZ)
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Space cadets, maybe.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 24, 2025 02:44 PM (0cOaq)

76 Did the lack of gravity in space cause Kelly's eyes to bulge out?

It was probably the air pump he stuck up his butt at the gas station.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2025 02:44 PM (Riz8t)

77 I remember watching the video and they said disobey "illegal orders", not just "orders."

What legal impact does that have?

Probably renders it not a crime.
Posted by: EFG at November 24, 2025 02:37 PM (vuQMF)

They ran every word through some attorney so they can weasel out of any repercussions is my guess.
I think saying illegal orders is a weasel way to have deniable when called on what they're doing. They mean any orders the left doesn't like are illegal but they won't say that.
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 24, 2025 02:39 PM (vZUXb)
_____

100% they vetted all this with lawyers. The entire thing was scripted and staged. And yes, they were very careful to say "illegal orders."

But that might not get them out of jail free, especially under the UCMJ (which is broader than civilian criminal law). Their statements were heavily lawyered, but the intent was clear as day: Trump is giving illegal orders and you should resist them.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 24, 2025 02:45 PM (iFTx/)

78 69 Aww, now I feel bad and I need a different word for weasel.
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 24, 2025 02:43 PM (vZUXb)

Mustelid.

Posted by: XTC at November 24, 2025 02:45 PM (UnA8+)

79 Did the lack of gravity in space cause Kelly's eyes to bulge out?

He got too close to Adam Schiff in the Congressional shower and the bug eye disease jumped hosts.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 24, 2025 02:44 PM (2ocoG)

It's an STD.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at November 24, 2025 02:45 PM (91TQ2)

80 As noted by others, this is Trump strangling another Color Revolution in the crib.

The video wasn't spontaneous or a one-off:
It was Act 1 of a whole series of acts and related events they've planned out to amp "Impeachment III" up.

Next is/was pre-planted officers who anonymously claim orders are illegal.

There were/are planned a whole bunch of former-military "MAGA" social media accounts staged to roll in with agreement.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 24, 2025 02:45 PM (VlU/R)

81 Their statements were heavily lawyered, but the intent was clear as day: Trump is giving illegal orders and you should resist them.

They've said, separately, that deporting illegals is an illegal order.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 24, 2025 02:46 PM (2ocoG)

82 Some judge will just invalidate it, as always.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 24, 2025 02:46 PM (3uBP9)

83 a judge has already ruled that the prosecutor cannot bring charges, due to democrat.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 24, 2025 02:46 PM (0U5gm)

84 There were/are planned a whole bunch of former-military "MAGA" social media accounts staged to roll in with agreement.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 24, 2025 02:45 PM (VlU/R)

From.... Pakistan?

There really is no such thing as a coincidence, is there?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 24, 2025 02:46 PM (06Hmj)

85 Mr Grabby Giffords

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 24, 2025 02:46 PM (HTa/G)

86 Hegseth should personally execute the sentence.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 24, 2025 02:46 PM (rGPrJ)

87 77
But that might not get them out of jail free, especially under the UCMJ (which is broader than civilian criminal law). Their statements were heavily lawyered, but the intent was clear as day: Trump is giving illegal orders and you should resist them.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 24, 2025 02:45 PM (iFTx/)

=======

"Grunts should steal American aircraft to go fight Putin because Trump is illegally not ordering America to go to war in Ukraine."
-I bet

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 02:46 PM (GBKbO)

88 Kelly has no allegiance to America.

Posted by: Eromero at November 24, 2025 02:47 PM (Bg+2b)

89 CIA color revolution playbook is fully in play against Trump. Yes, it's also a distraction, but GOPe won't fix that stuff anyway.
==
Yep. They are trying to lay groundwork for the processwhich will used to justify the coup. They are gonna claim trump is a tyrant and they are lawfully throwing him out. The endless insane provocations have so far failed to trigger a response beyond appeals. They will eventually manufactur something.

Posted by: Oh well, it was worth a try at November 24, 2025 02:47 PM (4C4f2)

90 Do it.

Posted by: steevy at November 24, 2025 02:47 PM (YwEeS)

91 Elections in Arizona are like those in other cheat by mail states. Not a valid indication that the Democrat actually won.
Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 02:34 PM (WDjG6)

We are voting as hard as we CAN

Posted by: Kindltot - from the land of 125% voter turnout at November 24, 2025 02:48 PM (rbvCR)

92 Because they broadcast their seditious statement to the world, they influenced uniformed people in every military installation. No need to try him in front of a DC jury, feel free to put him in front of a jury of officers from the Wyoming National Guard.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at November 24, 2025 02:48 PM (NBcgk)

93 Please send MP's into the Senate to cuff Kelly and remove him to the base, in the most humiliating fashion.

Posted by: Dave's not here at November 24, 2025 02:48 PM (kp5iD)

94 62 Is it just possible that the Sedition Video was a PsyOp to draw Trump & Co into another partisan fight to distract them from dealing with the economy and affordability... Issues where the Republicans are vulnerable?

No, there are signs all over the place that the CIA color revolution playbook is fully in play against Trump. Yes, it's also a distraction, but GOPe won't fix that stuff anyway.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 24, 2025 02:42 PM (2ocoG)

This. The CIA needs a cleaning like the Stygian stables did.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2025 02:49 PM (ynpvh)

95
He got too close to Adam Schiff in the Congressional shower and the bug eye disease jumped hosts.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 24, 2025 02:44 PM (2ocoG)

It's an STD.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at November 24, 2025 02:45 PM (91TQ2)

So facial syphllis is a thing and apparently is contagious.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 24, 2025 02:49 PM (vZUXb)

96 Waste of time.

FOCUS on the economy.

Posted by: coba at November 24, 2025 02:49 PM (IuIym)

97 Imagine this guy's o-face.

The horror, the horror.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 24, 2025 02:49 PM (wVcYX)

98 Augean Stables...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2025 02:49 PM (ynpvh)

99 Yeah? What are the Statute of limitations on sedition?

Posted by: Shaftoe at November 24, 2025 02:50 PM (Rvxb7)

100 don't know what the point is of announcing they are "considering" this action, unless they really are trying to fvck with his head

maybe they are monitoring his technology to see where his panic calls/texts/emails are going

Posted by: kallisto at November 24, 2025 02:50 PM (dCxaZ)

101 It’s always helpful to look at Article 88 of the UCMJ.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 24, 2025 02:50 PM (XNKbf)

102 95
He got too close to Adam Schiff in the Congressional shower and the bug eye disease jumped hosts.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 24, 2025 02:44 PM (2ocoG)

It's an STD.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at November 24, 2025 02:45 PM (91TQ2)

So facial syphllis is a thing and apparently is contagious.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 24, 2025 02:49 PM (vZUXb)

So those Japanese into eyeball licking...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2025 02:50 PM (ynpvh)

103 Some judge will just invalidate it, as always.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 24, 2025 02:46 PM (3uBP9)

83 a judge has already ruled that the prosecutor cannot bring charges, due to democrat.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at November 24, 2025 02:46 PM (0U5gm)

[Touching fists] Cynic powers ACTIVATE!

Posted by: banana Dream at November 24, 2025 02:50 PM (3uBP9)

104 88 Kelly has no allegiance to America.
Posted by: Eromero
=======
Well, he is likely to have a cartel hand up his ass telling him what to say and do. Plus, apparently he was one of the people that Obama wanted as Dem 2024 nominee instead of Kamala.

Apparently treats his brain damaged wife horribly as well which would figure for an asshole like Kelly was. Remember how he purposefully broke firearm laws to promote his sorry ass campaign against gun rights.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 02:50 PM (WDjG6)

105 I'm still waiting for that carrier captain who panicked over covid to get some consequences.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 24, 2025 02:50 PM (8VwBr)

106 IO stands for what in this context? Information Operations?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 02:35 PM (dK+Kv)

That is what I understand.

Look, I just did tax law. I depend on others for arcana

Posted by: Kindltot - from the land of 125% voter turnout at November 24, 2025 02:51 PM (rbvCR)

107 I assume the “nothing will happen” guy has already weighed in? I try to do a little work even on Thanksgiving week and I miss a Nood

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 24, 2025 02:51 PM (/iXAp)

108 Take a look at Elissa Slotkin's background. CIA, DOD, State Dept., she's as swampy as they come.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2025 02:51 PM (viF8m)

109 96 Waste of time.

FOCUS on the economy.

Posted by: coba at November 24, 2025 02:49 PM (IuIym)

======

The economy that's seeing rents diving, wages increasing, inflation under wages, and general improvements almost all from deporting about 3 million people?

People who bitch about the economy and the "affordability crisis" who don't acknowledge any of the actual advancements are either stupid or trolls.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 02:51 PM (GBKbO)

110 87 "Grunts should steal American aircraft to go fight Putin because Trump is illegally not ordering America to go to war in Ukraine."
-I bet
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 02:46 PM (GBKbO)

"Europe demands that the US kill Putin, so therefore not killing Putin is illegal!"

Posted by: XTC at November 24, 2025 02:51 PM (UnA8+)

111
In doing all of this, Crow shifts the conversation away from what was actually said and into a battle over perceived intent, a classic PSYOP mechanism that reframes political disagreement as existential warfare.

This is not an evidentiary argument—it is a strategic influence play aimed at narrative dominance.

It is important that Americans recognize these tactics so that they can understand when propaganda is being pushed by their own government officials.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 02:33 PM (rbvCR)

Of course, I just think he is an asshole so I dismiss everything he does.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 24, 2025 02:51 PM (XNKbf)

112 What are the Statute of limitations on sedition
==
With or without a successful overthrow of the govt?

Posted by: It matters doesnt it at November 24, 2025 02:51 PM (4C4f2)

113 Their statements were heavily lawyered, but the intent was clear as day: Trump is giving illegal orders and you should resist them.

They've said, separately, that deporting illegals is an illegal order.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 24, 2025 02:46 PM (2ocoG)
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The NG are defending federal agents being attacked as they are doing their duty. I think the attack on federal officers is illegal.

I think it's a bad precedent to recognize the "riot veto".

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 02:51 PM (krQz2)

114

Mr. Space Man, I want to be a space man too, d-d-be -bop-a-bop

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 24, 2025 02:51 PM (pkeXY)

115 The economy that's seeing rents diving, wages increasing, inflation under wages, and general improvements almost all from deporting about 3 million people?

People who bitch about the economy and the "affordability crisis" who don't acknowledge any of the actual advancements are either stupid or trolls.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 02:51 PM (GBKbO)

A major thing that might kick in over the next few months is the decline of prices at the pump.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 24, 2025 02:52 PM (XNKbf)

116 You want me on that wall. You need me on that wall. ...

Posted by: Captain Mark Kelly, USN (Ret.) at November 24, 2025 02:52 PM (wVcYX)

117 When they were airing the seditious six statement on talk radio I was screaming in my car. "YOU commies are the domestic enemies, Trump is the patriot"

Posted by: PaleRider at November 24, 2025 02:52 PM (hhkIi)

118
Those cosmic rays must have done some real damage to Kelly's brain.

Posted by: YIKES! at November 24, 2025 02:53 PM (OgWfa)

119 113 The NG are defending federal agents being attacked as they are doing their duty. I think the attack on federal officers is illegal.

I think it's a bad precedent to recognize the "riot veto".

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 02:51 PM (krQz2)

=====

You...you were alive during 2020, right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 02:53 PM (GBKbO)

120 >>> maybe they are monitoring his technology to see where his panic calls/texts/emails are going
Posted by: kallisto at November 24, 2025 02:50 PM (dCxaZ)

text message from GOP number 8 bajilion:

Don't you see us owning the libs for you brother? Why are you not donating? Don't you want to continue seeing us owning the libs? See these sad kittens? They are crying because you are not helping us own the libs.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 24, 2025 02:53 PM (3uBP9)

121 96 Waste of time.

FOCUS on the economy.
Posted by: coba at November 24, 2025 02:49 PM (IuIym)

It is painful to accept but being President means dealing with many, many things.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 24, 2025 02:53 PM (XNKbf)

122
House Republican veterans speak DIRECTLY to the military and intelligence community, urging them to stand strong for law, order, and the Constitution.

https://is.gd/CZw4yy

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 24, 2025 02:53 PM (wcolm)

123 Waste of time.

FOCUS on the economy.

Posted by: coba at November 24, 2025 02:49 PM (IuIym)

======

The economy that's seeing rents diving, wages increasing, inflation under wages, and general improvements almost all from deporting about 3 million people?

People who bitch about the economy and the "affordability crisis" who don't acknowledge any of the actual advancements are either stupid or trolls.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 02:51 PM (GBKbO)

Aside from that, there are a lot of one hit wonder, Johnnie Come Latelies suddenly "concerned" about all of Trump's doings, almost as if they are only here to sew discontent and spread FUD.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 02:54 PM (dK+Kv)

124 Europe demands that the US kill Putin, so therefore not killing Putin is illegal!"
==
Trannies are people and should be allowed to serve therefore i will shoot my own dick off in protest.

Posted by: Gomer Woke Pyle at November 24, 2025 02:54 PM (4C4f2)

125 Yeah? What are the Statute of limitations on sedition?
Posted by: Shaftoe at November 24, 2025 02:50 PM (Rvxb7)

Let’s check with Kramer…

https://tinyurl.com/mr3xfzkt

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 24, 2025 02:54 PM (/iXAp)

126
It is painful to accept but being President means dealing with many, many things.
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 24, 2025 02:53 PM (XNKbf)


But, he's a stupid poopy head that has no clue what he's doing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 02:54 PM (Zz0t1)

127 ANY order up to and including executing civilians (Ala J6 reichstag fire) by democrats is legal and you will be prosecuted for not following it.

The converse is true for Republicans.

See how that works?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 02:54 PM (zZu0s)

128 123 Aside from that, there are a lot of one hit wonder, Johnnie Come Latelies suddenly "concerned" about all of Trump's doings, almost as if they are only here to sew discontent and spread FUD.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 02:54 PM (dK+Kv)

======

If only Pixy could program in the location thing like X just did...

Then you'd see that I'm actually Antarctican.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 02:54 PM (GBKbO)

129
Kelly can say it wasn't him said that but his brother (They are twins).

Posted by: YIKES! at November 24, 2025 02:55 PM (OgWfa)

130 Where have you gone, Spaceman Spiff?

A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 02:55 PM (77rzZ)

131 You would think Trump would have learned something the first go-round, but then it appears he is incapable of learning. This would be another amateur hour move, right along with the goatfuck that the Comey and James indictments turned into.

There's been years of actual criminal acts committed, and they're wasting time with this. If you do it right the first time, then there's less chance of it being thrown back in your face. Still might happen, but at least you're not beclowning yourself in the process.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at November 24, 2025 02:55 PM (MZ+PY)

132 It'll never happen. Or if it does, some Dem Judge will throw it out before it starts.

Posted by: Iblis at November 24, 2025 02:55 PM (9221z)

133 88 Kelly has no allegiance to America.
Posted by: Eromero at November 24, 2025 02:47 PM (Bg+2b)

No allegiance but to himself.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 24, 2025 02:55 PM (XNKbf)

134 This video is the equivalence of those "sovereign citizen" videos.

"No, that order is unconstitutional."
"Am I being detained."

I want to see someone try it. Tell the court their congressman made them do it.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 24, 2025 02:56 PM (8VwBr)

135 And I DGAF about the technical definition of sedition:

These are the same assholes that have been lying for years that "Trump incited an insurrection!!" on J6.

F 'em.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 24, 2025 02:56 PM (VlU/R)

136 IO stands for what in this context? Information Operations?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 02:35 PM (dK+Kv)

That is what I understand.

Look, I just did tax law. I depend on others for arcana

Posted by: Kindltot - from the land of 125% voter turnout at November 24, 2025 02:51 PM (rbvCR)

I have a friend who is in military intel and knows well this FM and the concepts presented in that tweet I am sure. Unfortunately, he is a bit of a leftist and it likely would not be a friendly conversation. Pity.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 02:56 PM (dK+Kv)

137 My estimate of the Dems play here is cast a shroud of questionability over the legality of blowing up their future voters who are transporting illegal goods on the high seas.

They are hoping someone in the military will act on that and then the argument will be on. The Dems won't be a part of it, it will all be between some active duty Navy Captain who has a transitioning child and Trump.

Posted by: blaster at November 24, 2025 02:56 PM (RoO7G)

138 The economy that's seeing rents diving, wages increasing, inflation under wages, and general improvements almost all from deporting about 3 million people?

People who bitch about the economy and the "affordability crisis" who don't acknowledge any of the actual advancements are either stupid or trolls.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 02:51 PM (GBKbO)

A major thing that might kick in over the next few months is the decline of prices at the pump.
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 24, 2025 02:52 PM (XNKbf)
____

Three things will motivate GOP voters:

1. Economy
2. Vengeance
3. Boobs

#1 is already in play and moving in the right direction. I personally think Trump has done more for the economy in 10 months than any president ever.

Going after ratfucks like Kelly ticks #2.

#3? You bros are on your own. But happy, optimistic girls are more likely to show you their boobs than bitter miserable ones.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 24, 2025 02:56 PM (iFTx/)

139 Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at November 24, 2025 02:55 PM (MZ+PY)

Interesting . I have only seen you post negative things about Trump. Hmmmmm.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 24, 2025 02:57 PM (RKlIw)

140 Yep just like in the Kubrick movie we stand him strapped to a stretcher and shoot him at dawn.

All the leftists will shriek but say nothing about all the valient soldiers killed doing their duty.

Posted by: torabora at November 24, 2025 02:57 PM (6/eme)

141 If only Pixy could program in the location thing like X just did...

Then you'd see that I'm actually Antarctican.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 02:54 PM (GBKbO)

I thought you were Promethean?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 02:57 PM (dK+Kv)

142 Then you'd see that I'm actually Antarctican.
==
Is that why walk like a penguin???

Posted by: Walk like an antarctican at November 24, 2025 02:57 PM (4C4f2)

143 I thought a lot of this was overblown until somebody posted the text of 18 U.S.C.

"Having an opinion" IS "I don't think the President should have ordered C, because that is illegal for him to do."

"Hey, you troops, we're going to tell you that the president is ordering illegal actions" is NOT "having an opinion". It's in violation of the law that says you can't interfere with military morale and chain of command.

As typical the difference that Dems don't want to see will not be seen.

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 02:57 PM (krQz2)

144 The other female Senator in this gang was a CIA officer, so guess lots were out to get President Trump the first administration

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2025 02:58 PM (+qU29)

145 As I have noted elsewhere (and you can see in that photo), Mark Kelly is the most prominent D.C. figure who looks like he's wearing one of those newfangled high-tech masks. They're nearly perfect, except for the unavoidable: you put extra material around the eyes, they become deep-set.

Maybe he's just a mutant freak, but I have been made aware that he has a twin who is also an astronaut, which makes this neatly testable. Twins frequently share personality traits, and the wealthy are notoriously cheap; so, if Mark has an aversion to the inanities of meet-and-greets, then his twin probably does too -- and they would almost certainly take advantage of the cost savings of hiring the same body double to cover both of them, since they're supposed to look the same anyway.

Hypothesis: That's an actor in a mask.
Null hypothesis: He's a mutant freak.
Test: Look for photos of him at events where he's seated next to his twin. If they look like normal people, then yeah, they're using a body double for their solo appearances; if they still have deep-set eyes, then it's more likely that they're mutant freaks than that they're rich people who aren't cheapskates.

Posted by: SciVo at November 24, 2025 02:58 PM (vQLHf)

146 People who bitch about the economy and the "affordability crisis" who don't acknowledge any of the actual advancements are either stupid or trolls.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
======
Back in the Usenet days, typologies of trolls floated around. You saw a lot of that in the tech threads where muh Intel, muh Apple, muh AMD shills were used for Fear Uncertainty and Doubt. A simple read of WCCTech threads even today show the same stupid (mas)debaters. Big on simple declarative sentences, very light on actual detail, nuance, nor dialectical truth.

Aristotle, in his The Art of Rhetoric, nailed describing human nature involved in social and political debates.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 02:59 PM (WDjG6)

147 Imagine this guy's o-face.

The horror, the horror.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 24, 2025 02:49 PM (wVcYX)

This place.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 02:59 PM (dK+Kv)

148 "116 You want me on that wall. You need me on that wall. ...

Posted by: Captain Mark Kelly, USN (Ret.) at November 24, 2025 02:52 PM (wVcYX) "

on a spike, over the gate ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 24, 2025 03:00 PM (Cjt/F)

149 ANY order up to and including executing civilians (Ala J6 reichstag fire) by democrats is legal and you will be prosecuted for not following it.

The converse is true for Republicans.

See how that works?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 02:54 PM (zZu0s)
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NO ONE is above the law that puts Dems on a different level than Pubs.

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 03:00 PM (krQz2)

150 As typical the difference that Dems don't want to see will not be seen.
Posted by: Axeman
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I no longer consider the Democrats and media other than a party of criminals and collaborators. I consider GOPe types as collaborators.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 03:00 PM (WDjG6)

151 Will anything come of this?

Posted by: Because nothing usually does at November 24, 2025 03:01 PM (QwTID)

152 132 It'll never happen. Or if it does, some Dem Judge will throw it out before it starts.

Dem appointed judges have zero jurisdiction in military tribunals.

Posted by: Dave's not here at November 24, 2025 03:02 PM (kp5iD)

153 Whig, I’ve said it before, and will again. Satan is a Democrat.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 03:02 PM (77rzZ)

154 144 The other female Senator in this gang was a CIA officer, so guess lots were out to get President Trump the first administration
Posted by: Skip
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Who also won a 'fake' victory relying on Detroit manufactured ballots to win.

Democrats are a party of criminals as I said.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 03:02 PM (WDjG6)

155 Then you'd see that I'm actually Antarctican.
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Is that why walk like a penguin???
Posted by: Walk like an antarctican at November 24, 2025 02:57 PM (4C4f2)

It doesn't matter when it's Arcturian, baby!

Posted by: Private Frost at November 24, 2025 03:02 PM (wVcYX)

156 >>> Going after ratfucks like Kelly ticks #2.



I don't know if people realize this but the GOP repeatedly trying for the revenge angle and it always turns into a pathetic joke batted away effortlessly by our leftist rulers is even worse than nothing because:

1). Everybody then realizes it was just a stupid goatfvk with no real plan

2). The left has a record of being spectacularly successful at the same, throwing people in jail, dungeons pretty much, ruining people's lives, and have done so over and over again for decades with no sign of stopping and getting worse every cycle.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 24, 2025 03:03 PM (3uBP9)

157 Back in the Usenet days, typologies of trolls floated around. You saw a lot of that in the tech threads where muh Intel, muh Apple, muh AMD shills were used for Fear Uncertainty and Doubt. A simple read of WCCTech threads even today show the same stupid (mas)debaters. Big on simple declarative sentences, very light on actual detail, nuance, nor dialectical truth.

Aristotle, in his The Art of Rhetoric, nailed describing human nature involved in social and political debates.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 02:59 PM (WDjG6)

I am going to get there, but that is still on my to read list.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 03:03 PM (dK+Kv)

158 Can convictions under the UCMJ be appealed to SCOTUS?

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 03:03 PM (77rzZ)

159 This Kelly fellow is a bit of a twat, isn't he?

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 24, 2025 03:04 PM (6Bc88)

160 Don't you see us owning the libs for you brother? Why are you not donating? Don't you want to continue seeing us owning the libs? See these sad kittens? They are crying because you are not helping us own the libs.

I just unsubbed from a really annoying number that allegedly was Trump fundraiser

it sounded like it was coming from a very needy ex-boyfriend

Posted by: kallisto at November 24, 2025 03:04 PM (dCxaZ)

161 This Kelly fellow is a bit of a twat, isn't he?

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 24, 2025 03:04 PM (6Bc8

He is the whole twat.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 03:04 PM (dK+Kv)

162 158 Can convictions under the UCMJ be appealed to SCOTUS?
Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 03:03 PM (77rzZ)

Not to my knowledge. Different silos.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 24, 2025 03:04 PM (6Bc88)

163 *Is that why walk like a penguin???*

We tried that.
Went with Egyptians instead.

Posted by: The Bangles at November 24, 2025 03:05 PM (QwTID)

164 I have a friend who is in military intel and knows well this FM and the concepts presented in that tweet I am sure. Unfortunately, he is a bit of a leftist and it likely would not be a friendly conversation. Pity.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

Most of them are ultimately stupid. You can start a color revolution but without popular support, which these assholes never get, it falls apart often into a bloody mess. Ultimately tacit approval of a populace is necessary--without that, color revolutions end up eating their own.

Too many intellectuals are too enamored with their own intelligence to believe that other people can see through their self serving bullshit and tyranny.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 03:06 PM (WDjG6)

165 /signs up for Twitter /X Whatever the heck it's called today

/sees location as being "Zeta Reticulae"

Fair cop...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at November 24, 2025 03:06 PM (OUMaO)

166 Driving back to work after my doctor's appointment I listened to the Cranbarries 'Dream' song. I really liked that sound. Too bad about the crazy chick dying and all.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 24, 2025 03:06 PM (Wg6v7)

167 sounded like it was coming from a very needy ex-boyfriend
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Please to send Bobs and Vagine pix!!!!

Posted by: Its me sanjay!! Whats up hit me back yo at November 24, 2025 03:06 PM (4C4f2)

168 158 Can convictions under the UCMJ be appealed to SCOTUS?
Posted by: Bulg
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US Court of Military Appeals and thence to Scotus. Like state cases, Scotus has ultimate oversight if a federal question is involved but before then, it goes through the state court system.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 03:07 PM (WDjG6)

169 When I left the Navy after 13 years, it was my understanding that I was transferred to the inactive reserve, subject to recall to active duty at the discretion of the PTB.

I guess that may be different from being retired, but maybe there's a loophole there to investigate those who bailed short of retirement and perhaps activate them to stand court martial if warranted?

Posted by: one hour sober at November 24, 2025 03:07 PM (Y1sOo)

170 Too many intellectuals are too enamored with their own intelligence to believe that other people can see through their self serving bullshit and tyranny.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 03:06 PM (WDjG6)

This, too, is the story of Obama.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 03:07 PM (dK+Kv)

171 135 And I DGAF about the technical definition of sedition:

These are the same assholes that have been lying for years that "Trump incited an insurrection!!" on J6.

F 'em.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 24, 2025 02:56 PM (VlU/R)

This, please.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 24, 2025 03:07 PM (6Bc88)

172 This Kelly fellow is a bit of a twat, isn't he?

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 24, 2025 03:04 PM (6Bc8

He is the whole twat.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 03:04 PM (dK+Kv)

He is more like the girl who does not even want to argue fuck, but just wants to pick a fight about anything and everything.

Kind of useless.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 03:08 PM (zZu0s)

173 A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness. The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

Posted by: Lord Comey at November 24, 2025 03:08 PM (WFC1M)

174 158 Can convictions under the UCMJ be appealed to SCOTUS?
Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 03:03 PM (77rzZ)


Depends. Is the conviction of a Leftist?

(Intended as AOSHQ level snark but Bowe Bergdahl's desertion conviction was overturned by a Federal District judge.)

Posted by: blaster at November 24, 2025 03:08 PM (RoO7G)

175 152 132 It'll never happen. Or if it does, some Dem Judge will throw it out before it starts.

Dem appointed judges have zero jurisdiction in military tribunals.
Posted by: Dave's not here at November 24, 2025 03:02 PM (kp5iD)

I'm sure there are plenty of Leftist judges in the military who can preside over his court martial. Sorry, it's getting harder not to be black-pilled at this point.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at November 24, 2025 03:08 PM (8hxDK)

176 I remember when one officer pointed out Bill Clinton was a pot smoking draft dodger - a 100% objectively true statement - and he was removed for it.

Now we have politicians demanding members of the military commit insubordination under threat of prosecution if they don't?

That sounds more like an insurrection that anything the protestors on J6 did.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2025 03:09 PM (sKqQm)

177 Is this Gabby’s husband, or his twin?
Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 02:33 PM (77rzZ)

Mark Kelly is actually the reason Loughner shot Gabby. Loughner was obsessed with Gabby (he had a shrine to her at his parent's house) and had a bunch of conspiracy theories about NASA. When Gabby announced she was marrying Kelly the Astronut, Loughner went further round the bend and into homicidal rage.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at November 24, 2025 03:10 PM (Hb1Lg)

178 (Intended as AOSHQ level snark but Bowe Bergdahl's desertion conviction was overturned by a Federal District judge.)
Posted by: blaster at November 24, 2025 03:08 PM (RoO7G)



I remember when I told my buddy who was retiring after 23 years in the Marine Corps about them trading for Bergdahl. "WHAT!?!? We don't negotiate with terrorists!!!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 03:10 PM (Zz0t1)

179 I can see Slotkin saying " sorry Mark I can't be a witness because I will be having to do something else that day. Swearsies"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 24, 2025 03:10 PM (bfwj/)

180 I see Wolf Blitzer blathered on about Nuremberg in response to this.

Well, the only Nuremberg worthy thing the US military has done in recent memory is forcing its own soldiers to take a poison shot.

So by all means lets get those trials going right Wolfie?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2025 03:10 PM (sKqQm)

181 When Gabby announced she was marrying Kelly the Astronut, Loughner went further round the bend and into homicidal rage.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at November 24, 2025 03:10 PM (Hb1Lg)


Not true. It's because Sarah Palin put a crosshairs on Arizona on a map.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 03:11 PM (Zz0t1)

182 >>> Driving back to work after my doctor's appointment I listened to the Cranbarries 'Dream' song. I really liked that sound. Too bad about the crazy chick dying and all.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 24, 2025 03:06 PM (Wg6v7)


She was severely depressed a lot and self medicated with massive quantities of alcohol. Not an excuse, and not a good choice, but I dearly sympathize with people like her most days. Which is why I'll stop dooming, because with me there's no end to it and I'll just go off the deep end.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 24, 2025 03:11 PM (3uBP9)

183 Doesn't the military have the "Political Opposition Clause" wherein you can't court-martial someone for treason or seditious conspiracy if they are the politicial opposition?

Posted by: t-bird at November 24, 2025 03:11 PM (Lp05i)

184 The whole thing with Maxine Waters demanding to be let in to DoE buildings, Dems in Congress trying to get into ICE facilities, combined with this political propaganda shows you that lawmakers don't know that their job is, and they don't know how to do their jobs.

Ask some Pubs in Congress how hard it was to get into jails to see the J6 prisoners!

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 03:11 PM (krQz2)

185 I would like to see his dome buffed with a wire wheel on PPV. I crack myself up. Nothing will be done.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 24, 2025 03:11 PM (abIsI)

186 I miss Maxine Waters' Hair.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 03:12 PM (Zz0t1)

187 That is one weird looking dude. Or is it cruel to mention that?

Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 03:12 PM (PCK5/)

188 I remember when I told my buddy who was retiring after 23 years in the Marine Corps about them trading for Bergdahl. "WHAT!?!? We don't negotiate with terrorists!!!"

At one point during the Syrian conflict the US was funding two different factions at war with each other both labeled terrorists.

So not only do we negotiate with terrorists we have many different groups of them on retainer...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2025 03:12 PM (sKqQm)

189 >>I'm sure there are plenty of Leftist judges in the military who can preside over his court martial. Sorry, it's getting harder not to be black-pilled at this point.

I don't get that at all. Yea, we've had some setbacks in court decisions but they are almost always overturned. Illegals are being deported, the economy is turning around, wars are ending, and on and on.

We seem to be doing a lot of winning and the left is coming apart at the seams. When AOC is the new leader of your party that's when you get black pilled.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2025 03:12 PM (viF8m)

190
The same congressmen/senators who want military members to disobey orders are the same ones who closed the government and stopped paychecks to military members.

They don't care about you. At all. Just what they can use you for.

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 24, 2025 03:13 PM (IifOV)

191 That is one weird looking dude. Or is it cruel to mention that?
Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 03:12 PM (PCK5/)


He, too, is a poster child for face pollution.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 03:13 PM (Zz0t1)

192 Any chance Mark Kelly is actually an alien replicant?

Because as time is going on he is looking less and less human...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2025 03:14 PM (sKqQm)

193 I see Wolf Blitzer blathered on about Nuremberg in response to this.
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Of course. But Nuremburg was not about "potentially illegal orders". It was about whether or not being actually ordered actual evil things gives you the excuse it was ordered.

"Big Jeopardy Loser" Wolf Blitzer should always be his full title.

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 03:14 PM (krQz2)

194 So not only do we negotiate with terrorists we have many different groups of them on retainer...
Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2025 03:12 PM (sKqQm)

By law we send $40m a week to the Taliban....

Posted by: blaster at November 24, 2025 03:14 PM (RoO7G)

195 Save democracy by staging a military coup against the duly elected president.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 03:15 PM (HW6XE)

196 191 That is one weird looking dude. Or is it cruel to mention that?
Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 03:12 PM (PCK5/)


He, too, is a poster child for face pollution.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 03:13 PM (Zz0t1)

Ya know I was thinking about making snark on going out to dinner on a couples thing with Gabby and Mark, but backed off because that exceeded VDH and Ace cruelty levels.

Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 03:16 PM (PCK5/)

197 193 I see Wolf Blitzer blathered on about Nuremberg in response to this.
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Of course. But Nuremburg was not about "potentially illegal orders". It was about whether or not being actually ordered actual evil things gives you the excuse it was ordered.

"Big Jeopardy Loser" Wolf Blitzer should always be his full title.

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 03:14 PM (krQz2)

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The Tokyo Trials > The Nuremberg Trials.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 03:16 PM (GBKbO)

198 It does amuse me that according to the left the following are illegal activities for our military:

Killing jihadis
Killing nacro-terrorists
Protecting the border

Put making soldiers wear high heels or take a poison shot? Well that's a-ok.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2025 03:17 PM (sKqQm)

199 128 123 Aside from that, there are a lot of one hit wonder, Johnnie Come Latelies suddenly "concerned" about all of Trump's doings, almost as if they are only here to sew discontent and spread FUD.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 02:54 PM (dK+Kv)

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If only Pixy could program in the location thing like X just did...

Then you'd see that I'm actually Antarctican.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 02:54 PM (GBKbO)

Or even Uncle-Arctican.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 24, 2025 03:18 PM (ynpvh)

200 Trump is giving illegal orders and you should resist them.
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Check out every single anti-ICE protest.

They all say what Trump is doing is illegal.
They all yell at the officers that their oath says they shouldn't follow illegal orders.

This was 100% meant to say Trump's orders are illegal.

It's like saying, "I didn't yell 'FIRE!' in the theater, I yelled 'I feel like I'm on FIRE!!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 24, 2025 03:18 PM (VlU/R)

201 Not true. It's because Sarah Palin put a crosshairs on Arizona on a map.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 03:11 PM (Zz0t1)

Yes, this is known. It was decreed by the FNM and the Donks (BIRM) and written onto the scrolls of Holy Writ, to be taught to the children as truth forevermore.

Also, complete and utter bovine scat. As usual.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at November 24, 2025 03:18 PM (Hb1Lg)

202 The Department of War is reportedly considering recalling Kelly to active duty, just to face an court martial for insubordination (and, I guess, insurrection).
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They should.

Nothing will change - and probably nothing CAN change - until Party Men routinely get destroyed. Court martial? Okay. But ensure there's prison time in addition to stripping him of his rank and dishonorably discharging him.

Party Men from the top to the middle *must* start going down and going down hard if there is to be any hope of change. It does not matter who it is, or the putative reason for it. Just start a scorched-earth war of destruction against *any* Party Man with moderate or better power or influence. Destroy them. I have come to believe that if you want reform, it must start with the personal destruction of those who profit - in whatever terms, be it money or power or respect or position or whatever else - from blocking reform.

Make being a Party Man absolutely terrifying. So yes. Court martial him. Destroy him totally. Then arbitrarily pick the text guy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 24, 2025 03:18 PM (0lawO)

203 Posted by: banana Dream at November 24, 2025 03:11 PM (3uBP9)

Do not go off the deep end. You have people who need you. If you think it would help, take some time off from politics and this board

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 24, 2025 03:19 PM (RKlIw)

204 That is one weird looking dude.

You are not kidding! What a flattering shot. I like to think he's looking at his future.

Posted by: t-bird at November 24, 2025 03:19 PM (Lp05i)

205 Five of the six individuals in that video do not fall under @DeptofWar
jurisdiction (one is CIA and four are former military but not "retired", so they are no longer subject to UCMJ). However, Mark Kelly (retired Navy Commander) is still subject to UCMJ--and he knows that.
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Subject to it on paper.

Now prove that he's subject to it in reality.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 24, 2025 03:19 PM (0lawO)

206 I lost on Jeopardy, baby
Oooh

Posted by: Wolf Blitzer at November 24, 2025 03:19 PM (wVcYX)

207 The senator representing the deep state and cia, Slotkin, admitted to ABC’s Martha Radditz that there have been no illegal orders ordered by Trump.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 03:20 PM (HW6XE)

208 In other words, service members can't simply say they feel immigration enforcement, for example, is unlawful and walk away, which is precisely what these Democrat lawmakers were trying to incite.
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Not at all.

They want to incite blanket disobedience. Anything uttered by the Orange Man is bad and must be refused. Let's not sugar-coat this.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 24, 2025 03:20 PM (0lawO)

209 206 I lost on Jeopardy, baby
Oooh

Posted by: Wolf Blitzer at November 24, 2025 03:19 PM (wVcYX)

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I showed Weird: The Al Yankovich Story to Junior.

He enjoyed it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 03:20 PM (GBKbO)

210 Fetterman actually looks better.

Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 03:20 PM (PCK5/)

211 I think the PTB are laying the groundwork for an Op. There's going to be some serious in your face happen where Trump is forced to send in some form of the military and the press is preparing to go hog wild.

Probably CA maybe LA and ICE with Newsome raising hell and trying to look like a leader.

Posted by: pawn at November 24, 2025 03:20 PM (sPsWv)

212 Mark Kelly's left ear ready for takeoff.

Posted by: wth at November 24, 2025 03:20 PM (v0R5T)

213 As typical the difference that Dems don't want to see will not be seen.
Posted by: Axeman
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I no longer consider the Democrats and media other than a party of criminals and collaborators. I consider GOPe types as collaborators.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 03:00 PM (WDjG6)
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"Collaborators" is how *I* would characterize the bulk of the GOP as well.

How many people until recently thought MTG was an ardent conservative.

Seems to me that DC GOP aren't for conserving so much the stability of tradition as whatever is the status quo that they make headway in.

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 03:20 PM (krQz2)

214 If James Carville had sex with a Ferengi, the bastard offspring would probably look something like Mark Kelly.

He is one weird-looking mofo.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 24, 2025 03:20 PM (IG3/x)

215 203 Yes, please nobody go WitchDoktor on us.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 03:21 PM (77rzZ)

216 I drew a face on a hotdog and held it up to the facial recognition camera at the Capitol and the door opened and a computer voice said "welcome Senator Kelly"

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at November 24, 2025 03:21 PM (iNURe)

217 Because she is naive and is not yet accustomed to constant rug-pulling, this autumnal brunette is smiling pleasantly at the prospect of Party men facing consequences:
http://tiny.cc/xxjv001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 24, 2025 03:21 PM (0lawO)

218 I wonder if Hawaiian Judge is feeling less special now. It's like anyone can just any old jurisdiction is good enough.

Posted by: blaster at November 24, 2025 03:21 PM (RoO7G)

219 211 I think the PTB are laying the groundwork for an Op. There's going to be some serious in your face happen where Trump is forced to send in some form of the military and the press is preparing to go hog wild.

Probably CA maybe LA and ICE with Newsome raising hell and trying to look like a leader.
Posted by: pawn at November 24, 2025 03:20 PM (sPsWv)

He will appear with epaulettes and a sash.

Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 03:21 PM (PCK5/)

220 Ya know I was thinking about making snark on going out to dinner on a couples thing with Gabby and Mark, but backed off because that exceeded VDH and Ace cruelty levels.
Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 03:16 PM (PCK5/)


At least she has the excuse of being shot in the head.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 03:22 PM (Zz0t1)

221 I don't want Kelly convicted for treason, I just want him keelhauled and plank walked.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at November 24, 2025 03:22 PM (WFC1M)

222 As odd looking as Kelly is, remember he's has a twin

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 24, 2025 03:22 PM (bfwj/)

223 More importanly, half the judiciary thinks this"

See previous thread...

Posted by: man at November 24, 2025 03:22 PM (XuXeR)

224 I no longer consider the Democrats and media other than a party of criminals and collaborators. I consider GOPe types as collaborators.
Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 03:00 PM (WDjG6)
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The GOP are the "collaborators." The Party itself is not, nor are its members. It can't be. They're the power structure itself.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 24, 2025 03:22 PM (0lawO)

225 I drew a face on a hotdog and held it up to the facial recognition camera at the Capitol and the door opened and a computer voice said "welcome Senator Kelly"
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at November 24, 2025 03:21 PM (iNURe)


LOL!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 03:22 PM (Zz0t1)

226 You might want to consider buying another brand.

Campbell’s Soup Meltdown: VP’s Alleged Rant Torches Customers, Workers, and the Soup

Local 4 News in Detroit broadcast portions of the recording. In it, a speaker identified as Bally is heard saying, "We have s**t for f***king poor people. Who buys our s**t? I don’t buy Campbell’s products barely anymore. It’s not healthy now that I know what the f**‘s in it."

[…]

The recording, which lasted longer than an hour and 15 minutes, included what Garza said was a "disgusting" rant alleged to be made by Bally about his coworkers: "F***ing Indians don’t know a f***ing thing," and "Like they couldn’t think for their f***ing selves," it said in part.

https://tinyurl.com/3bj54zz6

Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2025 03:22 PM (Riz8t)

227 He will appear with epaulettes and a sash.
Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 03:21 PM (PCK5/)
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Okay.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 24, 2025 03:23 PM (0lawO)

228 In other words, service members can't simply say they feel immigration enforcement, for example, is unlawful and walk away, which is precisely what these Democrat lawmakers were trying to incite.

Has this not been the modus operandi of the Democrats, media, and academia (BIRM) since at least Vietnam?

Posted by: t-bird at November 24, 2025 03:23 PM (Lp05i)

229 >>Then arbitrarily pick the text guy.

What the hell did I do?

Posted by: guy who texts a lot at November 24, 2025 03:23 PM (Y1sOo)

230 Kelly graduated from the US Merchant Marine Academy

Posted by: blaster at November 24, 2025 03:24 PM (RoO7G)

231 What the hell did I do?
Posted by: guy who texts a lot at November 24, 2025 03:23 PM (Y1sOo)
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LOL.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 24, 2025 03:24 PM (0lawO)

232 Because she is naive and is not yet accustomed to constant rug-pulling, this autumnal brunette is smiling pleasantly at the prospect of Party men facing consequences:
http://tiny.cc/xxjv001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 24, 2025 03:21 PM (0lawO)
_______

Too clothed and wholesome for a JM Babe. But ... TBWB.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 24, 2025 03:24 PM (iFTx/)

233 230 Kelly graduated from the US Merchant Marine Academy
Posted by: blaster at November 24, 2025 03:24 PM (RoO7G)

That’s - random.

Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 03:24 PM (PCK5/)

234 He will appear with epaulettes and a sash.
Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 03:21 PM (PCK5/)

No capes!

Posted by: Edna Mode at November 24, 2025 03:25 PM (wVcYX)

235 Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2025 03:22 PM (Riz8t)

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Literally everything my mother cooks involved a can of Campbell's soup.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 24, 2025 03:25 PM (DRSnL)

236 Shes a cute gal

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 24, 2025 03:25 PM (bXbFr)

237 what Joe said, @ 202

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 24, 2025 03:25 PM (Cjt/F)

238 Campbell's soup is pretty low end. Did they outsource making the soup to India? Or bring a bunch of H1Bs here?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2025 03:25 PM (sKqQm)

239 *involves

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 24, 2025 03:25 PM (DRSnL)

240 Would've sworn Kelly retired as a Captain, not Commander.

Posted by: guy who texts a lot at November 24, 2025 03:25 PM (Y1sOo)

241 https://x.com/GBNT1952/status/1992786539797991549

Since they seem intent upon continuously using doctrinal propaganda on the US populace, I think it’s important to highlight exactly what Crow and other Members of Congress are really doing.

Rep. Jason Crow’s post is a doctrinal example of narrative escalation within modern IO and psychological warfare doctrine.

Check out FM 3-05.301 / MISO.

By claiming that the President is threatening him with arrest and execution—a statement never actually made by Trump—Crow amplifies and inflates the narrative to its most extreme form in order to shape public perception.

This tactic, often called interpretive maximalism, takes an opponent’s words or actions and stretches them into a dire or existential threat, allowing the speaker to adopt a position of moral heroism while casting the opponent as an authoritarian danger.

When Crow doubles down on this framing, he creates what IO doctrine refers to as a self sealing narrative, where any denial or criticism becomes proof of the alleged threat.

The emotionally loaded language like “upholding my oath,” “standing with our troops,” “disregard for the rule of law,” are designed to trigger

Posted by: SMOD, I grew up in a middle-class constellation at November 24, 2025 03:25 PM (RHGPo)

242 Is this something?

Rasmussen has had Trump approval at 47% for the past 5 days (they take weekend off so really the past 7 days). It got down to 44,45 the previous 2-3 weeks.

So looks like whatever support he’s lost has slowly come back and is holding steady.

Now that the Epstein nonsense is in the review mirror things should start ticking back up above 50-% which is where it was in mid October.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 03:26 PM (HW6XE)

243 /sock

Posted by: one hour sober at November 24, 2025 03:26 PM (Y1sOo)

244 Kelly graduated from the US Merchant Marine Academy

I tell you what, I know everything there is know about seamen. Everything just ask

Posted by: Mark Kelly at November 24, 2025 03:26 PM (sKqQm)

245 He will appear with epaulettes and a sash.
Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 03:21 PM (PCK5/)
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And only those items of clothing.

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 03:27 PM (krQz2)

246 Department of War Mulls Court-Martialing Senator
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Mulling suggests stroking one's chin in contemplation...which is stupid. When one mulls, they should be stroking the top of their head, but no one does because you end up looking like a chimp.

That is, unless, Hegseth is heating, seasoning and steeping the potential case to draw out its aromatic qualities. The DOJ does that a lot. However, they rarely take a sip.

Posted by: Orson at November 24, 2025 03:28 PM (dIske)

247 Basically in the margin of error

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 24, 2025 03:28 PM (bXbFr)

248 Because she is naive and is not yet accustomed to constant rug-pulling, this autumnal brunette is smiling pleasantly at the prospect of Party men facing consequences:
http://tiny.cc/xxjv001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 24, 2025 03:21 PM (0lawO)

That's a great smile.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 03:29 PM (dK+Kv)

249 Coincidentally, I just watched The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell, so I believe I'm now an expert on court martial procedures in the US military.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 03:29 PM (GBKbO)

250 Martin mull

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 24, 2025 03:29 PM (bXbFr)

251 Because she is naive and is not yet accustomed to constant rug-pulling, this autumnal brunette is smiling pleasantly at the prospect of Party men facing consequences:
http://tiny.cc/xxjv001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 24, 2025 03:21 PM (0lawO)

I'm not saying it's AI, but her left thumb looks monumentally weird.

Posted by: far cry at November 24, 2025 03:30 PM (IEmXv)

252 This tactic, often called interpretive maximalism, takes an opponent’s words or actions and stretches them into a dire or existential threat, allowing the speaker to adopt a position of moral heroism while casting the opponent as an authoritarian danger.

Posted by: SMOD, I grew up in a middle-class constellation at November 24, 2025 03:25 PM (RHGPo)
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Then they should have no problem with somebody else calling their propaganda "sedition", because it's the maximal interpretation of what they did.

Let's face it, the Dems did this because "Epstein files" was going to stop working for them pronto.

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 03:30 PM (krQz2)

253 All I know about courts martial is from The Caine Mutiny.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 03:30 PM (77rzZ)

254 Martin mull
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 24, 2025 03:29 PM (bXbFr)


Never liked that guy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 03:30 PM (Zz0t1)

255 but I dearly sympathize with people like her most days. Which is why I'll stop dooming, because with me there's no end to it and I'll just go off the deep end"

Same. Sometimes... ah well. OTOH, I've got a puppy who looks up to me...

Posted by: man at November 24, 2025 03:30 PM (XuXeR)

256 Why bother? The it will get thrown out just like the rest. Bout done with trump.
Posted by: Bob at November 24, 2025 02:43 PM (YiqZD)
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Because you have a short attention span, or because you're part of an op?

Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 03:31 PM (TN0g+)

257 Never liked that guy.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 03:30 PM (Zz0t1)

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You don't like anybody.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 24, 2025 03:31 PM (DRSnL)

258 253 All I know about courts martial is from The Caine Mutiny.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 03:30 PM (77rzZ)

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Friedkin's adaptation of the play, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, his final film (that Guillermo del Toro was present on for insurance reasons, getting Friedkin's coffee, he says) is worthwhile as well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 03:31 PM (GBKbO)

259 Mull of Kintyre

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 03:31 PM (77rzZ)

260
You don't like anybody.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 24, 2025 03:31 PM (DRSnL)


NOT TRUE!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 03:31 PM (Zz0t1)

261 Okay crew here's something to cleanse the taste of the black pill:

http://alturl.com/45i9o

Posted by: blaster at November 24, 2025 03:31 PM (RoO7G)

262 Mulling suggests stroking one's chin in contemplation...which is stupid.

The military takes sedition seriously or it does not. They can't possibly let the troops think otherwise.

Posted by: t-bird at November 24, 2025 03:31 PM (Lp05i)

263 256 Because you have a short attention span, or because you're part of an op?

Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 03:31 PM (TN0g+)

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Trump isn't going to get his vote in 2028, I see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 03:32 PM (GBKbO)

264 254 Martin mull
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 24, 2025 03:29 PM (bXbFr)


Never liked that guy.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 03:30 PM (Zz0t1)

He was good as Gene Parmesan in Arrested Development.

Bit part though it was.

Posted by: XTC at November 24, 2025 03:32 PM (UnA8+)

265 Martin mull
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 24, 2025 03:29 PM (bXbFr)

Never liked that guy.

"Fernwood Tonight" and "History of White People in America" were both hilarious.

Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 03:32 PM (TN0g+)

266 Getting pretty sick of the "benefit of the doubt" types.

Never mind, GOP. It fits.

Posted by: connected and litigious at November 24, 2025 03:32 PM (s9EN2)

267 I like Sponge, and Jordan, but nobody else. Except Fen, And Mannix. but that’s !!

Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 03:33 PM (PCK5/)

268 The recording, which lasted longer than an hour and 15 minutes, included what Garza said was a "disgusting" rant alleged to be made by Bally about his coworkers: "F***ing Indians don’t know a f***ing thing," and "Like they couldn’t think for their f***ing selves," it said in part.

https://tinyurl.com/3bj54zz6
Posted by: Archimedes

The resulting consequence will be an Indian running Campbell's to 1) rectify the intemperate statements and 2) prove the statements correct

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 24, 2025 03:33 PM (Dv3i1)

269 Okay crew here's something to cleanse the taste of the black pill:


Oh you said pill

/Boring

Posted by: Barack Obama at November 24, 2025 03:33 PM (sKqQm)

270 267 I like Sponge, and Jordan, but nobody else. Except Fen, And Mannix. but that’s !!

Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 03:33 PM (PCK5/)

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I'm a misanthrope.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 03:33 PM (GBKbO)

271 as someone who often says "words have meanings" I have to applaud 246, particularly the second paragraph.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 24, 2025 03:33 PM (Cjt/F)

272 Is this Gabby’s husband, or his twin?
Posted by: Bulg
......

She never knows either when they take turns.

Posted by: wth at November 24, 2025 03:34 PM (v0R5T)

273 [pi]I'm a misanthrope.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 03:33 PM (GBKbO)


Is that Swahili for asshole?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 03:34 PM (Zz0t1)

274 Sponge likes me, as long as I keep the monthly payments up.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 03:34 PM (77rzZ)

275 Fernwood Tonight was hilarious because of Fred Willard.

Posted by: one hour sober at November 24, 2025 03:34 PM (Y1sOo)

276 273 [pi]I'm a misanthrope.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 03:33 PM (GBKbO)


Is that Swahili for asshole?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 03:34 PM (Zz0t1)

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Swedish for "like and subscribe".

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 03:34 PM (GBKbO)

277 270 267 I like Sponge, and Jordan, but nobody else. Except Fen, And Mannix. but that’s !!

Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 03:33 PM (PCK5/)

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I'm a misanthrope.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 03:33 PM (GBKbO

Pisces here, but that’s not important.

Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 03:35 PM (PCK5/)

278 One of my favorite memes is the faux He-Man PSA, "There are two kinds of people: avoid them both. Until next time, friends!"

Posted by: SciVo at November 24, 2025 03:35 PM (vQLHf)

279 Martin mull
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 24, 2025 03:29 PM (bXbFr)

Never liked that guy.

"Fernwood Tonight" and "History of White People in America" were both hilarious.
Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 03:32 PM (TN0g+)
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Sax and Violins was a great comedy album.

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 03:35 PM (krQz2)

280 Okay crew here's something to cleanse the taste of the black pill:

http://alturl.com/45i9o

Victoria Principal! Was their some weird episode of Dallas that I missed?

Posted by: t-bird at November 24, 2025 03:35 PM (Lp05i)

281 One of my favorite memes is the faux He-Man PSA, "There are two kinds of people: avoid them both. Until next time, friends!"
Posted by: SciVo at November 24, 2025 03:35 PM (vQLHf)


Skeletor memes > He-Man memes

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 03:36 PM (Zz0t1)

282 I thought her name was Principle.

Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 03:36 PM (PCK5/)

283 Both brothers were astronauts

Posted by: anon2020 at November 24, 2025 03:36 PM (RqMDa)

284 189 >>I'm sure there are plenty of Leftist judges in the military who can preside over his court martial. Sorry, it's getting harder not to be black-pilled at this point.

I don't get that at all. Yea, we've had some setbacks in court decisions but they are almost always overturned. Illegals are being deported, the economy is turning around, wars are ending, and on and on.

We seem to be doing a lot of winning and the left is coming apart at the seams. When AOC is the new leader of your party that's when you get black pilled.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2025 03:12 PM (viF8m)

I do appreciate your general optimism and positive framing of things that look may bad. And I generally try to see it your way. But it feels like we're still losing the long game and much of this is temporary, unless things get very violent. I still try to remain positive or at least patient.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at November 24, 2025 03:36 PM (8hxDK)

285 Some when elected grow in office, cf Fetterman.

Others when elected become warped. cf Mark Kelly, who now looks like an extra from The Hills Have Eyes. He really needs a colander for that mug.

Queeg was a good skipper but the war cracked him. He whipped the Caine into a warship which the junior officers did not like. Jose Ferrer's dressing down of them upon acquittal was beautiful.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 03:37 PM (+k/kq)

286 Fernwood Tonight was hilarious because of Fred Willard.

Posted by: one hour sober at November 24, 2025 03:34 PM (Y1sOo)

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That show would literally have me rolling on the floor in tears of laughter as a kid.

I wonder how it holds up?

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 24, 2025 03:37 PM (wcolm)

287 283 Both brothers were astronauts
Posted by: anon2020 at November 24, 2025 03:36 PM (RqMDa)

But only one was replaced.

Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 03:37 PM (PCK5/)

288 >>@RapidResponse47
·
48s
.
>>@PressSec
: "Everybody knows that James Comey lied to Congress, it's as clear as day — and this judge took an unprecedented action... to shield James Comey and Letitia James from accountability... I know the Department of Justice will be appealing this in very short order."

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2025 03:38 PM (viF8m)

289 Off topic:

Adorable little boy with his dad at a basketball game. I also found it refreshing that the kids father didn't know what to "go viral" meant:

https://tinyurl.com/5ay8ppdn

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 24, 2025 03:38 PM (Nx5jP)

290 Both brothers were astronauts
Posted by: anon2020


These hoomins are a weird looking bunch.

Posted by: Aliens circling the earth at November 24, 2025 03:38 PM (v0R5T)

291 Swedish for "like and subscribe".
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 03:34 PM (GBKbO)

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I have done both. So maybe you can move me up from "dislike" to "tolerate."

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 24, 2025 03:38 PM (DRSnL)

292
He has always creeped me out.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 24, 2025 03:39 PM (3ek7K)

293 291 Swedish for "like and subscribe".
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 03:34 PM (GBKbO)

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I have done both. So maybe you can move me up from "dislike" to "tolerate."

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 24, 2025 03:38 PM (DRSnL)

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Well, I can like you.

We structure comments the same way. This means that we are both smart.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 03:39 PM (GBKbO)

294 *pauses*

Is it me or has Mark Kelly morphed into Jared Loughner?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 03:39 PM (+k/kq)

295 Misanthropus was one of the also-rans on the African savanna. Didn't get along with all the other hominids.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 24, 2025 03:39 PM (gKWVE)

296 285 Bring back Aviation Greens in the Navy!

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 24, 2025 03:40 PM (gm9Sb)

297 295 Misanthropus was one of the also-rans on the African savanna. Didn't get along with all the other hominids.
Posted by: gKWVE at November 24, 2025 03:39 PM (gKWVE)

Hah hah!

Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 03:40 PM (PCK5/)

298 Is it me or has Mark Kelly morphed into Jared Loughner?
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 03:39 PM (+k/kq)


SHAPESHIFTER!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 03:40 PM (Zz0t1)

299 Fred Willard's character in the film, Best in Show, is nothing more than him re-creating the Jerry character on Fernwood Tonight.

Hilarious.

Posted by: one hour sober at November 24, 2025 03:40 PM (Y1sOo)

300 Nood.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 24, 2025 03:40 PM (ExV1e)

301 Is it me or has Mark Kelly morphed into Jared Loughner?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 03:39 PM (+k/kq)

To be fair, I don't know what you look like.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 03:40 PM (dK+Kv)

302 286 Fernwood Tonight was hilarious because of Fred Willard.

Posted by: one hour sober at November 24, 2025 03:34 PM (Y1sOo)

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That show would literally have me rolling on the floor in tears of laughter as a kid.

I wonder how it holds up? - ShainS.

I think it holds up pretty well. check out this scene with the great Jim Varney.

Fernwood Tonight was hilarious because of Fred Willard.

Posted by: one hour sober at November 24, 2025 03:34 PM (Y1sOo)

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That show would literally have me rolling on the floor in tears of laughter as a kid.

https://tinyurl.com/57sesvv8

Posted by: Paco at November 24, 2025 03:41 PM (mADJX)

303
I'd love to see the Department of War bring his twin brother back to active duty, flying old, retired aircraft out of Diego Garcia to test them under conditions common in the Far East. When he continues fundraising for the Ukrainian government while on active duty, court martial him too.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 24, 2025 03:41 PM (y9nCu)

304 Because you have a short attention span, or because you're part of an op?
Posted by: Crusader
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Same troll been posting on other threads under other nics to promote leftist crap. There is a common denominator regarding the troll today and it is easy to spot once you look.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 03:42 PM (WDjG6)

305 "F***ing Indians don’t know a f***ing thing," and "Like they couldn’t think for their f***ing selves," it said in part.


—

Can confirm.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 03:43 PM (HW6XE)

306 We seem to be doing a lot of winning and the left is coming apart at the seams. When AOC is the new leader of your party that's when you get black pilled.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2025 03:12 PM (viF8m)

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Heard someone refer to that one Democrat candidate for Mayor in Nashville who hate your city as the "AOC of Tennessee.

Had a nice ring to it ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 24, 2025 03:43 PM (wcolm)

307 >>Bring back Aviation Greens in the Navy!

Those were re-authorized by SecNav when I was in. Never purchased a set, though.

Posted by: one hour sober at November 24, 2025 03:44 PM (Y1sOo)

308 I'm a misanthrope.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Easy to be one but we all have a chance for salvation from Jesus. Not because we deserve it; because the Lord gives us Grace despite our crooked nature.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 03:44 PM (WDjG6)

309 Jose Ferrer's dressing down of them upon acquittal was beautiful. Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 03:37 PM (+k/kq)

That really was the best part of the play/movie. It occurs in the book, but (spoiler alert) the plot goes on well beyond the court-martial.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at November 24, 2025 03:44 PM (eStot)

310 308 Easy to be one but we all have a chance for salvation from Jesus. Not because we deserve it; because the Lord gives us Grace despite our crooked nature.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 03:44 PM (WDjG6)

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We went back to Charleston for a weekend visit, and I was able to attend mass at the cathedral downtown for the first time in 2 years.

I haven't felt closer to God since I left Rome.

Saw 5 baptisms, confirmations, and first communions as well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 03:45 PM (GBKbO)

311 The emotionally loaded language like “upholding my oath,” “standing with our troops,” “disregard for the rule of law,” are designed to trigger
Posted by: SMOD
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Simply bad rhetoric because there is no truth to any of the assertions, only hyperbole. See Aristotle. Military manuals are not where I would go for wisdom.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 03:47 PM (WDjG6)

312 I remember watching the video and they said disobey "illegal orders", not just "orders."

What legal impact does that have?

Probably renders it not a crime.
Posted by: EFG at November 24, 2025 02:37 PM (vuQMF)

Their statements disguised the obvious intention of having the rank and file military question every order they think/feel MAY be illegal according to each individual's political or moral beliefs. The military doesn't and cannot operate this way AND THESE SHITHEELS KNOW IT.

I don't know about now, but illegal orders were explicitly taught in basic training. Everyone knew what they were before ever being assigned to a unit.

There's no picking and choosing what one feels/thinks is lawful. They should already know.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 24, 2025 03:49 PM (g8Ew8)

313 The proper term is "Vichy Republicans".

Posted by: That dude at November 24, 2025 03:50 PM (Do64S)

314 So not only do we negotiate with terrorists we have many different groups of them on retainer...
Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2025 03:12 PM (sKqQm)

It is like PBS, if the USAID didn't give them money, they would have to have spent more otherwise productive time fundraising.

Posted by: Kindltot - from the land of 125% voter turnout at November 24, 2025 03:51 PM (rbvCR)

315 Color revolution, there is a manual and specific steps to take to create one.

Yup. Mike Benz and others have noted that these statements are along those lines, and that the head of the Army (Driscoll, but not Ed Driscoll) has been publicly cozying up to the Vindmans since this started. So you can already see the outlines of the intended color revolution.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 24, 2025 02:38 PM (2ocoG)

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In that case Driscoll needs to be relieved of his duties.

Posted by: Decaf at November 24, 2025 03:52 PM (unUNN)

316 I would have more reasonable hope in Mark Kelly's conviction than others who are not military/former military than civilians. I hope they do it.

Posted by: Baldy at November 24, 2025 03:57 PM (Src4d)

317 I like Sponge, and Jordan, but nobody else. Except Fen, And Mannix. but that’s !!
Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 03:33 PM (PCK5/)

Back atcha, bud.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 03:59 PM (rbvCR)

318 Hopefully, Trump will help solidify the evidentiary side of things by posting an AI video of Kelley being executed on Truth Social--so far, plunging his malformed mushroom into the middle of jurisprudence is working out swimmingly.

Tish James is shaking in her boots. Comey as well.

We could salvage a midterm rout if someone would take the phone away from that fucking orangutan.

Posted by: Marleys Ghost at November 24, 2025 04:02 PM (uxXx0)

319 Mark Kelly looks like Gollum from Lord of the Rings, I wonder if he say's 'My precious' a lot.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at November 24, 2025 04:12 PM (qZdIZ)

320 Is it true that Mark Kelly is co-starring in the Young Frankenstein remake?

Posted by: Gunslinger at November 24, 2025 04:21 PM (R2gO3)

321 " Is it just possible that the Sedition Video was a PsyOp to draw Trump & Co into another partisan fight to distract them from dealing with the economy and affordability... Issues where the Republicans are vulnerable?"

Worked like a charm. But at least we got an all caps Tweet. Seems to be the MAGA red meat. Phrases like "Let's Go Brandon" and "Lock her up" got us shit electorally, but man, doe WE LOVE AN UNHINGED SHIT TALKER.

Mamdani's talking economy. Trump want to sue the BBC.

Posted by: Marleys Ghost at November 24, 2025 05:20 PM (uxXx0)

322 Gunslinger beat me to it:

"In looking at the attached photograph of Mark Kelly, had no idea that he is using Marty Feldman as a body double."

Posted by: TXMarko at November 24, 2025 06:27 PM (7flhA)

323 Good luck with that, the idiots can't even get Comey you really don't think they are going to get this moron? He only hires the best. Hahahaha.

Posted by: Bob at November 24, 2025 06:49 PM (YiqZD)

324 Elric gets it.

Posted by: torabora at November 24, 2025 11:21 PM (0Hdvv)

325 is about Crow, but it reads the same:

Green Beret Nap Time
@GBNT1952
16h
Since they seem intent upon continuously using doctrinal propaganda on the US populace, I think it’s important to highlight exactly what Crow and other Members of Congress are really doing.

Rep. Jason Crow’s post is a doctrinal example of narrative escalation within modern IO and psychological warfare doctrine.

Check out FM 3-05.301 / MISO.

By claiming that the President is threatening him with arrest and execution—a statement never actually made by Trump—Crow amplifies and inflates the narrative to its most extreme form in order to shape public perception.

This tactic, often called interpretive maximalism, takes an opponent’s words or actions and stretches them into a dire or existential threat, allowing the speaker to adopt a position of moral heroism while casting the opponent as an authoritarian danger.

When Crow doubles down on this framing, he creates what IO doctrine refers to as a self sealing narrative, where any denial or criticism becomes proof of the alleged threat.

Posted by: Kindltot
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Pelosi calls a version of this the "wrap around smear".
She gets moist thinking about it.

Posted by: torabora at November 24, 2025 11:25 PM (0Hdvv)

326 I was in The Marine Corps at one time, I don't know if I ever mentioned. The distinction is really very easy.

"You are to attack this village that is filled with terrorists according to all intel, and we are to secure our rear as we progress forward without concern of being hit from the rear."

"BUT SIR! If you deserve that title, I happen to know for my own self having never read anything that you are telling me that there are civilians in there and NO terrorists and you are asking us to commit a war crime!!! I have spoken and will not obey."

Court-martial, and maybe on severity Mutiny, so summary death. (not happening in the modern day, people still think David French and Pete Buttigieg are warriors.)

"I need you to shoot this particular person in the head that we have captured, subdued and is at current no threat to our operation right now."

"Uh, that's a bit much sir, get someone else."

A write up, and later a trial, likely removed from service after a court-martial when the moral disagreement is adjudicated. Meanwhile the officer will turn to someone else. . .Like. . . I don't know, ME, and they will just drop two to drop one.

The second can be argued for

Posted by: wickedpinto at November 25, 2025 02:05 AM (j0s2W)

327 for immediacy, the first is clearly outside of the purview of the individual receiving the order, which makes it illegal. If after the fact there is a regret, there are a lot of pathways once your "gut" may have proven true, it doesn't allow you to deny at that moment, to refuse to engage in a tactical or strategic action.

If you are told to engage in a summary execution, which is very lawful against terrorists and pirates and has been for more than 400 years, but you don't trust the order, THEN you CAN argue, due to the immediacy of a singular specific action. Like killing someone point blank.

Posted by: wickedpinto at November 25, 2025 02:08 AM (j0s2W)

Breaking: Clinton Judge Dismisses Indictments of Both James Comey and "Big Tish" James, Claiming the US Attorney Prosecuting Them Was Unlawfully Installed

Of course.

A federal judge on Monday dismissed the criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, concluding that the prosecutor who brought the charges at President Donald Trump's urging was illegally appointed by the Justice Department.

The rulings from U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie halt at least for now a pair of prosecutions that had hastened concerns that the Justice Department was being weaponized to pursue the president's political adversaries and amount to a stunning rebuke of the Trump administration's legal maneuvering to install a loyal, and inexperienced, prosecutor willing to file the cases.

The orders make Lindsey Halligan the latest Trump administration prosecutor to be disqualified because of the manner in which they were appointed. Both defendants had asked for the cases to be dismissed with prejudice, meaning that the Justice Department would not be able to bring them again. But the judge instead dismissed them without prejudice, though it was not immediately clear if or how the Justice Department might attempt to revive the prosecutions.

Quick note: When a Republican-appointed judge rules against Trump, the media always points out he's a "Bush appointee" or "Trump appointee" (as just happened in the Texas redistricting case).

When it's a left-wing judge appointed by a Democrat, the media suddenly forgets how to use Google.

The indictments can be refiled, this leftwing judge grants, with a new prosecutor -- but the statute of limitations on James Comey has, oopsie!, already ran.

Kaelan Deese
@KaelanDC

BREAKING 🚨: A judge ruled that Trump’s pick Lindsey Halligan was "illegally appointed" as U.S. attorney and tossed the Comey and James cases. The dismissals are "without prejudice," meaning they could technically be refiled -- though Comey's attorneys say the statute of limitations has already run.

Posted by: Ace at 01:20 PM




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1 Of course.


Needs to be yeeted into the sun.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 24, 2025 01:20 PM (W2Pud)

2 Are there any judges who aren't left wing?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 24, 2025 01:20 PM (ix8EF)

3 Are there any judges who aren't left wing?

After the deep state goes through their computers not many...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2025 01:21 PM (sKqQm)

4 Shall I breathlessly wait for Tish James to quote some more of the Bible proving how innocent she is?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 24, 2025 01:22 PM (ix8EF)

5 Uhmm, other than a SC, how is a prosecutor invalidly installed?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 24, 2025 01:22 PM (XV/Pl)

6 The time for Hard Men is upon us.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at November 24, 2025 01:22 PM (BQn15)

7 5 - by agreeing to prosecute Democrats

Posted by: RandomDave at November 24, 2025 01:23 PM (aJQbY)

8 They keep playing these stupid games and assuming that the end result will always involve them still being able to continue making money playing stupid games in the future.

But a court system only exists to manage a society efficiently, predictably and non-violently. When it becomes inefficient, unpredictable and actively shields the violent while hounding the law-abiding, its days are numbered. There's no reason not to prefer the neighborhood lynch mob. They are at least efficient (so they check one out of three boxes).

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 24, 2025 01:23 PM (Dg7ng)

9 FenelonSpoke - no, we need you to not die from anoxia.

Posted by: RandomDave at November 24, 2025 01:23 PM (aJQbY)

10 Guilty as Sin, free as a bird. A nation of Judges, we are.

Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 01:23 PM (PCK5/)

11 MTG’s retirement will be 1% per year, X 5 years, X average of her high three salary, or $8700/year.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at November 24, 2025 01:24 PM (NBcgk)

12 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 01:24 PM (Zz0t1)

13 The indictments can be refiled, this leftwing judge grants, with a new prosecutor -- but the statute of limitations on James Comey has, oopsie!, already ran.

How convenient

Posted by: It's me donna at November 24, 2025 01:24 PM (VE6XX)

14 This is exactly what causes decent, law abiding people to lose all respect for the law.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at November 24, 2025 01:24 PM (BQn15)

15 NEW: A federal judge has dismissed both indictments against Tish James and Jim Comey after determining Lindsey Halligan's appointment is unlawful. Unbelievable.
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LOL.

Are we on different planets? Because "unbelievable" is a word I would *not* use to describe this. Not for any reason.

"Predictable" or "typical" or "expected" or "routine" come much more immediately to mind.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 24, 2025 01:24 PM (0lawO)

16 11 MTG’s retirement will be 1% per year, X 5 years, X average of her high three salary, or $8700/year.
Posted by: Hawkpilot at November 24, 2025 01:24 PM (NBcgk)

She’ll be all right.

Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 01:25 PM (PCK5/)

17 *rage stroke commences* 🤬🤬

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 24, 2025 01:25 PM (4tmpE)

18 Old and busted: No one is above the law.

New and cool: Let's party!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 24, 2025 01:26 PM (L/fGl)

19 Put his ass in front of Congress again.

Posted by: Reforger at November 24, 2025 01:26 PM (+Rs+1)

20 Been there , done that.

Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 01:26 PM (g47mK)

21 Blondi's a weak idiot; even though Trump publicly demanded she indict the traitor Comey ASAP -- she should have pushed back and wrapped the Comey case in with the Florida Conspiracy case, where we've got at least half a chance of getting convictions.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 24, 2025 01:26 PM (GPNSy)

22 Are there any judges who aren't left wing?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 24, 2025 01:20 PM (ix8EF)


There is no such thing as a conservative or liberal judge. There are only judges.

Posted by: Chief Justice John Roberts at November 24, 2025 01:26 PM (Zz0t1)

23 20 Been there , done that.
Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 01:26 PM (g47mK)

Deja vu, oui??

Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 01:27 PM (PCK5/)

24 "The indictments can be refiled, this leftwing judge grants, with a new prosecutor -- but the statute of limitations on James Comey has, oopsie!, already ran."

I'm not sure that's how it works. At least in the civil world, if you file a claim within the statute of limitations, and the claim later gets dismissed (for whatever reason), you can refile the claim regards if the SoL has run out in the meantime.

I expect that's the same rule in criminal cases.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 24, 2025 01:27 PM (iFTx/)

25 18 Old and busted: No one is above the law.

New and cool: Let's party!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 24, 2025 01:26 PM (L/fGl)

Amend that to "No one is above the law if you aren't a democrat," and you could engrave that on a DC building forevermore.

Posted by: moki at November 24, 2025 01:27 PM (wLjpr)

26 15 True, but there's a subset of Conservatives who enjoy getting wound up about things. They don't intend to DO anything about them (and if you point out that our ancestors launched a rebellion against their monarch for far less they call you a FED), but there's something so satisfying about bitching for a while (and then they're off to babble about the steak they are marinating for dinner or whatever).

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 24, 2025 01:27 PM (Dg7ng)

27 Clinton judge.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2025 01:28 PM (Riz8t)

28 Can the Attorney General summarily execute, errr, fire judges, with or without cause?

Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 01:28 PM (PCK5/)

29 Quick note: When a Republican-appointed judge rules against Trump, the media always points out he's a "Bush appointee" or "Trump appointee" (as just happened in the Texas redistricting case).

When it's a left-wing judge appointed by a Democrat, the media suddenly forgets how to use Google.
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Sigh.

Let's do this again, I guess. For the slow learners at the back.

When one party is generally lawful and another is generally lawless, it is noteworthy - and therefore newsworthy - when a member or beneficiary of the generally lawless party rules in accordance with the law. It is unexpected, given the culture of lawlessness. When a member or beneficiary of the generally lawful party rules in accordance with the law, it is completely ordinary and therefore neither notable nor newsworthy.

While I actually concur with the host's assessment and believe that lawful and sensible judges *should* have their party affiliations noted, I concur for opposite reasons. Good behavior, lawful practices, sensible activities and consistent, legal opinions *should* reflect well on the generally lawful party. Only the fact that such things are routine and ordinary makes them not "newsworthy."

Posted by: Your Kid's Journalism Professor at November 24, 2025 01:28 PM (0lawO)

30 There is no such thing as a conservative or liberal judge. There are only judges.

Posted by: Chief Justice John Roberts

Huh. I thought there was only Zuul.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2025 01:28 PM (Riz8t)

31 In a way this is better than having a prejudiced judge hear the whole case and bounce it after. Now the appointment can be confirmed by SCOTUS or Congress, and the case can be taken away from the first judge. So...

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 24, 2025 01:28 PM (mlg/3)

32 >>I expect that's the same rule in criminal cases.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 24, 2025 01:27 PM (iFTx/)
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"Relation back" applies in criminal cases.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at November 24, 2025 01:28 PM (bNf8H)

33 I fought the law and the law didnt win.

Posted by: Tall, amoral, narcissist, with drama issues at November 24, 2025 01:29 PM (4C4f2)

34 16 11 MTG’s retirement will be 1% per year, X 5 years, X average of her high three salary, or $8700/year.
Posted by: Hawkpilot at November 24, 2025 01:24 PM (NBcgk)

She’ll be all right.


Oh, she’ll be more than alright. She’ll be rich, and probably already is. But not because of that pension, which she can draw when she is 62.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at November 24, 2025 01:29 PM (NBcgk)

35 Deja vu, oui??
Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 01:27 PM (PCK5/)




Tout recommence!

Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 01:29 PM (g47mK)

36 There is no such thing as a conservative or liberal judge. There are only judges.

Posted by: Chief Justice John Roberts

Huh. I thought there was only Zuul.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2025 01:28 PM (Riz8t)

*checks fridge* Okay so far.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 24, 2025 01:30 PM (wVcYX)

37 "Greene’s financial journey is as unconventional as her political career. Since joining Congress in 2021, her net worth has skyrocketed, jumping from around $700,000 to as much as $25 million. As of October 2025, Marjorie Taylor Greene’s estimated net worth is approximately $25 million, which marks a significant increase from before she took office."

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2025 01:30 PM (sKqQm)

38 concerns that the Justice Department was being weaponized

Oh, NOW they're concerned.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 24, 2025 01:31 PM (DRSnL)

39 To me belongeth vengeance and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.

Posted by: Lord Comey at November 24, 2025 01:31 PM (WFC1M)

40 Oh, she’ll be more than alright. She’ll be rich, and probably already is. But not because of that pension, which she can draw when she is 62.
Posted by: Hawkpilot at November 24, 2025 01:29 PM (NBcgk)


And doesn't she get to keep her taxpayer funded health insurance for life?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 01:31 PM (Zz0t1)

41 It is going to be really hard to succeed when we have the country under siege from the progs on one side, the neocons on the other and the IC punting down the middle

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 01:31 PM (rbvCR)

42
Tremblingly I ask... is this reversible?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 24, 2025 01:32 PM (RfDQK)

43 35 Deja vu, oui??
Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 01:27 PM (PCK5/)




Tout recommence!
Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 01:29 PM (g47mK)

35 Deja vu, oui??
Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 01:27 PM (PCK5/)




Tout recommence!
Posted by: runner at

À la recherche du temps perdu!!

Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 01:32 PM (PCK5/)

44 39 Thanks M'lord. Can you read the bit next about dogs lapping up your blood in the street? I like that part.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 24, 2025 01:32 PM (Dg7ng)

45 I expect that's the same rule in criminal cases.
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Defective. So failed to timely commence?? Cant be refiled then??? Refiling doesnt relate back to anything???

I'll get my lawyers on it.

Posted by: Tall, amoral, narcissist, with drama issues at November 24, 2025 01:32 PM (4C4f2)

46 Nobody expected anything else.

The only thing illegal in DC is to not be a Demoncrat.

Posted by: XTC at November 24, 2025 01:33 PM (UnA8+)

47
Huh. I thought there was only Zuul.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2025 01:28 PM (Riz8t)

Landru or die!

Posted by: Beto Ochoa at November 24, 2025 01:33 PM (dzZCL)

48 "Greene’s financial journey is as unconventional as her political career. Since joining Congress in 2021, her net worth has skyrocketed, jumping from around $700,000 to as much as $25 million. As of October 2025, Marjorie Taylor Greene’s estimated net worth is approximately $25 million, which marks a significant increase from before she took office."
Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2025 01:30 PM (sKqQm)
_____

She was a rich kid. I think the yuge bump in net worth is the result of her getting a stake in one of the family companies. IIRC. That doesn't mean she's not a corrupt grifter, but she didn't corruptly grift to the tune of $25M.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 24, 2025 01:33 PM (iFTx/)

49 37 "Greene’s financial journey is as unconventional as her political career. Since joining Congress in 2021, her net worth has skyrocketed, jumping from around $700,000 to as much as $25 million. As of October 2025, Marjorie Taylor Greene’s estimated net worth is approximately $25 million, which marks a significant increase from before she took office."

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2025 01:30 PM (sKqQm)

=====

She didn't get rich through insider trading or anything, but a split of ownership of the company she owned with her ex-husband.

A construction company.

Also, she said that Trump shouldn't be so ardent in getting illegal workers. This was purely a moment of purity of heart and principles on her part and had nothing to do with her company probably using illegal labor.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 01:33 PM (GBKbO)

50 41 It is going to be really hard to succeed when we have the country under siege from the progs on one side, the neocons on the other and the IC punting down the middle
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Depends what you are trying to succeed at.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 24, 2025 01:33 PM (Dg7ng)

51 If were going to get all Biblical, I thought this was interesting. Five minute video on the Five Types of People You're Not Supposed to Help.

https://is.gd/NxUid0

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 24, 2025 01:33 PM (L/fGl)

52 To me belongeth vengeance and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
Posted by: Lord Comey at November 24, 2025 01:31 PM (WFC1M)

Get a load of Temu Vigo the Carpathian.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 24, 2025 01:33 PM (wVcYX)

53 James Comey case dismissed. Activist judge said Lindsey Halligan was invalidly appointed.

Two-tiered justice strikes again.

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Judges should have zero role in a Unitary Executive function like this.

Stay in your own f*cking lane, unconstitutional assholes! SCOTUS better bitch-slap this yet another rogue US District Clown Judge Bitch -- good, hard, & plenty ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 24, 2025 01:34 PM (GPNSy)

54 The rulings from U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie halt at least for now a pair of prosecutions that had hastened concerns that the Justice Department was being weaponized to pursue the president's political adversaries and amount to a stunning rebuke of the Trump administration's legal maneuvering to install a loyal, and inexperienced, prosecutor willing to file the cases.
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:: fires up translator ::

"We will not permit our weaponized institutions to be turned on us for any reason, regardless of legitimacy. When you took office we were forced to give you the gun, but we took out the firing pin first. You will NEVER use our weapons against us. We stole them fair and square and they are to ever and always be pointed and fired at YOU. Fuck you."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 24, 2025 01:34 PM (0lawO)

55
Tout recommence!
Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 01:29 PM (g47mK)



You asked for it..........


https://youtu.be/aU-dKoFZT0A

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 01:34 PM (Zz0t1)

56 >>The indictments can be refiled, this leftwing judge grants, with a new prosecutor -- but the statute of limitations on James Comey has, oopsie!, already ran.

>>How convenient

Not if he's charged as part of an ongoing conspiracy.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2025 01:34 PM (viF8m)

57 It is going to be really hard to succeed when we have the country under siege from the progs on one side, the neocons on the other and the IC punting down the middle
Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 01:31 PM (rbvCR)
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The IC does *nothing* in any "middle."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 24, 2025 01:34 PM (0lawO)

58 Are there any judges who aren't left wing?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 24, 2025 01:20 PM (ix8EF

In short - very, very few. You have to be a bone-deep Statist to become a judge in the first place, and at the federal level, the bench is so ripe for abuse that it takes a very strong moral bearing to resist the urge to let that Statist freak flag fly at full, turgid staff.

These positions heve evolved for authoritarian megalomaniacs and basically nobody else.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 01:34 PM (BI5O2)

59 46 Nobody expected anything else.

The only thing illegal in DC is to not be a Demoncrat.
Posted by: XTC at November 24, 2025 01:33 PM (UnA8+)

This "judge" made it clear she was gonna toss these cases... Spent her time basically insulting the Prosecutor's intelligence and validity...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 24, 2025 01:34 PM (VE6XX)

60 U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie"

"Karen"

Posted by: man at November 24, 2025 01:34 PM (XuXeR)

61 Again, how is a prosecutor unlawfully installed?

There was an investigation, there was a GJ, the grand jury handed down indictments, a prosecutor was selected to prosecute the case.

What am I missing?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 24, 2025 01:34 PM (XV/Pl)

62 Greene’s financial journey is as unconventional as her political career. Since joining Congress in 2021, her net worth has skyrocketed, jumping from around $700,000 to as much as $25 million. As of October 2025, Marjorie Taylor Greene’s estimated net worth is approximately $25 million, which marks a significant increase from before she took office.


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She saved carefully and invested wisely , h8r!! She is America First and Only , stop smearing her !

Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 01:34 PM (g47mK)

63 Meanwhile, AG Jay Jones is A OK!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 24, 2025 01:35 PM (L/fGl)

64
Both of them need to be in prison.

We the people , the sane ones, have spoken.

Also, aholes gonna be aholes.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 24, 2025 01:35 PM (3ek7K)

65 ... though Comey's attorneys say the statute of limitations has already run.

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Yet ANOTHER reason his indictment should have been folded into the Florida Conspiracy prosecutions.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 24, 2025 01:35 PM (GPNSy)

66 In short - very, very few. You have to be a bone-deep Statist to become a judge in the first place, and at the federal level, the bench is so ripe for abuse that it takes a very strong moral bearing to resist the urge to let that Statist freak flag fly at full, turgid staff.

These positions heve evolved for authoritarian megalomaniacs and basically nobody else.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 01:34 PM (BI5O2)
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You can name every Supreme Court justice who came in at "tolerable" or better comfortably and not even need your toes to keep track of them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 24, 2025 01:35 PM (0lawO)

67 One day, my first attempt at a render of a video will go off without a hitch.

But today is not that day.

Today, I fight with Davinci Resolve and YouTube!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 01:35 PM (GBKbO)

68 And so it begins.

Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at November 24, 2025 01:36 PM (0cOaq)

69 What am I missing?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 24, 2025 01:34 PM (XV/Pl)
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You're missing who's in charge.

It's the Party. Not law, not convention, not custom, not the president. The Party. Yesterday, today and tomorrow.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 24, 2025 01:36 PM (0lawO)

70 She was a rich kid. I think the yuge bump in net worth is the result of her getting a stake in one of the family companies. IIRC. That doesn't mean she's not a corrupt grifter, but she didn't corruptly grift to the tune of $25M.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 24, 2025 01:33 PM (iFTx/)

Why does America First and Only vacation (and is rumored to own a million dollar property) in Costa Rica ?

Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 01:36 PM (g47mK)

71 All hail Federal Judges!!!!!!

All high and most holy Federal Judges!!!!!


Bow before us the mighty rulers of all!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Federal Judge at November 24, 2025 01:36 PM (jGJov)

72 From last thread:

Killing all those people in Gaza is just a blood sacrifice for God's chosen people.

What do Presbyterians have to do with this?

Posted by: Guess it was foreordained at November 24, 2025 01:37 PM (TbWk/)

73
61 Again, how is a prosecutor unlawfully installed?

There was an investigation, there was a GJ, the grand jury handed down indictments, a prosecutor was selected to prosecute the case.

What am I missing?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 24, 2025 01:34 PM (XV/Pl)

======

She's a temporary appointee outside the 120 day window statute has described as the proper limits of temporary appointments for USAs.

This statute is likely in violation of the president's appointment powers. He either gets temporary appointments until the Senate acts, or the post is empty until the Senate acts.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 01:37 PM (GBKbO)

74 67 - Having any success with views? I know YouTubers who tell me it's much harder now than it was a few years ago.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 24, 2025 01:37 PM (Dg7ng)

75 marchan, the judge in the nyc trump bookkeeping case, has a daughter who works for a dem fundraising org, but he refused to recuse himself because of course

Posted by: gnats local 678 at November 24, 2025 01:37 PM (CWTWj)

76 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 24, 2025 01:33 PM (L/fGl

Thanks. I thought that was a good video.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 24, 2025 01:37 PM (lQ+/f)

77 Smoky Mountains is good enough for some!

Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 01:37 PM (g47mK)

78 The orders make Lindsey Halligan the latest Trump administration prosecutor to be disqualified because of the manner in which they were appointed"

So we've entered the "nanny nanny boo boo you can't do that" phase of banana republic? Good to know.

Posted by: man at November 24, 2025 01:37 PM (XuXeR)

79 69 What am I missing?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 24, 2025 01:34 PM (XV/Pl)
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You're missing who's in charge.

It's the Party. Not law, not convention, not custom, not the president. The Party. Yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 24, 2025 01:36 PM (0lawO)


Everything for the State, Nothing against the State. Funny, it seems to work here too!!

Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 01:37 PM (PCK5/)

80 *rage stroke commences* 🤬🤬
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 24, 2025 01:25 PM (4tmpE)

Not sure if you've been around and I've just missed you, but it's good to see you commenting. I hope you are doing well.

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2025 01:37 PM (Ltmlv)

81 And doesn't she get to keep her taxpayer funded health insurance for life?


No. You only get to continue with FEHB healthcare if you qualify for an immediate annuity(like me, oink oink). She does not. She can keep her healthcare for 18 months, but has to pay the whole premium.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at November 24, 2025 01:37 PM (NBcgk)

82 She saved carefully and invested wisely , h8r!! She is America First and Only , stop smearing her !

Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 01:34 PM (g47mK)

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She merely invested in cattle futures with Hillary and Nanzi's Congressional-Only Hedge Fund.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 24, 2025 01:38 PM (GPNSy)

83 >>Yet ANOTHER reason his indictment should have been folded into the Florida Conspiracy prosecutions.

Seems likely that he will be charged in Florida.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2025 01:38 PM (viF8m)

84 Everything for the State, Nothing against the State. Funny, it seems to work here too!!
Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 01:37 PM (PCK5/)
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Don't forget the most important part: nothing outside the State.

And yeah. Fascism is fascism.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 24, 2025 01:38 PM (0lawO)

85 Waited so long to indict Comey?

Whoops!

Whoopsie!

Posted by: AG Pam Blondi at November 24, 2025 01:38 PM (vuQMF)

86 Why does America First and Only vacation (and is rumored to own a million dollar property) in Costa Rica ?
Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 01:36 PM (g47mK)

Cheap, tropical, picturesque, and superb coffee.

Posted by: Good surfing too, I've heard at November 24, 2025 01:38 PM (TbWk/)

87 Yet arresting grandmothers for standing outside the capitol on J6 is totally cromulent.

I don't really think you can use two-tier justice as a descriptor anymore. It should be no justice and persecution.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 24, 2025 01:39 PM (n5tGW)

88 73

She's a temporary appointee outside the 120 day window statute has described as the proper limits of temporary appointments for USAs.

This statute is likely in violation of the president's appointment powers. He either gets temporary appointments until the Senate acts, or the post is empty until the Senate acts.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 01:37 PM (GBKbO)

So, she was in position by a screwup then??

Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 01:39 PM (PCK5/)

89 I told you so.

Posted by: MTG's Small Erection at November 24, 2025 01:39 PM (abIsI)

90 Deja vu, oui??
Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 01:27 PM (PCK5/)

Tout recommence!
Posted by: runner at

À la recherche du temps perdu!!
Posted by: tubal

Merde!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 24, 2025 01:39 PM (L/fGl)

91 "Davinci Resolve" Botero Fattener. Calder Mobilator. Dali Smash.

Posted by: gp at November 24, 2025 01:39 PM (4kcNT)

92 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at November 24, 2025 01:39 PM (QwTID)

93 This is so amazingly frustrating.

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2025 01:40 PM (pZEOD)

94 @73

>>She's a temporary appointee outside the 120 day window statute has described as the proper limits of temporary appointments for USAs.

Then the question is, why was a temporary appointee selected to prosecute this case?

Where all of the other prosecutors busy f***ing interns?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 24, 2025 01:40 PM (XV/Pl)

95 Is this judge related to Betty Currie?

Posted by: MikeN at November 24, 2025 01:41 PM (HVZOH)

96 wait, what ?? it is all a MASSIVE ASTROTURF CAMPAIGN ??!!

"BREAKING: The founder of “Track AIPAC” — the group smearing pro-Israel U.S. politicians as “foreign agents” — is a self-proclaimed Marxist living in Germany.

She’s lived in Kuwait, the Philippines, and now Germany, all while volunteering with various U.S. left-wing groups."

Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 01:41 PM (g47mK)

97 Yet arresting grandmothers for standing outside the capitol on J6 is totally cromulent.

Breaking their arms while screaming "STOP RESISTING" is just icing on the authoritarian cake.

Posted by: Yeah we're HEROES! High fives all around! at November 24, 2025 01:41 PM (TbWk/)

98 88 No, she's in that position because the Senate (and Congress as a whole) can't do its job. This has been a problem for decades, so Congress for 115 years has handed power over to the Executive to do its job for it. But now the Executive can't use those grants of power because the Executive is Orange Man.

It's a Gordian Knot, and the Uniparty hasn't figured out that they can't untie/cut it without destroying their own power.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 24, 2025 01:41 PM (Dg7ng)

99 85 Waited so long to indict Comey?

Whoops!

Whoopsie!
Posted by: AG Pam Blondi[/i

It's okay Pammy, DOJ'ng is hard.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 24, 2025 01:42 PM (abIsI)

100 Deja vu, oui??
Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 01:27 PM (PCK5/)

Tout recommence!
Posted by: runner at

À la recherche du temps perdu!!
Posted by: tubal

Merde!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 24, 2025 01:39 PM (L/fGl)
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Quand on l'attaque, il se defend.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 24, 2025 01:42 PM (0cOaq)

101 Where all of the other prosecutors busy f***ing interns?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 24, 2025 01:40 PM (XV/Pl)

And the American people in general. But mostly the American people.

Posted by: In keeping with a meme at November 24, 2025 01:42 PM (TbWk/)

102 >>Then the question is, why was a temporary appointee selected to prosecute this case?

Three of them including the US Attorney from the EDVA office were fired or forced to resign because they refused to bring charges.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2025 01:42 PM (viF8m)

103 Again, how is a prosecutor unlawfully installed?

There was an investigation, there was a GJ, the grand jury handed down indictments, a prosecutor was selected to prosecute the case.

What am I missing?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 24, 2025 01:34 PM (XV/Pl)
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The technicalities of interim prosecutor appointments. Because Congress isn't doing its job, Trump has relied on interim appointments for a lot of his prosecutors. Halligan was hastily appointed just days after the earlier interim appointment's term ended.

Even the DOJ acknowledged this may have been a "paperwork error."

This is not the way things are supposed to work. Which means the "rules" governing them are gonna be easily bent by activist judges.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 24, 2025 01:42 PM (iFTx/)

104 Where all of the other prosecutors busy f***ing interns?
===
This makes you sound jealous.

Posted by: Slick Willie at November 24, 2025 01:43 PM (4C4f2)

105 We need to stop calling this "two-tiered". It's not, and it allows them to point to some peon or some excommunicated big-wig who gets prosecuted on their side to say "look, see, we hold people accountable too." In reality, this is "one-sided" justice. You only get hammered if you are on our side, not theirs. It doesn't matter what social tier you occupy. You can be a dirt poor J-6 grandmother, or Trump himself. Conversely, on the other side, you can get away with literal murder regardless of social standing. It's not two-tiered, it's one-sided.

Posted by: DPICM at November 24, 2025 01:43 PM (zweKz)

106 Kuwait...hmmm, who got kicked out of Kuwait in recent memory?? Ah , YES! so called palestenians. Hundreds of thousands of them. Which is NOT displacement, genocide, and ethnic cleansing if it done by Muslims and Arabs , right?

Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 01:43 PM (g47mK)

107 What was that article you posted last week ace?

Anarcho-tyranny?

We're soaking in it.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 24, 2025 01:43 PM (ajCaF)

108 À la recherche du temps perdu!!
Posted by: tubal

Merde!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 24, 2025 01:39 PM (L/fGl)
------------
Quand on l'attaque, il se defend.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 24, 2025 01:42 PM (0cOaq)


Mange....le poopoo!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 01:43 PM (Zz0t1)

109 94
99

I think that all of the career DOJ people refuse to do their jobs. So you have to bring in somebody else to do something other than harass parents going to trans-loving school board meetings. I have no idea what Bondi should or should not have done differently, and more importantly neither does anyone else.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 24, 2025 01:44 PM (Dg7ng)

110 Then the question is, why was a temporary appointee selected to prosecute this case?"

Well, the previous vacated mid September (iirc), so a temp can be named for 120 days, as that's plenty of time for a more permanent replacement...

*looks at calendar. Mid sept to now...how many days?*

Posted by: man at November 24, 2025 01:44 PM (XuXeR)

111 At least they were polite and fucking interns, instead of all at once.

Posted by: So well-mannered and orderly! at November 24, 2025 01:44 PM (TbWk/)

112 Melodrama Kabuki theater. The show that never ends.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 24, 2025 01:45 PM (wVcYX)

113 @103

>> The technicalities of interim prosecutor appointments.

Again, the DOJ has thousands of prosecutors, they prosecute cases everyday, you’re telling me there are no “properly” installed prosecutors that could have been assigned the case?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 24, 2025 01:45 PM (XV/Pl)

114 I pointed out last thread that this judge is a Clinton appointment with senior status. A lot of the anti Trump administration decisions are from senior judges. Get rid of that status now

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 24, 2025 01:45 PM (bfwj/)

115 DOJ’s New Court Filing Reveals “Damning” Evidence Against Letitia James

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Tee hee!
- Judge Queen Cameron McGowan Currie

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 24, 2025 01:46 PM (L/fGl)

116 I pointed out last thread that this judge is a Clinton appointment with senior status. A lot of the anti Trump administration decisions are from senior judges. Get rid of that status now


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+1

Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 01:46 PM (g47mK)

117 114 I pointed out last thread that this judge is a Clinton appointment with senior status. A lot of the anti Trump administration decisions are from senior judges. Get rid of that status now
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 24, 2025 01:45 PM (bfwj/)

Do Senior Judges get to haze Freshman Judges?

Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 01:46 PM (PCK5/)

118 Why does America First and Only vacation (and is rumored to own a million dollar property) in Costa Rica ?
Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 01

Vacationing in Costa Rica is questionable?

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2025 01:46 PM (pZEOD)

119 Prediction: Final straw for Pam Bondi. Gone by EOY.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 24, 2025 01:47 PM (abIsI)

120 "Because I said so," she argued.

Posted by: red speck at November 24, 2025 01:47 PM (Ve/HL)

121 you’re telling me there are no “properly” installed prosecutors that could have been assigned the case?"

Yep.

/ U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie

Posted by: man at November 24, 2025 01:47 PM (XuXeR)

122 114 That's actually a good point. How can a judge retire, have a replacement lawfully succeeded them via Senate confirmation, and still do anything after that? It's utterly bizarre, and it's now another way for some fossil who does 1-2 cases a year to just "randomly" get assigned a major case their AWFL neighbors don't like.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 24, 2025 01:47 PM (Dg7ng)

123 I pointed out last thread that this judge is a Clinton appointment with senior status. A lot of the anti Trump administration decisions are from senior judges. Get rid of that status now


Senior status should at most get you a discount coffee at McDonalds and your mailbox flooded with AARP junk mail.

Posted by: And no pickleball, you aging hooligans at November 24, 2025 01:47 PM (TbWk/)

124 113 @103

>> The technicalities of interim prosecutor appointments.

Again, the DOJ has thousands of prosecutors, they prosecute cases everyday, you’re telling me there are no “properly” installed prosecutors that could have been assigned the case?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 24, 2025 01:45 PM (XV/Pl)

======

Are there thousands in the office where the charges have to be filed?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 01:47 PM (GBKbO)

125 The judge has to be punished if Comey walks because of this. And she has to be punished severely.

Find a way to do it.

That is what the left does.

Posted by: Thatch at November 24, 2025 01:47 PM (bbi0+)

126 What could Pam Bondi do about this specific ruling? Serious question.

Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 01:47 PM (PCK5/)

127 >> The technicalities of interim prosecutor appointments.

Again, the DOJ has thousands of prosecutors, they prosecute cases everyday, you’re telling me there are no “properly” installed prosecutors that could have been assigned the case?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 24, 2025 01:45 PM (XV/Pl)
_____

The other AUSAs in the district refused to indict. So Trump removed or fired them. Halligan was a desperation move to get the indictment in before the SoL expired.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 24, 2025 01:47 PM (iFTx/)

128 105 We need to stop calling this "two-tiered". It's not, and it allows them to point to some peon or some excommunicated big-wig who gets prosecuted on their side to say "look, see, we hold people accountable too." In reality, this is "one-sided" justice. You only get hammered if you are on our side, not theirs. It doesn't matter what social tier you occupy. You can be a dirt poor J-6 grandmother, or Trump himself. Conversely, on the other side, you can get away with literal murder regardless of social standing. It's not two-tiered, it's one-sided.
Posted by: DPICM at November 24, 2025 01:43 PM (zweKz)

******

Son of a b**ch!

Posted by: Fugees lead singer getting sentenced to 14 years for illegal Obama campaign money contributions... at November 24, 2025 01:48 PM (vuQMF)

129 114 I pointed out last thread that this judge is a Clinton appointment with senior status. A lot of the anti Trump administration decisions are from senior judges. Get rid of that status now
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 24, 2025 01:45 PM (bfwj/)

Do Senior Judges get to haze Freshman Judges?
Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 01:46 PM (PCK5/)

Yes. The Freshman Judges have to clean the private bathrooms in the chambers of the Senior Judges.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 24, 2025 01:48 PM (wVcYX)

130 What could Pam Bondi do about this specific ruling? Serious question"

Not much.

Posted by: man at November 24, 2025 01:49 PM (XuXeR)

131 118 Why does America First and Only vacation (and is rumored to own a million dollar property) in Costa Rica ?
Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 01

Vacationing in Costa Rica is questionable?
Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2025

Or do you mean it’s questionable because of her America First and Last and Everything in between stance, and I am just slow? Lol.

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2025 01:49 PM (pZEOD)

132 118 - It is if you're playing the purity card. Given the number of "right wing MAGA" accounts on X that now turn out to be run by foreigners, it should be presumed that someone claiming purity status is a hypocrite until proven otherwise. Because 99% of the time they use that status to get in the way of anything actually getting done (which sums up MTG perfectly).

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 24, 2025 01:49 PM (Dg7ng)

133 >>@paulsperry_
·
4m
..BREAKING: Clinton-appointed Judge Cameron Currie, who records show has donated to Democrats, has dismissed the criminal case against ex-FBI honcho James Comey over a technicality. But she dismissed the indictments "without prejudice," which means Comey could soon be re-indicted.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2025 01:49 PM (viF8m)

134 Beep! Beep! Back the bus up!

Iowa Education Board Shifts from LGBTQ to Pro-Life Curriculum

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 24, 2025 01:49 PM (L/fGl)

135 The other AUSAs in the district refused to indict. S
==
It was the Justice Department all along. The CIA was a pimp. It never could have outfought El Trumpo....

Posted by: Now we see it at November 24, 2025 01:50 PM (4C4f2)

136 @124

>> Are there thousands in the office where the charges have to be filed?

As far as I can tell, there is no requirement that a federal prosecutor has to be of the jurisdiction where the charges are brought. You can assign someone from out of the jurisdiction.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 24, 2025 01:50 PM (XV/Pl)

137 Why does America First and Only vacation (and is rumored to own a million dollar property) in Costa Rica ?
Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 01

Vacationing in Costa Rica is questionable?
Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2025 01:46 PM (pZEOD)

When someone rejects any foreign engagement, investment, and outreach, as America Only fanclub is doing, then enjoys the fruits of such engagements is a hypocrite and shameless opportunist.

Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 01:50 PM (g47mK)

138 What difference, at this point, does it make?

Posted by: Old Lady Rodham at November 24, 2025 01:51 PM (QwTID)

139 Sen. Mark Kelly to face Court Martial under Pete Hegseth.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 24, 2025 01:51 PM (abIsI)

140 So these fuckers assume senoir status when the president will appoint like minded travelers into their seats and then it's a two fer situation. How many judges have assumed senior status since Trump took office?

Posted by: Reforger at November 24, 2025 01:51 PM (+Rs+1)

141 Piper too fast !!

Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 01:51 PM (g47mK)

142 No new prosecutor can ever be hired apparently. You get what you get and you don't throw a fit. Once they all die or leave, there shall be no prosecutions. It's in the constitution.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 24, 2025 01:51 PM (n5tGW)

143 137 Why does America First and Only vacation (and is rumored to own a million dollar property) in Costa Rica ?
Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 01

Vacationing in Costa Rica is questionable?
Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2025 01:46 PM (pZEOD)

When someone rejects any foreign engagement, investment, and outreach, as America Only fanclub is doing, then enjoys the fruits of such engagements is a hypocrite and shameless opportunist.
Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 01:50 PM (g47mK)

Puerto Rico, American Samoa, American Virgin Islands

Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 01:52 PM (PCK5/)

144 It is very possible given the current line of Scotus strict separation of powers appointment cases involving independent agencies that a congressional law permitting courts to appoint temporary prosecutors is also unconstitutional.

That is a key factor here because Grassley won't get off his ass and kill the blue slip policy. Thune should end the charade by stripping the Judiciary of blockading such appointments by simply scheduling floor votes of all pending DA nominations without any Judiciary Cmte input. Either that or recess so Trump can fill those positions until the next Congress.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 01:52 PM (WDjG6)

145 We were never going to "get" Comey.

At most, we could harrass.

Sucks, but DC is going to DC.

Posted by: coba at November 24, 2025 01:52 PM (IuIym)

146 When someone rejects any foreign engagement, investment, and outreach, as America Only fanclub is doing, then enjoys the fruits of such engagements is a hypocrite and shameless opportunist.
Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025

See my 131. I was slow on the uptake.

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2025 01:52 PM (pZEOD)

147 You can assign someone from out of the jurisdiction."

And when the judge rules otherwise?

Posted by: man at November 24, 2025 01:52 PM (XuXeR)

148 One way around a possible Statute of limitations problem is to bring an indictment for a conspiracy, with the continued actions to cover up the underlying crime tolling the SoL. We shall see

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 24, 2025 01:52 PM (bfwj/)

149 Border Patrol Moving Into a New City for Operation “Swamp Sweep”

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Can you narrow it down a bit?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 24, 2025 01:52 PM (L/fGl)

150 And WHY was she supposedly illegally appointed?

Because of the stupidity of the Senate, who due to the Blue Card 'Rule' has slowed the confirmation of Prosecutors for MONTHS.

There is advice and consent, and then there is purposely slowing down the system to a crawl... which... thinking on it, is exactly the same playbook the Senate used in Trump's first term.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 24, 2025 01:52 PM (mP0Kj)

151 What was that article you posted last week ace?

Anarcho-tyranny?

We're soaking in it.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 24, 2025 01:43 PM (ajCaF)

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The judges would have also accepted "drowning."

As in: You will be made to care drown ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 24, 2025 01:53 PM (GPNSy)

152 Puerto Rico, American Samoa, American Virgin Islands
Posted by: tubal at November 24, 2025 01:52 PM (PCK5/)

Package deal for Greenland ? No, wait, Am Samoa and VI stay.

Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 01:53 PM (g47mK)

153 Beep! Beep! Back the bus up!

Iowa Education Board Shifts from LGBTQ to Pro-Life Curriculum
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 24, 2025 01:49 PM (L/fGl)

How do they sound singing Lida Rose?
https://youtu.be/cUA6cLDLoEE

Posted by: Professor Harold Hill at November 24, 2025 01:53 PM (wVcYX)

154 142 gets it.

Posted by: man at November 24, 2025 01:53 PM (XuXeR)

155 What if Comey goes crazy and he starts to tell the truth all day every day.

People start screaming running away from these sad tales.

Posted by: thug dolphin at November 24, 2025 01:53 PM (EyfuW)

156 See my 131. I was slow on the uptake.
Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2025 01:52 PM (pZEOD)

see my 141

🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 01:54 PM (g47mK)

157 Yeah, I just looked it up, the doj can assign someone from outside of the jurisdiction to prosecute a case, and it’s all within the rights of the doj, they do not need the courts blessing.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 24, 2025 01:54 PM (XV/Pl)

158 144 Either that or recess so Trump can fill those positions until the next Congress.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 01:52 PM (WDjG6)

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It needs to be remembered that Senate rules dictate that Majority Leader can't just...make a recess.

It's a floor vote for the body as a whole.

51 Senators would need to approve giving Trump a free hand to recess appoint.

46 Dems and 2 Indies won't vote for it. I can think of 3 Republicans who wouldn't vote for it off the top of my head, and there are probably 10 more who wouldn't that I can't think of.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 01:55 PM (GBKbO)

159 ..BREAKING: Clinton-appointed Judge Cameron Currie, who records show has donated to Democrats, has dismissed the criminal case against ex-FBI honcho James Comey over a technicality. But she dismissed the indictments "without prejudice," which means Comey could soon be re-indicted.

*****

*ahem*

I am available, if anyone is interested...

Posted by: Special Council John Durham is a real firecraker of a straight shooter who is ready to bring the hea at November 24, 2025 01:55 PM (vuQMF)

160 Now, that's democracy!

Eric Swalwell Pushes a Wild Telephone Voting Plan to "Max Out Democracy"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 24, 2025 01:55 PM (L/fGl)

161 Is there a legitimate case to be made that Halligan's appointment was illegal? Or is it just that Congress has obstructed every legal way to make an appointment?

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at November 24, 2025 01:55 PM (xAC7C)

162 No one is allowed to urge a valid prosecution of a Democrat.

Posted by: the way I see it Dangerfield at November 24, 2025 01:55 PM (KDPiq)

163 I think I have an idea for what to do with those 87,000 new IRS agents.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at November 24, 2025 01:55 PM (zsz0f)

164 152 Puerto Rico, American Samoa, American Virgin Islands...


Bermuda, Bahama, come on, pretty mama
Key Largo, Montego, baby, why don't we go?

Posted by: Mike Love at November 24, 2025 01:55 PM (QwTID)

165
Eric Swalwell Pushes a Wild Telephone Voting Plan to "Max Out Democracy"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 24, 2025 01:55 PM (L/fGl)


Doesn't he illegally occupy a seat?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 01:55 PM (Zz0t1)

166 So throw out the fact that Grand Juries indicted these people , the "judge" doesn't like the Prosecutor...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 24, 2025 01:56 PM (VE6XX)

167 Judges are tyrants. Not a fan.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 24, 2025 01:56 PM (xcxpd)

168 As far as I can tell, there is no requirement that a federal prosecutor has to be of the jurisdiction where the charges are brought. You can assign someone from out of the jurisdiction.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

There is not but the main point is that teh blue slip policy allowing blue state senators to prevent DAs and District court judges from coming to a Judiciary vote is essentially unconstitutional.

No such provision exists in the Senate formal rules, the blue slip veto is not historically based as it is a recent 20th century innovation. It was created to prevent desegregation by Southern Democrat senators preventing Republican appointed district court judges intent on returning to the rule of law. The veto by senatorial courtesy meant that only milk toast GOP judges got appointed during that time.

So,thus Democrats, as always, abuse the rule while expecting the GOP as usual to cave and whine when the Democrats obliterate the understanding if it causes them any trouble.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 01:56 PM (WDjG6)

169 Now, that's democracy!

Eric Swalwell Pushes a Wild Telephone Voting Plan to "Max Out Democracy"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 24, 2025 01:55 PM (L/fGl)

American Political Idol.

Posted by: the way I see it Dangerfield at November 24, 2025 01:56 PM (KDPiq)

170 >> It is very possible given the current line of Scotus strict separation of powers appointment cases involving independent agencies that a congressional law permitting courts to appoint temporary prosecutors is also unconstitutional.

Will Chamberlain seems to think this decision will be reversed.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2025 01:56 PM (viF8m)

171 they do not need the courts blessing."

Ok, that's funny right there...

Posted by: man at November 24, 2025 01:56 PM (XuXeR)

172 One way around a possible Statute of limitations problem is to bring an indictment for a conspiracy, with the continued actions to cover up the underlying crime tolling the SoL. We shall see

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 24, 2025 01:52 PM (bfwj/)

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See me @ 65 and JackStraw @ 83.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 24, 2025 01:56 PM (GPNSy)

173 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

Posted by: Lord Comey at November 24, 2025 01:56 PM (WFC1M)

174 Runner and I have our own “Who’s on First” thing going!

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2025 01:57 PM (pZEOD)

175 Who knew being a pine scented druid philosopher came with such power.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 01:57 PM (Zz0t1)

176 Bondi has to be the first Republican appointed AG in recent memory the left hasn't gone after rabidly. Strange.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 24, 2025 01:57 PM (abIsI)

177 Remember during Trump's first term, when we were all sucking each others' dicks over All The Judges Being Appointed?

What happened to that.

Posted by: Delurker at November 24, 2025 01:57 PM (NhiOW)

178 Now, that's democracy!

Eric Swalwell Pushes a Wild Telephone Voting Plan to "Max Out Democracy"
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CHINESE CALL CENTERS COMING ONLINE

Posted by: What could go wrong at November 24, 2025 01:58 PM (4C4f2)

179 Don't make me unleash my kraken!

Posted by: Sidney Powell at November 24, 2025 01:58 PM (QwTID)

180 Runner and I have our own “Who’s on First” thing going!
Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2025 01:57 PM (pZEOD)


Get a room already!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 01:58 PM (Zz0t1)

181 Trump's administration seem reluctant to confront the judicial coup head on and treat it for what it is... a coup.

*shrugs* Pretty much everything he and his administration's doing will be overturned as soon as the Democrats regain the levers of power. Using the judicial system currently in place.

This reluctance seems... unwise.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 24, 2025 01:58 PM (NwnyJ)

182 177 Remember during Trump's first term, when we were all sucking each others' dicks over All The Judges Being Appointed?

What happened to that.

Posted by: Delurker at November 24, 2025 01:57 PM (NhiOW)

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"Trump didn't replace every district court judge in America, so all the advances on the judiciary are actually nothing."
-it's a take

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 01:59 PM (GBKbO)

183 Is there a legitimate case to be made that Halligan's appointment was illegal? Or is it just that Congress has obstructed every legal way to make an appointment?
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at November 24, 2025 01:55 PM (xAC7C)
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I don't know enough about how interim appointments are supposed to work. I do note, however, that the DOJ acknowledged Halligan's appointment may have been a "paperwork error." I don't like the sound of that.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 24, 2025 01:59 PM (iFTx/)

184 181 Trump's administration seem reluctant to confront the judicial coup head on and treat it for what it is... a coup.

*shrugs* Pretty much everything he and his administration's doing will be overturned as soon as the Democrats regain the levers of power. Using the judicial system currently in place.

This reluctance seems... unwise.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 24, 2025 01:58 PM (NwnyJ)

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You want the real reason?

It's because SCOTUS keeps siding with Trump.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 01:59 PM (GBKbO)

185 Remember during Trump's first term, when we were all sucking each others' dicks
==
I missed that. I feel left out...

Posted by: Mayor Pete at November 24, 2025 01:59 PM (4C4f2)

186 161 Is there a legitimate case to be made that Halligan's appointment was illegal? Or is it just that Congress has obstructed every legal way to make an appointment?
Posted by: Emmie

If you read the decision above, the judge is claiming that judges in the Eastern district have the right to appoint the prosecutor, not Trump. Same issue as Habib in NJ. Congressional statute, gave the judiciary the right to fill DA offices when Congress did not permit a president to fill them. The overlapping conflicting law is the executive vacancies statute that permits temporary appointments for 120 days to fill vacancies.

This judge decided to favor his own black robed tyrants rather than what the Constitution clearly states, the president is the head of the executive branch and as such major officers, like DAs must be appointed by the president, not filled by judicial busybodies.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 01:59 PM (WDjG6)

187 hitler was a great painter....

https://tinyurl.com/48ykjf36

Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 01:59 PM (g47mK)

188 This busty riverside brunette isn't down with the judicial coup:
http://tiny.cc/1vjv001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 24, 2025 02:00 PM (0lawO)

189 Remember during Trump's first term, when we were all sucking each others' dicks over All The Judges Being Appointed?

What happened to that.

Posted by: Delurker at November 24, 2025 01:57 PM (NhiOW)

You mean the three SC justices?

Posted by: the way I see it Dangerfield at November 24, 2025 02:00 PM (KDPiq)

190 Don't make me unleash my kraken!
Posted by: Sidney Powell at November 24, 2025 01:58 PM (QwTID)

Whatever happened to her anyway? She in some kind of rest and convalescence home or insane asylum? Or practicing law?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 24, 2025 02:00 PM (/iXAp)

191 >>See me @ 65 and JackStraw @ 83.

Guess who the judge is presiding over the grand jury to be convened in January.

Aileen M. Cannon, the judge who smacked Jack Smith upside the head for his idiotic attempted case against Trump.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2025 02:00 PM (viF8m)

192
The Black robe. It is magic.

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 24, 2025 02:00 PM (IifOV)

193 But a court system only exists to manage a society efficiently, predictably and non-violently. When it becomes inefficient, unpredictable and actively shields the violent while hounding the law-abiding, its days are numbered. There's no reason not to prefer the neighborhood lynch mob.

The Empress likes to mention that due process is a fucking miracle in the context of human history, and that destroying it will arguably go worst for the criminals.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 24, 2025 02:01 PM (2ocoG)

194 Trust the plan!!!!!

Posted by: Q at November 24, 2025 02:01 PM (4C4f2)

195 This busty riverside brunette isn't down with the judicial coup:
http://tiny.cc/1vjv001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 24, 2025 02:00 PM (0lawO)


Walk on water. Float. Whichever.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 02:01 PM (Zz0t1)

196 http://tiny.cc/1vjv001

Lordy lord. Sundress for the win

Posted by: the way I see it Dangerfield at November 24, 2025 02:01 PM (KDPiq)

197 Is this about me?

Posted by: Busty riverside brunette at November 24, 2025 02:01 PM (QwTID)

198 This busty riverside brunette isn't down with the judicial coup:
http://tiny.cc/1vjv001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 24, 2025 02:00 PM (0lawO)
____

I'm not falling for her fake hillbilly rural gimmick, but ... TBWB.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 24, 2025 02:02 PM (iFTx/)

199 Remember during Trump's first term, when we were all sucking each others' dicks over All The Judges Being Appointed?

What happened to that.

The "random" judge picker for cases keeps coming up Boasberg. None of the Trump judges have been involved in any of these shitty rulings.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 24, 2025 02:02 PM (2ocoG)

200 One of the odder things about twitter tracking where people are posting from is that a lot of "Palestinian" posters are in places like Pakistan and a lot of "Israeli" posters are in places like...India

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2025 02:02 PM (sKqQm)

201
Mitch McConnell got the judges through So you can imagine what kind of rulings you're going to get.

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 24, 2025 02:03 PM (IifOV)

202 The "random" judge picker for cases keeps coming up Boasberg. None of the Trump judges have been involved in any of these shitty rulings.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 24, 2025 02:02 PM (2ocoG)


Seems they are using the same coin that Hillary kept flipping to beat Bernie during the primary.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 02:03 PM (Zz0t1)

203 See, this is the glaring flaw

Our side is all "You've really messed up this time, Buster!"

and then nothing happens
over and over and over again

I don't know how you fix that
Trump in the WH, with majorities in both houses of Congress isn't fixing it

maybe it can't be fixed
by design

Posted by: Don Black at November 24, 2025 02:03 PM (AOsQT)

204 This busty riverside brunette isn't down with the judicial coup:
http://tiny.cc/1vjv001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 24, 2025 02:00 PM (0lawO)

Very busty

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 24, 2025 02:03 PM (xcxpd)

205 Remember during Trump's first term, when we were all sucking each others' dicks over All The Judges Being Appointed?

Is that like figuratively or literally? Because uh...I need to know

Posted by: Pete Bootyjuice at November 24, 2025 02:03 PM (sKqQm)

206 The "random" judge picker for cases keeps coming up Boasberg. None of the Trump judges have been involved in any of these shitty rulings.
Posted by: Ian S.
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A few have but most have been Democrat judges. Also remember though that even Trump judges were vetted by the GOPe for his first term and GOPe senators using the blue slip policy and Mitch to kill any district court nominees that GOPe disapproved.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 02:04 PM (WDjG6)

207 @186

>>If you read the decision above, the judge is claiming that judges in the Eastern district have the right to appoint the prosecutor, not Trump. Same issue as Habib in NJ.

The short answer is no and no, judges do not have the authority to appoint prosecutors and or assign them to cases.

This decision is literal lunacy.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 24, 2025 02:04 PM (XV/Pl)

208 Michelle's Latest Theory: “White Folks” Stop Blacks from Learning How To Swim

The former first lady, in a live podcast, recently said: "Let me explain something to white people. Our hair comes out of our head naturally in a curly pattern. So, when we're straightening it to follow your beauty standards, we are trapped by the straightness.

"That's why so many of us can't swim, and we run away from the water. People won't go to the gym because we're trying to keep our hair straight for y'all. It is exhausting, and it is so expensive, and it takes up so much time!"

-
Well, one thing for sure. Black people spend a lot of time trying to make white people happy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 24, 2025 02:04 PM (L/fGl)

209 One of the odder things about twitter tracking where people are posting from is that a lot of "Palestinian" posters are in places like Pakistan and a lot of "Israeli" posters are in places like...India

India is actually friendlier to Israel in some ways than we are, at least on an official government level. It turns out having Muslims on the border blowing people up on occasion leads to finding Israel more attractive.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 24, 2025 02:04 PM (2ocoG)

210 Ace, sorry to be that guy, but your last sentence contains a grammatical error: it’s “has already…run,” not “ran.”

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 02:04 PM (77rzZ)

211 Michelle's Latest Theory: “White Folks” Stop Blacks from Learning How To Swim



Racist bish gotta racist bish.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 02:05 PM (Zz0t1)

212 For one crazy, irresponsible moment, I thought I had enough ammo. I now know better.

Posted by: Paco at November 24, 2025 02:05 PM (mADJX)

213 This busty riverside brunette isn't down with the judicial coup:
http://tiny.cc/1vjv001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 24, 2025 02:00 PM (0lawO)

Very busty
=
She has needs.

Posted by: Look at my boobs and give me stuff at November 24, 2025 02:05 PM (4C4f2)

214
Grammar Nazi

Posted by: fourseasons at November 24, 2025 02:05 PM (3ek7K)

215 >This busty riverside brunette isn't down with the judicial coup:

----

'It was one a them busty Si-REENS, done loved me all up!'

Posted by: Don Black at November 24, 2025 02:05 PM (AOsQT)

216 One of the odder things about twitter tracking where people are posting from is that a lot of "Palestinian" posters are in places like Pakistan and a lot of "Israeli" posters are in places like...India
Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2025 02:02 PM (sKqQm)
______

No way! Next you're gonna tell me that the THOT who self-tagged at Masa was actually at the sushi counter at Whole Foods????

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 24, 2025 02:05 PM (iFTx/)

217 177 Remember during Trump's first term, when we were all sucking each others' dicks over All The Judges Being Appointed?

What happened to that.
Posted by: Delurker

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What were you expecting, a purge?

newsletter, subscribe, etc.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 24, 2025 02:05 PM (8VwBr)

218 Our side is all "You've really messed up this time, Buster!"

and then nothing happens
over and over and over again


While FedGov has always had this problem...it is something inherent to government - it became way way worse after the cold war.

I suspect during the cold war there was some level of concern that if the people in FedGov screwed up enough they could be removed from power. But now? Who will threaten the Levithan of the American government? They are too big to fail!

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2025 02:05 PM (sKqQm)

219 Repost, kind of worth 19 minutes to kill:

You saw most of the repub 'influencers' during that knock down drag out on twitter a few months ago. Lemme see if I can find the clip sort of explaining it.

https://tinyurl.com/ete6kpph

Just remember that all of these except for Shoeonhead are supposed to be conservative female influencers.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 24, 2025 12:47 PM (bss/y)

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 02:05 PM (dK+Kv)

220
"That's why so many of us can't swim, and we run away from the water. People won't go to the gym because we're trying to keep our hair straight for y'all. It is exhausting, and it is so expensive, and it takes up so much time!"



Everything that guy just said is bullshit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 02:05 PM (Zz0t1)

221 "That's why so many of us can't swim, and we run away from the water. People won't go to the gym because we're trying to keep our hair straight for y'all. It is exhausting, and it is so expensive, and it takes up so much time!"
___

She is so exhausting.

And so dumb, bless her heart.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 24, 2025 02:05 PM (22p5n)

222 This busty riverside brunette isn't down with the judicial coup:
http://tiny.cc/1vjv001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 24, 2025 02:00 PM (0lawO)

Walk on water. Float. Whichever.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 02:01 PM (Zz0t1)

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Smart Military Blog Trivia for the Under-29 Crowd:

World War II soldiers and airmen commonly referred to inflatable life preservers as "Mae Wests."

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 24, 2025 02:06 PM (GPNSy)

223 lol Sponge.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 24, 2025 02:06 PM (22p5n)

224 210 Ace, sorry to be that guy, but your last sentence contains a grammatical error: it’s “has already…run,” not “ran.”
Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 02

I am sending you my book to proof read. You are going to be VERY busy. 😂

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2025 02:06 PM (pZEOD)

225 144 It is very possible given the current line of Scotus strict separation of powers appointment cases involving independent agencies that a congressional law permitting courts to appoint temporary prosecutors is also unconstitutional.

That is a key factor here because Grassley won't get off his ass and kill the blue slip policy. Thune should end the charade by stripping the Judiciary of blockading such appointments by simply scheduling floor votes of all pending DA nominations without any Judiciary Cmte input. Either that or recess so Trump can fill those positions until the next Congress.
Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 01:52 PM (WDjG6)

Whig,
Can you explain to me why there has been no recess since Obama?

Posted by: Inogame at November 24, 2025 02:07 PM (53oGX)

226 Let's just voat harder!

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, Ltd. at November 24, 2025 02:07 PM (OVJzN)

227 I'm watching the 1983 Skins Game with Jack,Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Tom Watson and Gary Player. Still using wood drivers.

Time flies. Arnold is dead, Jack is 85, Gary is 90 and Tom is 75.

Posted by: the way I see it Dangerfield at November 24, 2025 02:07 PM (KDPiq)

228 "That's why so many of us can't swim, and we run away from the water. People won't go to the gym because we're trying to keep our hair straight for y'all.

I do see plenty of black guys in the gym, but not many black women honestly.

Of course I really don't think "how will my hair look" comes into it at all because plenty of the non-black women there are certainly not too concerned with looks (and in fairness that's fine, that's not the point of a gym)

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2025 02:08 PM (sKqQm)

229 ".. when we were all sucking each others' dicks over All The Judges Being Appointed?"
###

Marge, get the calendar. We're going to on of these MoMe things no matter what!

Posted by: Homer at November 24, 2025 02:08 PM (QwTID)

230 210 Ace, sorry to be that guy, but your last sentence contains a grammatical error: it’s “has already…run,” not “ran.” - Bulg

I'm seeing an awful lot of this specific error lately, even among talking news heads. What's the other one...oh, yeah..."he had went".

Posted by: Paco at November 24, 2025 02:08 PM (mADJX)

231 Seems they are using the same coin that Hillary kept flipping to beat Bernie during the primary.
Posted by: Sponge
======
Rottenness in the District court clerk's office is why. They assign the judges, supposedly at random. Time to replace those assholes with some computer generated random assignments, no more clerks involved.

A lot of Democrat 'wins' are related to control of process which is why the IC is going nuts over Gabbard-- the powers of the Director of National Intelligence job have never really been used other than to stymie attempts to reel in the Deep State.

The Deep State controlled the DNI office by putting idiots (Clapper), GOPe types like Dan Coats who go along to get along, or placeholders like Avril Haines from Biden.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 02:08 PM (WDjG6)

232 Michelle's Latest Theory: “White Folks” Stop Blacks from Learning How To Swim

The former first lady, in a live podcast, recently said: "Let me explain something to white people. Our hair comes out of our head naturally in a curly pattern. So, when we're straightening it to follow your beauty standards, we are trapped by the straightness.

"That's why so many of us can't swim, and we run away from the water. People won't go to the gym because we're trying to keep our hair straight for y'all. It is exhausting, and it is so expensive, and it takes up so much time!"

-
Well, one thing for sure. Black people spend a lot of time trying to make white people happy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 24, 2025 02:04 PM (L/fGl)

If I'm having that power over you, my first objective is to get you to shut your incessant, ignorant, hateful yapping.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 02:08 PM (dK+Kv)

233 Guess who the judge is presiding over the grand jury to be convened in January.

Aileen M. Cannon, the judge who smacked Jack Smith upside the head for his idiotic attempted case against Trump.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2025 02:00 PM (viF8m)

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Awesome Sauce!

Thanks for the good news -- was not aware of that the fact, Jack ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 24, 2025 02:08 PM (GPNSy)

234 224 I’d be happy to, Piper. I love proofreading, and
I could use the work.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 02:08 PM (77rzZ)

235 225 Whig,
Can you explain to me why there has been no recess since Obama?

Posted by: Inogame at November 24, 2025 02:07 PM (53oGX)

======

It requires a majority vote from the Senate. Getting the majority to agree to allow recess appointments seems to be...difficult.

Power over appointments is one of the few things the Senate has left after a century of hollowing itself out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 02:08 PM (GBKbO)

236 Ace, sorry to be that guy, but your last sentence contains a grammatical error: it’s “has already…run,” not “ran.”
Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 02

But has it run so far away?

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2025 02:08 PM (Ltmlv)

237 Cocaine Mitch needs to be placed out in the pasture where he can graze and shit himself and fall down with impunity.

Posted by: Lord Comey at November 24, 2025 02:09 PM (WFC1M)

238 226 Let's just voat harder!
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, Ltd. at November 24, 2025 02:07 PM (OVJzN)

I mean, we couldFedpoast, but that's not going to do anything either.

Posted by: XTC at November 24, 2025 02:09 PM (UnA8+)

239 But NOT Jack Smith, definitely a "creation," right?!

Before investigating Donald Trump, Jack Smith was the chief prosecutor for the special court in The Hague investigating war crimes in Kosovo.

(Side Note: The United States does not belong to the International Criminal Court (ICC), which is located in The Hague. Although the U.S. was involved in the negotiations for the court, it ultimately did not ratify the Rome Statute that established it and has concerns about the court's jurisdiction over American citizens.)

He also previously served in "various roles" within the U.S. Justice Department, including as head of the Public Integrity Section, and as an assistant U.S. attorney in New York and Tennessee.

(Side Note: The Public Integrity Section (PIN) oversees the investigation and prosecution of all federal crimes affecting government integrity, including bribery of public officials, election crimes, and other related offenses.)

(Another: NY, NY!)

Jack has had lots of meetings & a**es in chairs positions, awaiting good news from his field staffs.
---
Mostly AI Overview because I'm being lazy & have a sinus headache.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at November 24, 2025 02:09 PM (NFX2v)

240 Just remember that all of these except for Shoeonhead are supposed to be conservative female influencers.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 24, 2025 12:47 PM (bss/y)


She puts her squeekhole on the internet.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 02:09 PM (Zz0t1)

241 Can you explain to me why there has been no recess since Obama?
==
Because there is only one party.

Posted by: Not Whig, but this is as likely as anything else at November 24, 2025 02:09 PM (4C4f2)

242 "That's why so many of us can't swim,..."

when your only tool is "blame whitey and play victim," you apply it to everything.

I have seen it in action. It is a poison on people who succumb.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 24, 2025 02:10 PM (8VwBr)

243 212 For one crazy, irresponsible moment, I thought I had enough ammo. I now know better.
Posted by: Paco

One never has 'enough' ammo.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 24, 2025 02:10 PM (abIsI)

244 She puts her squeekhole on the internet.

Like Katic Couric or like Hope Solo?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2025 02:10 PM (sKqQm)

245 ... "That's why so many of us can't swim, and we run away from the water. People won't go to the gym because we're trying to keep our hair straight for y'all. It is exhausting, and it is so expensive, and it takes up so much time!" ...
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 24, 2025 02:04 PM (L/fGl)
++++
LOL K

Three things:
1. Bullshit. All of it. If "black people can't swim" is a thing (is it?), that's because - and entirely because - they don't to. And fine. If you don't want to do it, don't do it.
2. Even if it *is* a thing, it ain't your hair causing it
3. Even if it *is* because of your hair products, that's for and by *you,* not me. I don't give two fucks if your hair is curly and neither does virtually anyone else. You like it straight and dump time, effort and money into doing that? Okay. Fine. Have at it. Don't say you're doing it for me. You're not. You're doing it for you. Just own it. "I like straight hair, and I work hard on it, and I ain't ruining it in some swimming pool!" There. Was that so damn hard?

It's so fucking annoying.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 24, 2025 02:10 PM (0lawO)

246 She puts her squeekhole on the internet.
==
Excuse me? She sells dog toys now?

Posted by: Wut at November 24, 2025 02:10 PM (4C4f2)

247 She puts her squeekhole on the internet.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 02:09 PM (Zz0t1)

Shoeonhead? I wouldn't know her from Hope Solo.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 02:11 PM (dK+Kv)

248
I yam ranning like crazee kleaning for Thinksgiving.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 24, 2025 02:11 PM (3ek7K)

249 243 One never has 'enough' ammo. - Maj. Healey

That fact is now permanently burned into my brain.

Posted by: Paco at November 24, 2025 02:11 PM (mADJX)

250 >>@Techno_Fog
·
1h
>>A federal judge has dismissed the case against James Comey.

>>Reasoning: “the Attorney General’s attempt to install Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney for EDVA was invalid.”

>>Judge concludes “Halligan had no lawful authority to present the indictment”

>>Expect a quick appeal.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2025 02:12 PM (viF8m)

251 "That's why so many of us can't swim,..."

when your only tool is "blame whitey and play victim," you apply it to everything.

I have seen it in action. It is a poison on people who succumb.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at November 24, 2025 02:10 PM (8VwBr)

Yep. Absolutely deadly.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 02:12 PM (dK+Kv)

252 247 She puts her squeekhole on the internet.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 02:09 PM (Zz0t1)

Shoeonhead? I wouldn't know her from Hope Solo.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 02:11 PM (dK+Kv)

Considering that she's married and has a child now, probably not (anymore).

Posted by: XTC at November 24, 2025 02:12 PM (UnA8+)

253
Like Katic Couric or like Hope Solo?
Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2025 02:10 PM (sKqQm)


Solo.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 02:12 PM (Zz0t1)

254 "The former first lady, in a live podcast, recently said: "Let me explain something to white people. Our hair comes out of our head naturally in a curly pattern. So, when we're straightening it to follow your beauty standards, we are trapped by the straightness."
________

"Preach, sister!"

-- Pete Bootyjuice

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 24, 2025 02:12 PM (iFTx/)

255 Oh my stars, I just saw a close up of Melania’s plaid Manolo Blahnik BB 105 Pux Heels she wore for the arrival of the Christmas a tree. Squeeeeeee!

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2025 02:13 PM (pZEOD)

256 I haven't listen to ShoeonHead in a while but in general I think she's hot and smart even if she identifies as a liberal.

Posted by: the way I see it Dangerfield at November 24, 2025 02:13 PM (KDPiq)

257 Rottenness in the District court clerk's office is why. They assign the judges, supposedly at random. Time to replace those assholes with some computer generated random assignments, no more clerks involved.

----------------

SmartMatic and Dominion are available ... for now.


Now that you're here, whig -- I'm curious about your opinion on tenure in academia?

Was going to reply to the above comment that you can throw in getting rid of tenure in colleges & universities as well ...

I pointed out last thread that this judge is a Clinton appointment with senior status. A lot of the anti Trump administration decisions are from senior judges. Get rid of that status now

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 24, 2025 01:45 PM (bfwj/)

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 24, 2025 02:13 PM (FDQwn)

258 Can someone weld Big Mike's mouth shut?

Preferably a black man?

Posted by: XTC at November 24, 2025 02:13 PM (UnA8+)

259 Whig,
Can you explain to me why there has been no recess since Obama?
Posted by: Inogame

Started in Obama years to prevent the president from recess appointments under McConnell. One Scotus case, from foggy memory dealt with Obama recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board, I think. That resulted in the Court declaring that the Senate must be in recess for at least three days for the recess clause to kick in. Also a recess between Congresses after adjournment until a new Congress. Case is NLRB v. Canning.

I think Obama appointed members with less than three days between Senate Sessions but I would have to dig up the case to confirm.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 02:13 PM (WDjG6)

260 People in the 60s: Imagine in the far future when all information is available on an integrated computer system what wonders we will solve!

People in the far future when all information is available on an integrated computer system: Hey I wonder if I can see that person's butt on the internet?!?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2025 02:14 PM (sKqQm)

261 Oh my stars, I just saw a close up of Melania’s plaid Manolo Blahnik BB 105 Pux Heels she wore for the arrival of the Christmas a tree. Squeeeeeee!
Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2025 02:13 PM (pZEOD)

Yeah, but was she reading Compute! magazine?

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2025 02:14 PM (Ltmlv)

262 This busty riverside brunette isn't down with the judicial coup:
http://tiny.cc/1vjv001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 24, 2025 02:00 PM (0lawO)

Walk on water. Float. Whichever.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 02:01 PM (Zz0t1)

She has the minimum accoutrements to be designated "busty."

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 24, 2025 02:14 PM (wVcYX)

263 I don't really know if it's really the case that black people can't swim, but according to the data, black people drown death rate at a 1.5 times of white people, hispanics and asians are only 0.9 times.

I'm not sure why white people swim better than people from other cultures, but since we can't run, jump or do math as well as other cultures, at least let us have this one bragging right.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 24, 2025 02:15 PM (XV/Pl)

264 Solo.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 02:12 PM (Zz0t1)

Apparently you are right. Funny that HoeMath rated her highly on his scale in that vid and then said he would watch for more from her.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 02:15 PM (dK+Kv)

265 Hey thanks for remembering me. Its been awhile since ive had any attention....

Posted by: Hope's Rollo at November 24, 2025 02:15 PM (4C4f2)

266 Yeah, but was she reading Compute! magazine?
Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2025 02:14 PM (Ltmlv)


My brother and I sent in a correction to a program they published in that magazine once. They posted it a couple months later.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 02:16 PM (Zz0t1)

267 She has the minimum accoutrements to be designated "busty."

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 24, 2025 02:14 PM (wVcYX)

I have a developing scientific theory.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 02:16 PM (dK+Kv)

268 237 Cocaine Mitch needs to be placed out in the pasture where he can graze and shit himself and fall down with impunity. - Lord Comey

And where I can chase him with a front loader, over hill and dale until the sun sets.

Posted by: Paco at November 24, 2025 02:16 PM (mADJX)

269 Hey, Doof, did you hear about the pickleball ban in
Carmel, CA?

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 02:17 PM (77rzZ)

270 Can someone weld Big Mike's mouth shut?

It's normally supposed to be blocked from speaking to Barack's dick, but I guess they've had trouble booking the Hubble Telescope to try and find it, given how small it is.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 24, 2025 02:17 PM (2ocoG)

271 Deep State rules again

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2025 02:17 PM (+qU29)

272 Huh. I thought there was only Zuul.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2025 01:28 PM (Riz8t)

A Democrat judge has ruled that Zuul can remain in the US instead of returning to its place of origin or the nearest convenient parallel dimension.

Posted by: The Mantastic Tor at November 24, 2025 02:17 PM (We5PL)

273 268 237 Cocaine Mitch needs to be placed out in the pasture where he can graze and shit himself and fall down with impunity. - Lord Comey

And where I can chase him with a front loader, over hill and dale until the sun sets.
Posted by: Paco at November 24, 2025 02:16 PM (mADJX)

Tired : Front Loader
Inspired : Combine Harvester

Posted by: XTC at November 24, 2025 02:17 PM (UnA8+)

274 Did ShoeOnHead get "hacked" or was it purely intentional?

If the former...someone really needs to teach young women that if there are pictures of you nekkid on your phone that the odds of someone getting them are pretty high...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2025 02:18 PM (sKqQm)

275 Now that you're here, whig -- I'm curious about your opinion on tenure in academia?

Was going to reply to the above comment that you can throw in getting rid of tenure in colleges & universities as well ...

I pointed out last thread that this judge is a Clinton appointment with senior status. A lot of the anti Trump administration decisions are from senior judges. Get rid of that status now

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 24, 2025 01:45 PM (bfwj/)
Posted by: ShainS
=======
Get rid of it. It can be replaced simply like we did for lecturers in our department where you are assumed to have continuity (requiring a finding with due process of misbehavior on the job aka cause) rather than an absolute right to keep your job.

I would also amend the Constitution to require 8 year terms for district court judges, 12 perhaps for circuit courts, and 20 for Scotus. And allow reappointment and reconfirmation for judges that do good. Otherwise, you need someway to reign in judges either by allowing political branches or states to overrule specific judicial rulings on constitutional grounds without having to go through impeachment (worthless) or the rigorous requirement of amending.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 02:18 PM (WDjG6)

276 Funny that HoeMath rated her highly on his scale in that vid and then said he would watch for more from her.

HM's kept it out of his videos so far, but on X he's full scale Tucker-level "Jews invented feminism so we must bomb Israel". Too bad, he seemed smarter than that.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 24, 2025 02:18 PM (2ocoG)

277 261 Oh my stars, I just saw a close up of Melania’s plaid Manolo Blahnik BB 105 Pux Heels she wore for the arrival of the Christmas a tree. Squeeeeeee!
Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2025 02:13 PM (pZEOD)

Yeah, but was she reading Compute! magazine?
Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2025

You tried, Doof. But I really think I need these shoes…because obviously I need more shoes.

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2025 02:19 PM (pZEOD)

278 Did ShoeOnHead get "hacked" or was it purely intentional?

If the former...someone really needs to teach young women that if there are pictures of you nekkid on your phone that the odds of someone getting them are pretty high...
Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2025 02:18 PM (sKqQm)


Her's seemed intentional. She's never bitched about them being out there nor did she threaten lawsuits.

That I've heard of, anyway. But I don't follow her other than the occasional glance at her nudes when her name comes up in conversation for some reason.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 02:19 PM (Zz0t1)

279 someone really needs to teach young women that if there are pictures of you nekkid on your phone that the odds of someone getting them are pretty high...
==
You need to rethink this....

Posted by: Every Moron on Earth at November 24, 2025 02:19 PM (4C4f2)

280 Just think how big a pain in the ass the old slave owners had to deal with when they had 20 or 30 Mike Obamas running around the property.

Bitch bitch bitch...

Posted by: Zombie Simon Legree at November 24, 2025 02:20 PM (1mUlr)

281 Speaking’ o’ shoesI just bought new sneakers. Sketchers.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 02:20 PM (77rzZ)

282 Oh look something happened.

Posted by: Guy who always says "Nothing will happen" and is usually right at November 24, 2025 02:20 PM (vFG9F)

283 HM's kept it out of his videos so far, but on X he's full scale Tucker-level "Jews invented feminism so we must bomb Israel". Too bad, he seemed smarter than that.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 24, 2025 02:18 PM (2ocoG)

Funny. I am not a follower. I just happened to get sucked into that one video. It seems everyone is going off of one deep end or another these days.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 02:21 PM (dK+Kv)

284 Just think how big a pain in the ass the old slave owners had to deal with when they had 20 or 30 Mike Obamas running around the property.

The slaves didn't have the Ivy League teaching them to bitch.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 24, 2025 02:21 PM (2ocoG)

285 >>Expect a quick appeal.
Posted by: JackStraw

Read the reason why--Judge claimed that Halligan's position should have been filled by judges as per the idiotic (and now presumably unconstitutional) statute allowing such. Point seven in the ruling summary.

Same issue in NJ where the Democrat criminal House member was charged. Habib is being blocked by Dem Senators from getting a vote in Senate Judiciary (blue slip bullshit).

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 02:21 PM (WDjG6)

286 My brother and I sent in a correction to a program they published in that magazine once. They posted it a couple months later.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 02:16 PM (Zz0t1)

Nice!

We've had a running thing on the ONT for about 4 or 5 straight nights about Compute! magazine. Not that you would know anything about the ONT.

As such, I'll bring you some news -- Wall of Shame for last week had you at the top of the commenter list. Nearly twice as prolific as the #2 spot.

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2025 02:21 PM (Ltmlv)

287 273 Tired : Front Loader
Inspired : Combine Harvester - XTC

Be kind of a mess to clean the blades, though, wouldn't it?

Posted by: Paco at November 24, 2025 02:22 PM (mADJX)

288 280 Just think how big a pain in the ass the old slave owners had to deal with when they had 20 or 30 Mike Obamas running around the property.

Bitch bitch bitch...
Posted by: Zombie Simon Legree at November 24, 2025 02:20 PM (1mUlr)

You're not going to get 30 Black Troons all in the same place even now, let alone 1858.

Posted by: XTC at November 24, 2025 02:22 PM (UnA8+)

289 Breaking: Clinton Judge Dismisses Indictments of Both James Comey and "Big Tish" James, Claiming the US Attorney Prosecuting Them Was Unlawfully Installed
-

I say there needs to be a new meaning to the term "hanging judge."

This is war.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 24, 2025 02:22 PM (POgqv)

290 As such, I'll bring you some news -- Wall of Shame for last week had you at the top of the commenter list. Nearly twice as prolific as the #2 spot.
Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2025 02:21 PM (Ltmlv)


Noice!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 02:22 PM (Zz0t1)

291 I’m glad that I did not make the Top 10 commenters list for once.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 02:22 PM (77rzZ)

292 Michelle Obama successfully monetized Angry Black Woman

why won't she go away

Posted by: Don Black at November 24, 2025 02:22 PM (AOsQT)

293 287 Be kind of a mess to clean the blades, though, wouldn't it?
Posted by: Paco at November 24, 2025 02:22 PM (mADJX)

If it's not messy, it's not cruel enough.

Posted by: XTC at November 24, 2025 02:23 PM (UnA8+)

294 As such, I'll bring you some news -- Wall of Shame for last week had you at the top of the commenter list. Nearly twice as prolific as the #2 spot.
Posted by: Doof at November

I also have news, I just texted the shoes to you. Hahahah.

Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2025 02:23 PM (pZEOD)

295 263 I don't really know if it's really the case that black people can't swim, but according to the data, black people drown death rate at a 1.5 times of white people, hispanics and asians are only 0.9 times.

I'm not sure why white people swim better than people from other cultures, but since we can't run, jump or do math as well as other cultures, at least let us have this one bragging right.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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Muscle to fat ratio. Very lean and muscular types have trouble swimming as the density of muscle tissue higher than water means that they don't float as easy without constantly swimming. Fat is less dense than water so easier to float up to a point.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 02:23 PM (WDjG6)

296 Did ShoeOnHead get "hacked" or was it purely intentional?

If the former...someone really needs to teach young women that if there are pictures of you nekkid on your phone that the odds of someone getting them are pretty high...
Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2025 02:18 PM (sKqQm)


Her's seemed intentional. She's never bitched about them being out there nor did she threaten lawsuits.

That I've heard of, anyway. But I don't follow her other than the occasional glance at her nudes when her name comes up in conversation for some reason.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 02:19 PM (Zz0t1)
______

99% of this kind of shit is intentional for PR and likes (and money)

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 24, 2025 02:23 PM (iFTx/)

297 Okay, I'm going to say it.

Nothing will happen.

Posted by: blaster at November 24, 2025 02:23 PM (RoO7G)

298 Hey, Doof, did you hear about the pickleball ban in
Carmel, CA?
Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 02:17 PM (77rzZ)

I did. I'd like to think there are some PB players who will just do something equally as noisy in protest. But its commie-fornia, so unlikely.

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2025 02:23 PM (Ltmlv)

299 Be kind of a mess to clean the blades, though, wouldn't it?
Posted by: Paco at November 24, 2025 02:22 PM (mADJX)

Nah. You just find some hay to cut down. Cleans the body parts right out.

Posted by: Reforger at November 24, 2025 02:24 PM (+Rs+1)

300 You hate me so much that you won't go swimming just so that it don't wreck your hair what you straightened for no other reason than to impress me because you thought I really really wanted you to have straight hair....

O..... K?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 24, 2025 02:24 PM (06Hmj)

301 Nah. You just find some hay to cut down. Cleans the body parts right out.
Posted by: Reforger at November 24, 2025 02:24 PM (+Rs+1)

Like running some stale bread through your sausage grinder when you're all done with it? Makes sense.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 24, 2025 02:25 PM (06Hmj)

302 281 Speaking’ o’ shoesI just bought new sneakers. Sketchers.
Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 02:20 PM (77rzZ)

Did you buy the hands free slip in type or the type that shape your bum?

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 24, 2025 02:25 PM (vZUXb)

303 Michelle Obama successfully monetized Angry Black Woman

why won't she go away
==
Youve never tried to get an angry black woman to walk away have you???

Posted by: Its best to have a taser ready at November 24, 2025 02:25 PM (4C4f2)

304 >>Read the reason why--Judge claimed that Halligan's position should have been filled by judges as per the idiotic (and now presumably unconstitutional) statute allowing such. Point seven in the ruling summary.

Yea, some of the legal X types think this will be overturned. Roberts needs to get off his ass and start hammering these rogue judges.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2025 02:25 PM (viF8m)

305
Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 02:18 PM (WDjG6)

----------------

Good ideas -- and thank you for the response.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 24, 2025 02:25 PM (FDQwn)

306 As I said below, all this is going to mean is the interim appointment act is going to be found unconstitutional

there is no other way now.

Because, otherwise, the Legislative can prevent the Executive from fulfilling his Constitutionally-mandated duty to enforce the law by, as here, merely refusing to act on a nomination.

So we are in a position where criminals can go free because the Senate refuses to act?

To put it another way, the Advise and Consent Clause cannot be used to prevent the President from performing his mandatory duties via appointments--elevating one clause of Article I over the entirety of Article II.

yeah, SCOTIUS is gonna say, "you guys work it out but we're not handcuffing the Executive like that."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 24, 2025 02:26 PM (VlU/R)

307 300 You hate me so much that you won't go swimming just so that it don't wreck your hair what you straightened for no other reason than to impress me because you thought I really really wanted you to have straight hair....

O..... K?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 24, 2025 02:24 PM (06Hmj)

Big Mike won't go swimming because people would see his penis bulge through the swimsuit.

Posted by: XTC at November 24, 2025 02:26 PM (UnA8+)

308 I also have news, I just texted the shoes to you. Hahahah.
Posted by: Piper at November 24, 2025 02:23 PM (pZEOD)

Haha! Of course you did!

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2025 02:26 PM (Ltmlv)

309 Just regular black sneakers, CaliGirl.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 02:26 PM (77rzZ)

310 New Mexico: Man claims encrypted message from cockroach told him to kill two people
. . . .
According to NBC, Hernandez claimed he had to kill the owner in defense of another party abiding in the home: a cockroach.

Hernandez later allegedly told deputies that he also had received ‘an encrypted message in a cockroach' that he ‘needed to kill' the property owner, the warrant says. He added that the property owner allegedly did not like cockroaches.
. . . .
Hernandez also said that he had heard creepy voices coming from the vents suggesting he kill the man before the man killed him.

-
Cockroaches are people too!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 24, 2025 02:26 PM (L/fGl)

311 Don't touch a black womens hair.
Fair warning.

Posted by: Reforger at November 24, 2025 02:26 PM (+Rs+1)

312 309 Just regular black sneakers, CaliGirl.
Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 02:26 PM (77rzZ)


Cool, I was teasing about the bum shaping shoes but they make a shoe you're supposed to be able to slip on without hands and I wondered if they worked or not.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 24, 2025 02:27 PM (vZUXb)

313 You hate me so much that you won't go swimming just so that it don't wreck your hair what you straightened for no other reason than to impress me because you thought I really really wanted you to have straight hair....

O..... K?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 24, 2025 02:24 PM (06Hmj)

Are the white people strait hair police in the room with us right now?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 02:27 PM (dK+Kv)

314 Don't touch a black womens hair.
Fair warning.

Posted by: Reforger at November 24, 2025 02:26 PM (+Rs+1)

First rule of black chick fight club is to peel the wig.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 02:28 PM (dK+Kv)

315 Boy, I really don’t get the chick shoe thing.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 02:28 PM (77rzZ)

316 Roberts needs to get off his ass and start hammering these rogue judges.
Posted by: JackStraw
===
HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!

Posted by: Wow, that is rich at November 24, 2025 02:28 PM (4C4f2)

317 OMG.

Department of War
@DeptofWar
OFFICIAL STATEMENT:

The Department of War has received serious allegations of misconduct against Captain Mark Kelly, USN (Ret.). In accordance with the Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. § 688, and other applicable regulations, a thorough review of these allegations has been initiated to determine further actions, which may include recall to active duty for court-martial proceedings or administrative measures.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 24, 2025 02:28 PM (2ocoG)

318 Imagine Tina Turner with her backup singers/dancers, but with afros or dreads, doing Proud Mary

doesn't work

Posted by: Don Black at November 24, 2025 02:28 PM (AOsQT)

319 Bad Sneakers >>>>>> black sneakers

https://youtu.be/MiBfhFvJdvc

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2025 02:29 PM (Ltmlv)

320 Fair warning.
Posted by: Reforger at November 24, 2025 02:26 PM (+Rs+1)



You asked for it.........


https://youtu.be/mKCbGrh9QUw

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 02:29 PM (Zz0t1)

321 How the fk does every fkin Marxist get a Leftist judge?

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2025 02:30 PM (+qU29)

322 Yea, some of the legal X types think this will be overturned. Roberts needs to get off his ass and start hammering these rogue judges.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2025 02:25 PM (viF8m)

See my 297.

The time has long since passed for the SCOTUS to snatch up the lower courts.

And they haven't. I am not getting a vibe that Roberts has a threshhold that will be "too far."



Posted by: blaster at November 24, 2025 02:30 PM (RoO7G)

323
First rule of black chick fight club is to peel the wig.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 24, 2025 02:28 PM (dK+Kv)


"That's not funny."

- - - - - - The WNBA

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 02:30 PM (Zz0t1)

324 I did see those CaliGirl, but then I forgot about them when I found a pair that looked like my old shoes.

I just keep my shoes laced up all the time, anyway.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 02:31 PM (77rzZ)

325 Nood

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 24, 2025 02:31 PM (vZUXb)

326 Fair warning.
Posted by: Reforger at November 24, 2025 02:26 PM (+Rs+1)



You asked for it.........


https://youtu.be/mKCbGrh9QUw
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 02:29 PM (Zz0t1)

I haven't looked - Please tell me it's Mean Street

Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2025 02:31 PM (Ltmlv)

327 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 24, 2025 02:31 PM (NcvvS)

328 317 OMG.

Department of War
@DeptofWar
OFFICIAL STATEMENT:

The Department of War has received serious allegations of misconduct against Captain Mark Kelly, USN (Ret.). In accordance with the Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. § 688, and other applicable regulations, a thorough review of these allegations has been initiated to determine further actions, which may include recall to active duty for court-martial proceedings or administrative measures.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 24, 2025 02:28 PM (2ocoG)

Nothing will happen.

Posted by: blaster at November 24, 2025 02:31 PM (RoO7G)

329 I mean, to be fair, it's endearing that she doesn't just say the "blah blah everything is racist" line, she goes the extra mile to craft a long preposterous chain of busted causality to go along with it, too.

It's like one of those shaggy dog jokes. It's not the punch line, it's the journey to get there that really matters.

Thanks for being so thoughtful, you smug, wretched, goldbricking, racist asshole.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 24, 2025 02:32 PM (06Hmj)

330
I haven't looked - Please tell me it's Mean Street
Posted by: Doof at November 24, 2025 02:31 PM (Ltmlv)


It's actually the entire album.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 02:32 PM (Zz0t1)

331 Muscle to fat ratio. Very lean and muscular types have trouble swimming as the density of muscle tissue higher than water means that they don't float as easy without constantly swimming. Fat is less dense than water so easier to float up to a point.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 02:23 PM (WDjG6)

---------------

I know it's also generally believed among athletes that blacks tend to have more high-twitch muscles for explosive speed and strength -- whereas whites tend to have more low-twitch muscles, more helpful for endurance.

Have no idea if this impacts swimming; I remember the former USC tailback and Heisman Trophy winner Anthony Davis back in the day once was measured in a water tank and had a fat density of only something like 4%.

Wow!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 24, 2025 02:36 PM (wcolm)

332 Officers in the US Armed Forces are under a special obligation to respect the chain of command.
Aren't they?

-
Not according to Pussy Blitzer.

NEW: Congresswoman Lisa McClain SILENCES Wolf Blitzer after he asks: “Should members of the US military or intelligence community obey what are clearly illegal orders?”

McCLAIN: “You're asking an enlisted person for their opinion on what they think is legal or illegal. That's a pretty slippery slope. Follow your commander in chief. That's the oath that you took.”
. . . .

BLITZER: During WW2, these Nazi officers were following the chain of command, obeying illegal orders and they slaughtered Jews during the Holocaust

LISA McCLAIN: We're a long way from the Nuremberg trials and the slaughtering of Jews. If you want to talk about the slaughtering the Jews we can have that conversation another time

-
P.S. It's not Trump and MAGA who favor killing the Jews.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 24, 2025 02:39 PM (L/fGl)

333 Can't even appoint the correct people, figures. Oh well it was a good run but trump has lost.

Posted by: Bob at November 24, 2025 02:45 PM (YiqZD)

334 333 Can't even appoint the correct people, figures. Oh well it was a good run but trump has lost.
Posted by: Bob at November 24, 2025 02:45 PM (YiqZD)

Be slightly more defeatist.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 24, 2025 02:48 PM (XNKbf)

335 317: this has been repeatedly spammed, but for what?

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 24, 2025 02:49 PM (XNKbf)

336 Not that this "decision" was anything but naked abuse of the legal system, but this is why good attorneys don't wait until the Statute is about to expire to file cases.

Posted by: Zek at November 24, 2025 02:55 PM (5FPX4)

337 .
.
Code of the West.

Posted by: Marooned at November 24, 2025 03:00 PM (kt8QE)

338 Trump is giving illegal orders and you should resist them.
---
Check out every single anti-ICE protest.

They all say what Trump is doing is illegal.
They all yell at the officers that their oath says they shouldn't follow illegal order.

This was 100% meant to say Trump's orders are illegal.

It's like saying, "I didn't yell 'FIRE!' in the theater, I yelled 'I feel like I'm on FIRE!!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 24, 2025 03:13 PM (VlU/R)

339 Are there any judges who aren't left wing?

90% of Lawyers are dimocraps and 100% of Judges are Lawyers.

Do the Math

Posted by: YosemiteSatchmo at November 24, 2025 03:23 PM (NEFaB)

340 Ahhh the SOROS plan for judicial domination has been exposed

Looks to me that this is just the beginning of a no good, lousy. Kick in the nuts weed got Donald.

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at November 24, 2025 03:51 PM (HQUTI)

341 Ace is certainly taking the high road here criticizing the gadfly Democrats for doing exactly what HE is doing here

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at November 24, 2025 03:56 PM (HQUTI)

342 296 Did ShoeOnHead get "hacked" or was it purely intentional?

If the former...someone really needs to teach young women that if there are pictures of you nekkid on your phone that the odds of someone getting them are pretty high...
Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2025 02:18 PM (sKqQm)


Her's seemed intentional. She's never bitched about them being out there nor did she threaten lawsuits.

That I've heard of, anyway. But I don't follow her other than the occasional glance at her nudes when her name comes up in conversation for some reason.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 02:19 PM (Zz0t1)
______

99% of this kind of shit is intentional for PR and likes (and money)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 24, 2025 02:23 PM (iFTx/)

I always thought she was cute. Now I know she has a very good figure to go with.

Posted by: Advo at November 24, 2025 07:43 PM (jO4mz)

343 On days like this, I remember how I felt in 2008 and 2012 when the jug eared Communist won.
Trump may just be a brief respite. The Deep State is like the Terminator, the Borg. Relentless.
Without real election reform, the deep staters will steal enough elections with some RINO's allowed to win to make it less obvious that it's a rigged game.
Damn these commie bastards.

Posted by: LGBTQ+POC, ANTI RACIST HERO at November 24, 2025 08:12 PM (6mk7C)

344 Test

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